Is my cat pregnant?

Melodie said:

 
Awww  Is your cat pregnant?

My last cats litter was ginger,white and black calico's because their father was a ginger and white tabby and the mom was a black and white tuxedo so probably your cats litter will turn out the same  

 ginger, white and black kitties !!!

Send me pictures of sophies litter when they are born- they must be sooo adorable

 

I have looked up a lot of information about  pregnant cats and I found out a cool website where you could find out when your kittens will be born

- here is a link

http://www.showcatsonline.com/due_date_calculator.htm

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To Sophia

Oh sorry everyone

My cat was not pregnant after all      She started a heat cycle for a couple of days   and she was also calling other Tom cats

Don't be sorry! Please do consider getting her spayed though. The surgery is quite safe, and she will be healthier and happier. She is at risk of sexually transmitted diseases if she's mating with random males, not to mention uncomfortable due to hormone surges.

I do understand that you are worried she may die from the spay procedure however getting mommy cat spayed is very important. I work for my local municipal shelter and during kitten season we get many older cats surrendered to us because the family wants a new baby kitten. This is heartbreaking to see not only because the surrendered cat will cry for days and go off their food, but knowing that in a few years they will most likely repeat the process. Older cats are harder to find homes for so many get euthanized each year. I know having kittens is very fun but consider becoming a foster for your local shelter and helping shelter kitties have a nice place to have and raise the babies. Shelters everywhere need people like that! If a pregnant cat comes into a shelter if no foster home can take her, she is spayed and the kittens are aborted no matter how far along mommy cat is. This breaks the hearts of shelter workers everywhere and since you know how to deliver kittens you could do so much good for homeless animals I have had foster cats as small as 2 pounds get spayed and all but one have recovered without complications. The one with complications got an infection and is currently on antibiotics to treat her. Vets will do a procedure to check against allergic reactions to the anesthesia which will determine if she will live through the surgery. If you take her to a low cost spay/neuter clinic the vets are wonderful and you don't have to pay tons of money. And remember too that while people may want the cute little kitten you are selling now, when that kitten grows up and the owner doesn't want the responsibility of cat ownership, your sweet little baby could end up in a shelter with no one to love her. There is a huge pet overpopulation problem in the United States and every kitten that you allow to be born you are contributing to this. Millions of cats and kittens are euthanized each year no matter how hard shelter workers try to save each and every one. As one of those workers I beg you to get your kitty spayed. Also when female cats are unspayed they are 50% more likely to develop cancer. Cancer would take your sweet kitty from you and you can prevent that. At the shelter we get in stray cats that have had litter after litter of kittens and their poor bodies are so damaged that almost no one wants to adopt them. With every kitten you allow to be born, another will die scared and alone and sick at a shelter.

Sorry she isn't going to be having kittens. Now would be a good time to go ahead and get her spayed. You no longer have the worry about aborting kittens.

Yes, I am planning to get her spayed but i think she is pregnant again

I know a ginger and white tom outside that was the father of her first litter he has been crying at my door for her, for  a few days, my cat is also in heat so i try to keep her indoors but this morning i was half asleep in my bed but the door was left open because my friend was back from vacation and she was going to get her bags and her suitcases. I started to hear these weird loud crying sounds coming from my cat and and the tom outside, when i came to the door my cat ran inside because she heard me coming, i dont know what happend out there but the tom was still crying at my door afterwards and after a few hours my cat seemed that she was out of heat, she is also sleepig alot.

She can still be spayed at this point.

A spay at this point would be the best choice.  You don't know if this pregnancy is going to take, and she is hardly pregnant if at all.  Can you get her in this week?

Yes and i have already booked an appointment with the vet to get her spayed on wednesday.

But why euthanize the older cats just because no one wants them? That is not what shelters are for.. Didn't you have a choice?

Getting her spayed on Wednesday won't be a problem at all!  Please let us know how it goes.

Shelters euthanize because there is no room for all the cats.  It's tragic, really.  They put the less adoptable cats to sleep, which are often older.  There just isn't enough space at most shelters.

