When planting a kitten, one must understand all its further responsibility for the life, health and well-being of the pet. Like all living things, cats have a reproductive instinct that "wakes up" after reaching puberty. To be ready for its manifestations, you need to know in advance how old the cats are "walking".
The onset of puberty of a cat
The main question - at what age do cats start to "walk"? So, to ask a cat cat starts at the age of 6-8 months, especially strongly showing its readiness in the period from February to April. The decline in sexual activity will be observed closer to the middle of autumn. Then follows the rest period, lasting from 2 weeks to 2 months, depending on the conditions of detention.
It is necessary to understand what is so tender age of the cat, which "walks" for the first time, it is better to limit it from mating and getting offspring. Like a very young girl, the cat is not yet completely ready for such physiological stresses.
Firstly, in the process of mating at the age of 15 months, the cat may suffer from its still fragile spine. Secondly, its internal organs are not ready for mating and bearing kittens.
To a love relationship and motherhood, the kitty will be ready when it turns 1 year and 3 months old. Until this time, you need to protect it from the encroachments of cats. And in order to calm her down a little during the period when she is excited and craves male attention, you can give her soothing and anti-stress drops or tablets based on natural extracts of herbs.
How to understand that the cat is "ripe"?
Symptoms of the fact that the cat has puberty and that she began to "walk", are the following changes in her behavior and physiology:
- she starts shouting loudly and unrestrainedly;
- there is increased aggressiveness or, on the contrary, affection, uncharacteristic to the cat before;
- the cat rubs against the floor, wriggles and loudly mews , regardless of the time of day;
- the sexual organ may slightly increase in size, swell;
- there are insignificant allocation, because of what the cat more often and more long puts order in the intimate place.