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We feed our eight cats raw food due to having two very allergic cats and one cat that can't tolerate carbs at all. The food they get is ground whole rabbit (with fur but stomach and intestines removed. This is mixed with water, vitamins B complex and E, taurine, and lard to add fat. One of our...

Thanks for the information! I read up on raw feeding and have already switched our two youngest cats, who have had chronic diarrhea since we adopted them to a commercial raw diet and things have improved greatly for them. I have switched Galatea to all wet food in preparation for ordering...

We adopted a beautiful 1-year-old calico whom we named Galatea at the beginning of 2016.  She has always been active and neither my husband nor I see her eat much.   When we got her she had a very round belly and initially we thought she was pregnant but it turned out to be tapeworms.    Over...

Terribly sad update.   Kitty never produced kittens and by Wednesday my husband and I knew she couldn't possibly be in labor.  She was incontinent and leaking pee everywhere but hated being left alone and even disliked sitting in a puppy pen next to me while I worked.  I spent lots of time with...

Clear to pinkish, which have read is normal. There also seems to be some pee. When we got her home she was terribly constipated and passing lumps of poo that were like rocks. That has cleared up and she is drinking a lot and eating lots of wet food so her hydration is good.

Still no babies!!  She is definitely having near constant discharge and is making fruitless trips to the litter box but she has been doing that since we brought her home.  She is still eating and likes a little bit of wet food and really prefers the dry kitten food.   I have been offering goat's...

One does, but the other does not. In the one that does the blankets are pretty stacked up around the sides so it should be fine.

Got the camp chairs in the closet and we are taking shifts so someone is in here with her all the time. She's still passing chunks of hard poo, which may be part of what is delaying labor. Mammals tend to like to clear their bowels before birth. She is restless and roams back and forth...

She definitely prefers us to be in there with her but it is a large closet and there is nowhere to sit. I was just in there for a few minutes to take down the puppy pen and put her food and litter in the middle of the room so it won't be far away from her chosen birth site. She seems to prefer...

It's like watching a child suffer from illness. It tugs on my heartstrings and makes me worry. She is also so young and tiny, I'm worried about potential complications.

She seems the same and the temp is around 77 degrees now. She is not happy with her closet accommodations and tries to escape every time we open the door. I think she wants to roam around. I also think moving her while in labor was probably a bad idea. She seems stressed.

StefanZ thanks. My husband and I have often marveled during our fostering experience at what kind of awful person could treat cats so poorly and/or surrender such wonderful cats to kill shelters. It really bothers us on a lot of levels. I really wish the rescue provided more support for...

So she went into labor yesterday morning and has had active discharge for approx 24-26 hours now. She came from a shelter so we have very little health history. Her anus is incredibly swollen and occasionally she passes rock-hard chunks of feces. Despite this she doesn't seem to be in...

Moira is a very sweet kitty who seems to want lots of attention. Poor girl has been in a shelter for weeks and then gets transported hours away on the day she goes into labor. She has, in true cat style, snubbed the birthing suite and has deemed the other end of the closet her current...

Well we got her home and into her birthing suite with lots of food and a bowl of KMR. No kittens yet and no obvious signs of distress. The shelter said they were seeing discharge and I saw a little but I doubt she will go into birthing labor until she gets settled here.

Mama kitty (we're calling her Moira) is only 6 months old. Very young for a first time queen. We are hoping for good mothering instincts and a small litter.

The birthing/isolation area is in our bedroom closet so we can give mama kitty some peace and quiet as well as keeping her separated from the other cats for quarantine. It's close enough to check on her often but separated from the rest of the house by a door. KMR is at the house and the...

So the foster kitty we are picking up today was way more pregnant than originally thought.... she is in labor now!  I will be picking her up in about 45 minutes.   I have the "birthing area" all set up in our bedroom closet.   Since we don't know this cat I think it will be difficult to handle...