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Hello all, hope you can help us out. Bit of a long story so I'll try not to ramble.
Our neighbour's flat was broken into and ransacked hours after he was taken to hospital and his 3 month old kitten, Molly, escaped. Sadly so much bad news all at once had a devastating effect as he was already showing signs of dementia and he was sectioned (we only found that out last week). A week later my partner (another neighbour) saw a sign saying that a black kitten had been found and the story matched up so he took her to my house, my cat (pictured in my icon) had just died (at age 20!) so I still had all the gear.
She settled in nicely, is extremely affectionate and follows me absolutely everywhere. However, a few days later we found Molly. Which left us quite confused. The girl who found the other one was in the process of moving when she found her so we couldn't get in touch. My partner took Molly back to his flat and his other cat does not like her one bit. She was timid after her two weeks outdoors and still shaken after the burglary.
We were planning on getting them both spayed, both were four months old when we found them and hadn't been let out since, the nearest PDSA is on the other side of town and the car is off the road so we kept them indoors to be safe while we got to booking and arranged suitable times and transport.
We'd had them indoors for a few weeks when Molly, still tiny everywhere else, was suddenly huge in the belly. She was already pregnant when we found her!
A few days ago Snowy decided to bury herself amidst a pile of storage boxes, we tried to call her out but she only purred loudly in response. We moved stuff out of the way only to find her nursing a newborn kitten! So she was already pregnant too! All that arranging and trying to keep them indoors and it was already too late for both of them. They both got pregnant at only 4 months, surely that's too young, are there any potential complications we should keep an eye out for?
Snowy's was a single kitten litter, normal for young ones, and the babby is gaining and doing great. Snowy keeps carrying him to wherever I am and making me sit with them which is a bit strange but rather flattering.
Molly's belly is massive now. But she's only a tiny cat and then there's the other cat, a spayed female, who keeps picking fights when she's trying to rest.
We've been gently stroking her and feeling the lumps, they were squirming around a few days ago, it feels like there are quite a few. We're worried that she won't be able to support so many kittens by herself, being so small.
I was wondering, would it be a good idea to get Snowy to foster any kittens to make it easier on Molly? If so, how would I go about doing this? How soon can we get them spayed?
Any other advice would be greatly appreciated.
Our neighbour's flat was broken into and ransacked hours after he was taken to hospital and his 3 month old kitten, Molly, escaped. Sadly so much bad news all at once had a devastating effect as he was already showing signs of dementia and he was sectioned (we only found that out last week). A week later my partner (another neighbour) saw a sign saying that a black kitten had been found and the story matched up so he took her to my house, my cat (pictured in my icon) had just died (at age 20!) so I still had all the gear.
She settled in nicely, is extremely affectionate and follows me absolutely everywhere. However, a few days later we found Molly. Which left us quite confused. The girl who found the other one was in the process of moving when she found her so we couldn't get in touch. My partner took Molly back to his flat and his other cat does not like her one bit. She was timid after her two weeks outdoors and still shaken after the burglary.
We were planning on getting them both spayed, both were four months old when we found them and hadn't been let out since, the nearest PDSA is on the other side of town and the car is off the road so we kept them indoors to be safe while we got to booking and arranged suitable times and transport.
We'd had them indoors for a few weeks when Molly, still tiny everywhere else, was suddenly huge in the belly. She was already pregnant when we found her!
A few days ago Snowy decided to bury herself amidst a pile of storage boxes, we tried to call her out but she only purred loudly in response. We moved stuff out of the way only to find her nursing a newborn kitten! So she was already pregnant too! All that arranging and trying to keep them indoors and it was already too late for both of them. They both got pregnant at only 4 months, surely that's too young, are there any potential complications we should keep an eye out for?
Snowy's was a single kitten litter, normal for young ones, and the babby is gaining and doing great. Snowy keeps carrying him to wherever I am and making me sit with them which is a bit strange but rather flattering.
Molly's belly is massive now. But she's only a tiny cat and then there's the other cat, a spayed female, who keeps picking fights when she's trying to rest.
We've been gently stroking her and feeling the lumps, they were squirming around a few days ago, it feels like there are quite a few. We're worried that she won't be able to support so many kittens by herself, being so small.
I was wondering, would it be a good idea to get Snowy to foster any kittens to make it easier on Molly? If so, how would I go about doing this? How soon can we get them spayed?
Any other advice would be greatly appreciated.