The shelter I work for has a 95% save rate because we work super hard. Only 123 animals either died or were euthanized in our care last year. Many shelters do euthanize simply to reduce the numbers of animals they deem unadoptable. I hate that shelters do that and I'm glad the one I work for doesn't.

Were the cats in the shelter because they were in a bad condition? I am just saying because what if all those cats that were euthanized were strays because  cats were born to live outside and they can live outside without any complications but to be brought to a shelter when your life as a stray was fine, you sadly get euthanized just because your older than the other cats. That is really terrible indeed. I really hate shelters that do that. Did you know that the RSPCA put down a cat for having long hair? Shelters should not be picking up stray cats, because their life is completely fine ( unless they have health problems) The real reason why so many cats are being euthanized every year is because they go picking up completely healthy strays and then lock them up in a shelter, and when the shelters get full up of strays then they get put down for no reason.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...t-sign-consent-form-inspector-accused-animal-

Spaying a cat is ok if you cant afford to keep the kittens and you might throw them on the streets to be abandoned or your cat is having some terrible sickness,but spaying a pregnant cat is not OK because those kittens in the uterus could be completely healthy and maybe will grow into very healthy cats, to me,its killing cats and its like getting cats close to extinction.

I don't think cats are very close to extinction at all . There aren't enough homes for all the cats that exist now, it's very sad.

True ferals are OK on the streets, as long as they're spayed/neutered (females eventually die in birthing, plus there's a 90% mortality rate for the poor kittens, lots of suffering, and unneutered males fight until they die of disease or infection).

But a dumped housepet is NOT fine on the streets . They die of starvation or predators, scared and alone. They weren't raised on the streets and don't know how to survive.

Willowy said:

I don't think cats are very close to extinction at all . There aren't enough homes for all the cats that exist now, it's very sad.

True ferals are OK on the streets, as long as they're spayed/neutered (females eventually die in birthing, plus there's a 90% mortality rate for the poor kittens, lots of suffering, and unneutered males fight until they die of disease or infection).

But a dumped housepet is NOT fine on the streets . They die of starvation or predators, scared and alone. They weren't raised on the streets and don't know how to survive.

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True. There are not much homes left for cats but I mean that if shelters don't stop picking up healthy strays the cat population will go down. I really hate the RSPCA shelters because they go around charging people or putting them in jail because they think the animals are being treated cruelly , sometimes people with not a lot of money own a animal and love Them when they don't have enough money to care for and feed them and then the RSPCA comes and charges that person just because of that when they don't know how much they loved the animal, then they get charged, put in jail or probably end up on the streets.

Now which one is better?

Being in animal shelter?
Or to be free outside?

I don't totally disagree with you, but there are issues with cats outside too. For one, they are not all healthy. They don't have access to reliable or healthy food, they aren't vaccinated or fixed, and they fight, which spreads illness. Kittens born outside have a vet high liklihood of dying, from lack of care, from elements, from predators, etc. That said, intact cats are almost constantly breeding and it's a miserable life.

I do believe that TNR colonies should be left alone, but don't believe that leaving all cats on the street is the answer.

How did the spay go?

talkingpeanut said:

How did the spay go?

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It was alright [emoji]128518[/emoji] Well, my cat hissed and tried to fight the vet when they were trying to give her an injection to put her to sleep, she is doing fine now [emoji]128516[/emoji] she had to stay at the vet for a day to recover and now she has come home with a cute cone over her head so she does not eat the stitches.

talkingpeanut said:

I don't totally disagree with you, but there are issues with cats outside too. For one, they are not all healthy. They don't have access to reliable or healthy food, they aren't vaccinated or fixed, and they fight, which spreads illness. Kittens born outside have a vet high liklihood of dying, from lack of care, from elements, from predators, etc. That said, intact cats are almost constantly breeding and it's a miserable life.

I do believe that TNR colonies should be left alone, but don't believe that leaving all cats on the street is the answer.

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By the way, what is a TRN colony ?

That's great! She may not need to wear the cone if she's good about not pulling on the stitches. Did you get your boy looked at too?