Hi, I have a beautiful Hymalayan cat and after a long search for a male she would accept she became pregnant. I was there during mating and it happened four times within 24 hour period and then I took him back to his house. The pregnancy went smoothly, kittens were moving and out of nowhere I discovered still born kitten on the living room floor six days before her due date. It was at three o'clock in the morning so I turned the lights on to find momma cat and discovered another baby on the floor still in the sack and the placenta attached. The first one was only 47grams and totally hairless, but the other one was fully developed weighing 65 grams with hair all over his body. I was devastated, but in the morning I felt more movement in the belly so I was like a hawk watching over her making sure she wouldn't hide anywhere. She was completely comfortable, eating and drinking as before. She didn't seem to care about the babies as she probably had no idea what they were as this was her first pregnancy. Two days later she meowed her head off forcing me to sit on the couch next to her and five minutes later her contractions started and a live kitten was born ten minutes later, another one followed in thirty minutes. Both were only 58 grams with no hair on their feet belly and most of their heads were also pink. They were so tiny so I had to help them every hour to find and stay on the nipple which was about 20 times harder than having a newborn human baby. The mother took really good care of them, but still one day later one stopped eating so I tried to give her formula and it got terrible colic and didn't get out of it. It was so painful to watch her suffer. The other baby took three days to finally start gaining weight. She is now ten days old and weighs 135grams. So the question here is if any one of you might know of any reasons why the kittens were so far appart in development while inside. I would love her to have more kittens in the future, but if it's something that is likely to happen again, I wouldn't risk it.
Thank you all ahead of time.
Thank you all ahead of time.