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Okay so I'm about to be a paranoid cat mom here.. I brought home a (roughly) 6 month old kitten on Tuesday. She wasn't extremely malnourished, but she was a little skinny in weird places, and small for her age, due to being fed strictly cows milk for the last 6 months. Now that I have her on cat food she already looks much better, but her stomach is a bit larger than the rest of her. While she was sleeping one day I was rubbing her tummy and felt weird lumpiness, and upon further inspection just now, I can say there's one lump right behind her left rib, and two lumps behind her right ribs, they are fairly hard, and I felt movement but it didn't really feel like kitten movement (I'm actually comparing to puppy movement here), I'm assuming it was food digesting, given she has gas anyways. But back to the lumps. I'm not concerned that there's something wrong with her, because the vet palpated her stomach a whole bunch just two days ago, (checking for UTI) and didn't mention the lumps. But I'm thinking, not pregnant either, because they didn't say anything (unless they were assuming I already knew?). So anywho, I'm hoping (and assuming) these lumps are just internal organs that I can feel, givin the condition her body is in from the poor diet.
And another note, her nipples are NOT pink.
I did try to get pictures, just for reference, of her belly, but forgive the quality because it's hard to get good pictures of a squirmy cat in a dark room with no one to hold her for you.
And another note, her nipples are NOT pink.
I did try to get pictures, just for reference, of her belly, but forgive the quality because it's hard to get good pictures of a squirmy cat in a dark room with no one to hold her for you.