What if a female cat in heat is not spayed?
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An unspayed cat in heat tends to lose appetite, howl at night, and wander off; long heat can cause false pregnancy. Repeated heat keeps stimulating estrogen, easily causing pyometra, mammary hyperplasia, breast tumors, and ovarian cysts, affecting lifespan.
If you will not spay, take the cat for regular checkups as it ages and manage its heat-period care.