Our Easter Kittens

I have been reading the forums for a couple weeks while waiting for our siamese mix kitty to have a little of babies.  She was supposed to be spay, but our SPCA clinic where we adopted her was under remodel, so she got pregnant while we waited.  On Friday night/Saturday morning, she started licking her backside, and that was the only sign of labor.  She was huge and miserable as she turned 1 year old on Monday.  At 9:20 that night, our baby sitter called to say that she thought Zsa Zsa's water broke while she was snuggling with her on the couch and thinks she was in labor.  We got home at 10:02, exactly when we heard Zsa Zsa cry out and have the first baby.  She had 2 more between 30-40 minutes apart, and then she had the last 3 in 10 minutes!  She did excellent, and I didn't have to really help at all.  She panted for a minute, pushed for a minute, and then cried out right when each baby came out.  NONE of them look like her and NONE look like the cat that we THOUGHT knocked her up.  We live in Hawaii, and we have many many many feral cats and colonies on the island.  My kiddos said it was the best Easter ever waking up to 6 babies!  They are all doing fantastic and have their own personalities all ready. I have already called the SPCA and made her Spay appt 6 weeks from now.  Good luck to the soon to be mommies out there!



Day before...Her belly is laying on the ground!

She can get pregnant again very soon after delivery, and I'm not sure the vets will spay her at 6 weeks post-delivery as she should still be feeding them at that time.  Can you keep her in?  The last thing you want now is a motherless litter of kittens if she goes out and vanishes.

I have already spoken to the SPCA, and it was the recommendation by their vet to spay her at 6 weeks, and they booked the appointment.  We are keeping her in at the moment, but she never vanishes and leaves our yard, ever.  The farthest she ever goes is to our wrap around deck or the flower beds to potty. I have had her since she was 6 weeks old.  She was weaned and litter trained already.  Her mother's milk had dried up.  She was born in a shelter and has never been feral.  

If she goes into call then she might wander, or she might attract a tom to your back yard.  After all she managed to get pregnant once.