hi there
on saturday i had to help deliver my best friends cats kittens. we knew she'd started early labour saturday morning & by the time i'd got down there 8pm saturday night the contractions had just started & she became clingy to us (she is very cling to both of us as we both hand reared her & my cat, her brother, long story for another time).
by 12am she was having regular strong contractions & was panting alot. we looked at many websites which told us this was normal. round about 1.30am we saw the amnio sac emerge for a min or 2 & then pop back in. this happened again 10 mins later, then this red bloody stuff trickled out of her. so we though that the sac must have burst. anyway, we saw no sign of kitten emerging untill 2.15 we saw a tail, then that poped back in. saw we knew that this kitten was comming bum first, i had a look on the net which says this happens 30% of the time with first time preg queens. half ahour later & still no kitten, we kept seeing the tail emerge & then pop back in. by 3.15 we still had no kitten but we did see a paw emerge & go back in. the cat was getting very tired & frustrated so we called the vet who told us to help her along. it was me that eneded up doing the sticking the finger up her bum thing & pushing the kitten out. the queen made an awful screaching noise as the kitten emerged but once it was out all the natural instincts kicked in & she cleaned the kitten, chewed the umbilical cord & ate the after birth.
we expected the next kitten to come soon after but we waited for an hour but nothing. she looked rather tired & was just lying down so we decided to leave her & wake up every hour to check on her. i didnt see the second one being born but i walked in on her delivering the 3rd (head first this time).
she only had 3 kittens, we were expecting more & her belly still looked rather big so we decided to take her straight to the emergency vets rather than wait untill monday morning. she & the kittens are all fine but she keeps trying to move them which i know is normal but its the way she is picking them up thats bothering us. she is picking them up by the legs, belly, tail, head & by the throat but not by the scruff of the neck. is this normal & safe?
on saturday i had to help deliver my best friends cats kittens. we knew she'd started early labour saturday morning & by the time i'd got down there 8pm saturday night the contractions had just started & she became clingy to us (she is very cling to both of us as we both hand reared her & my cat, her brother, long story for another time).
by 12am she was having regular strong contractions & was panting alot. we looked at many websites which told us this was normal. round about 1.30am we saw the amnio sac emerge for a min or 2 & then pop back in. this happened again 10 mins later, then this red bloody stuff trickled out of her. so we though that the sac must have burst. anyway, we saw no sign of kitten emerging untill 2.15 we saw a tail, then that poped back in. saw we knew that this kitten was comming bum first, i had a look on the net which says this happens 30% of the time with first time preg queens. half ahour later & still no kitten, we kept seeing the tail emerge & then pop back in. by 3.15 we still had no kitten but we did see a paw emerge & go back in. the cat was getting very tired & frustrated so we called the vet who told us to help her along. it was me that eneded up doing the sticking the finger up her bum thing & pushing the kitten out. the queen made an awful screaching noise as the kitten emerged but once it was out all the natural instincts kicked in & she cleaned the kitten, chewed the umbilical cord & ate the after birth.
we expected the next kitten to come soon after but we waited for an hour but nothing. she looked rather tired & was just lying down so we decided to leave her & wake up every hour to check on her. i didnt see the second one being born but i walked in on her delivering the 3rd (head first this time).
she only had 3 kittens, we were expecting more & her belly still looked rather big so we decided to take her straight to the emergency vets rather than wait untill monday morning. she & the kittens are all fine but she keeps trying to move them which i know is normal but its the way she is picking them up thats bothering us. she is picking them up by the legs, belly, tail, head & by the throat but not by the scruff of the neck. is this normal & safe?
