wrote:
spincycle wrote:

WAIT - she has an appointment tomorrow for her boosters and pre-op, she is
being spayed next week. I wanted to wait until after she was out of heat
because I heard (not sure how true it is) that her reproductive organs are
more swollen during her heat than after.

Yes. Our vet recommended doing the operation when the cat is not in
heat. If the cat turns out to be in hear, they charge a little more for
it.


My question is this - Is it normal for her to "spray" while in heat? (I use
the term spray for lack of a better term.)

I don't know how typical it is, but some females do spray. Kira went
into heat twice before she was spayed. She didn't spray like a male
sprays, but she peed on my bed several times. And one of my mom's cats,
many years ago, would spray. She couldn't aim as high as a male, but
she did manage to make some vertical surfaces.

Yes, I wouldn't say that spraying during heat is typical but it's not
abnormal. If you are having her spayed next week that should be okay.
One of our cats surprised us by going into heat a week before she was
due to be spayed--she was only 5 months old--but the vet said that by
that point (a week after she started showing signs of being in heat)
the hormones would be declining and it wouldn't be a problem to peform
the surgery. She did fine but be aware it might still take a while
after the surgery for her to stop showing signs of being in heat.
-Yngver