Anywhere from 6 months on.
Female cats typically go into heat during the spring and summer months, but they can also experience heat cycles throughout the year.
The only way to prevent pregnancy in cats is to spay them. This also stops the very stressful heat cycles.
No, unspayed cats will continue to go through heat cycles throughout their lives until they are spayed. Spaying a cat involves removing the reproductive organs responsible for heat cycles, preventing them from going into heat.
No, desexed female cats do not go into heat. Spaying (desexing) involves removing the reproductive organs that are responsible for the heat cycle, so once a female cat is spayed, she will no longer experience heat cycles.
Cats do not have periods, they have heat cycles where they are fertile and ready to mate for about a week, every two to three weeks. Queens can come back into heat as soon as the kittens are weaned, some as soon as kittens are born.
Female cats are fixed through spaying surgery by removing their ovaries and uterus, which prevents them from becoming pregnant and eliminates their heat cycles.
Yes, female cats do indeed have "seasons". Female cats will go into heat all year round, but the months between March to October is generally considered "the breeding season." Heat cycles can start as early as the fourth or fifth month of a kitten's life, and will continue until you breed her or spay her. A cat is usually in heat for a week or two, and will start again every two to three weeks. A Queen will come into call (heat) all over again once the her kittens are weaned, leaving very little time for a female cat to regain her strength after looking after one litter and coming into call again.
Cats purr at about 26 cycles every second.
Male cats do not go into heat like female cats do. Female cats go into heat to attract male cats for mating and reproduction. Male cats are always ready to mate and do not have a specific heat cycle.
Male cats do not go into heat like female cats do. Female cats go into heat to attract male cats for mating, while male cats are always ready to mate when a female cat is in heat.
No. Menopause is the period when women stop menstruating, and since cats do not menstruate in the first place, they cannot go through menopause. Only primates, such as humans and chimps, menstruate. (Cats will bleed a little while in heat, but this is part of the estrous cycle, which is not the same. Estrus in cats is closer to the period right after menstruation in humans.) They don't even go through menopause in the sense of ceasing to experience estrus; cats remain fertile throughout life.
No, male cats do not meow when they are in heat. Only female cats exhibit vocal behavior when they are in heat.