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Newborn kitten UPDATE!!! They are nursing!!!! PICS ADDED!
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Thats great that she's being a good Mom now.
You should make plans to get her spayed in the next six weeks though, or else you'll have another litter of kittens before you know what is going on. If she's had a few litters its probably time to retire her and allow her to live her life without having kittens every four to six months.
And such beautiful babies too.
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Being farm-based, we want to keep 5-7 cats at all times. Our goal reached, spaying is in order.
Funny thing about this...we lost our Tom to the cold last winter. Do ya think the neighbors may be harboring a Tom cat?
I most certainly KNOW they are! I And obviously, it hasn't been neutered.
Being farm-based, we want to keep 5-7 cats at all times. Our goal reached, spaying is in order.
Funny thing about this...we lost our Tom to the cold last winter. Do ya think the neighbors may be harboring a Tom cat?
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Chances are, in my experience, she will probably never be a good mom, so even if you were hoping for a few more, I let someone else be mom and get her spayed.
We had a cat one year, she and her sister were pg, the sister (can't remember her name) had her kittens first, 4 big healthy babies, and she was an excellent mother! The other one, Cali, had her six scattered all over the porch, w/ no idea what they were! We put the litters in carriers side by side. Cali desided she wanted to be a good mom to, and she was! To the other cat's kittens, didn't realizes she wasn't feeding her own, til to late for one (I worked w/ that baby for 2 weeks, but she just didn't thrive). We put them together after that (didn't do that before because the first ones were a week older, and already bigger at birth), and they did fine after that, and that was Cali's last litter.
My cat Teddy is the only survivor in a litter of 5. Poor babies had so much going against them. They were premies, born w/ only peach fuzz for hair, lost one at 6 days old. Kept them and mom in crate, but if crate was left open she'd scatter them around the house, and not care for any of them. These were my sister's and it was never completely clear how each one left, but only two remained by 7 weeks when I got Teddy, due to both a bad owner and bad mama cat. The other one disappeared a week or so later, AFTER my sister told me she thought she was deaf, and I told her to keep her in!
Alittle away from the topic, but my mom is a home health aide and one of her clients has two mama cats, and one wanna be (they think she lost her litter) that are raising two litters together and she said the mom's (all three) like to bring the kittens into the living room when they are in there, one cat will bring a kitten and put it on the couch, then another will take that kitten back to the box and swap it for a different one. And at bedtime they gather them back up and put them back in the box. It's funny to hear Mom tell about them, she said they are way to big to be carried around, they have to drag them, and the kittens seem completely annoyed w/ the whole process. But good moms apparently!
We had a cat one year, she and her sister were pg, the sister (can't remember her name) had her kittens first, 4 big healthy babies, and she was an excellent mother! The other one, Cali, had her six scattered all over the porch, w/ no idea what they were! We put the litters in carriers side by side. Cali desided she wanted to be a good mom to, and she was! To the other cat's kittens, didn't realizes she wasn't feeding her own, til to late for one (I worked w/ that baby for 2 weeks, but she just didn't thrive). We put them together after that (didn't do that before because the first ones were a week older, and already bigger at birth), and they did fine after that, and that was Cali's last litter.
My cat Teddy is the only survivor in a litter of 5. Poor babies had so much going against them. They were premies, born w/ only peach fuzz for hair, lost one at 6 days old. Kept them and mom in crate, but if crate was left open she'd scatter them around the house, and not care for any of them. These were my sister's and it was never completely clear how each one left, but only two remained by 7 weeks when I got Teddy, due to both a bad owner and bad mama cat. The other one disappeared a week or so later, AFTER my sister told me she thought she was deaf, and I told her to keep her in!
Alittle away from the topic, but my mom is a home health aide and one of her clients has two mama cats, and one wanna be (they think she lost her litter) that are raising two litters together and she said the mom's (all three) like to bring the kittens into the living room when they are in there, one cat will bring a kitten and put it on the couch, then another will take that kitten back to the box and swap it for a different one. And at bedtime they gather them back up and put them back in the box. It's funny to hear Mom tell about them, she said they are way to big to be carried around, they have to drag them, and the kittens seem completely annoyed w/ the whole process. But good moms apparently!
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