Humane societies don't always neuter their pets. For example, I volunteer at a local no-kill shelter and we were planning on taking a cat from a humane society. We literally got a call the day we were planning on picking her up to let us know that the cat was pregnant.
So, yes, you should encourage your roommate to call and ask.
My roommate has paperwork saying that both the cats she adopted had been fixed. I'm not necessarily accusing their staff of lying but with your experience volunteering at no-kill shelters, do you think they could be mistaken?
There's always a chance they could have messed up the paperwork, but if that's the case, they're not likely to be able to tell your roommate anything anyways. I'd suggest maybe calling the vet to ask?
Yeah, I think that would be a good idea. I will try to get my roommate to do this. If she were my pet, I would have called the Humane Society or the vet by now.
That said, when I was a kid, we had a female cat that we knew had been spayed, but who liked to slip out of the house and run around with the neighbors' unneutered tom cat. So it's possible she's just a passionate woman. :D
I speak from personal experience...sometimes during a spay they can "miss" something.
We rescued a stray female a while ago - and took her in to have her shots and be spayed. We were told she only had 1/2 a uterus and 1 ovary when they opened her up but that otherwise everything went fine.
Fast forward 2 weeks, when she's acting like she's in heat and presenting to our neutered male kitty (who she was NOT fond of).
Back to the vet...they opened her up again only to find, SURPRISE, she actually had 2 ovaries...but it was misplaced, and thus they missed it. Apparently the smallest bit of anything left behind can be enough to trigger heat...
So...it's possible that she may still have something going on. I'd get it checked.
ovarian remnants
anonymous
September 6 2010, 08:33:20 UTC
sometimes a female cat can continue to come into season after being speyed if during the spey operation a little ovarian tissue remains or is dropped by the surgeon, this tissue will then attach itself again often to another organ and will cause the poor cat to have continual seasons. this is called ovarian remnants. to fix this problem a vet must open the cat right up and search for where the tissue has reattached and remove it. i have had 2 personal experiences of this at the rescue cattery i work at and both cats were fine and lived normal lives afterwards. we have just had another case of a little cat who had been speyed and continued to come on heat when she was opened up she still had a stump of an ovary on one side and one entire ovary remaining on the other side , so her case was a "bad spey"
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So, yes, you should encourage your roommate to call and ask.
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I will encourage her to call the Humane Society.
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Thanks.
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That said, when I was a kid, we had a female cat that we knew had been spayed, but who liked to slip out of the house and run around with the neighbors' unneutered tom cat. So it's possible she's just a passionate woman. :D
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Thank you.
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We rescued a stray female a while ago - and took her in to have her shots and be spayed. We were told she only had 1/2 a uterus and 1 ovary when they opened her up but that otherwise everything went fine.
Fast forward 2 weeks, when she's acting like she's in heat and presenting to our neutered male kitty (who she was NOT fond of).
Back to the vet...they opened her up again only to find, SURPRISE, she actually had 2 ovaries...but it was misplaced, and thus they missed it. Apparently the smallest bit of anything left behind can be enough to trigger heat...
So...it's possible that she may still have something going on. I'd get it checked.
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this is called ovarian remnants.
to fix this problem a vet must open the cat right up and search for where the tissue has reattached and remove it.
i have had 2 personal experiences of this at the rescue cattery i work at and both cats were fine and lived normal lives afterwards.
we have just had another case of a little cat who had been speyed and continued to come on heat when she was opened up she still had a stump of an ovary on one side and one entire ovary remaining on the other side , so her case was a "bad spey"
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