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During covid I decided to foster a mother cat and kittens for our local animal shelter as a way to help during the pandemic, but mostly to distract and entertain my kids. It’s been great. The kittens started off tiny and adorable and grew into little devils running rampant around the house. They’ve all been adopted, but we still have the mother cat as a foster and with her kittens adopted she’s gone back into heat (she’s scheduled for spaying at the shelter next week). Needless to say, having a cat in heat in the house is starting to get to me. She crawls around on her belly with her back arched and her butt in the air. She definitely has an itch she can’t scratch. At night she looks out the window and yodels. I can definitely relate and will probably start yodeling out the window with her. She’s desperate for attention and not getting any. If she were allowed to run free, she’d be surrounded by male cats in a heartbeat. It’s primal, powerful and poetic.