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Hi everyone, We took in a stray cat a few months that was pregnant. She's had her kittens now and they're about 10 weeks old. Now we need to spay the mum. Her surgery is scheduled for tomorrow morning but she's been in heat for a couple of days and I'm reading around online I'm not sure if...

My cat had 3 kittens 27 days ago. They've all gained weight well. Then today, one of them lost 5 grams. It's the first time one of them lost weight. I weighed her again a few hours laster and she'd lost another 5. I've seen her feeding lots of times and she's still active and playing like...

My kittens are 24 days old now, and I think that means it's time to worm them. What I'd love to know is when to worm them and exactly what kind of treatment I should use? I don't want to use the wrong thing...

Hi everyone. My rescued semi-stray cat had 3 kittens 18 days ago, and I'm still not sure of their sexes. This is the only one I've named so far, because I wasn't sure if I was keeping or rehoming the others. This is Sweep and he likes to sleep: And here's a rear shot of Sweep, and I always...

My cat had 3 kittens 17 days ago. One of them has a problem with his eyes. They stick shut when he sleeps. If I wash them with damp cotton wool they open up right away and he looks fine. There's no pus or anything else coming from the eye. Sometimes there's a tiny bit of crust near the eye...

And it all happened so fast! Out of the blue today she was more friendly than she'd ever been. Then this afternoon she just got in her box which she'd ignored for the past 3 weeks. 10 minutes later she had her first kitten! Over an hour she had 3 in total. Now it's been an hour and she hasn't...

My best estimate is that my cat Fluffers is 62 days pregnant today. Last night she was lying on the kitchen floor and when she walked away there was a puddle of thick clear jelly type stuff. Is that her mucus plug? I always thought it had a little bit of red or pink in it, but this was totally...

I've been wondering lately how kittens are positioned inside the mother? My cat Fluffers is around 53 days pregnant and I can now feel moving and kicking inside her stomach. Sometimes I try to gently feel how many kittens there are inside but because I don't know where the kittens are it's...

I see a lot of advice about keeping newborn kittens warm, but there's also a lot of warnings about also not keeping them too warm. So what is the ideal temperature? What should the room temperature be, and should the nest be much warmer? I've got a digital thermometer so I'll be able to keep...

I'm trying to make the best plans for my cat who will be having her kittens in about 2 weeks. Would it be okay if I moved the nesting box 24 hours after she has her kittens? I'd like her to have the kittens in the spare room, which I could make empty so that she would be forced to use the...

Hi everyone. My cat Fluffers, who was semi-wild until a few months ago, is pregnant. But I'm still not sure how many weeks she is. My original guess would make her about 8 weeks at the moment, but then I thought about it again and felt like she is now more like 6 weeks. But not being sure is...

Hi everyone, I've read of a couple of people who put their nesting box inside a big dog crate, and sometimes closed it for the kittens' safety. Is this a bad idea for any reason? My cat Fluffers loves sleeping in my bedroom, and it'll be the warmest room in my house during the night. But my...

Hi everyone. Love the forum and hoping you can help. There's a family a couple of streets away from me who have about 8 cats, maybe more. They take terrible care of them: never let them inside, never feed them apart from scraps of food thrown out into garden, none of them are neutered, and so...