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This cat is a young female. I would say maybe two years old. I adopted her and her five kittens together as a foster for the kittens and a forever home for the mother.
The mother didn’t produce milk from but the bottom two teats and the previous owner was bottle feeding them, I had to continue on that and then wean them. She ended up dropping them seperate places and then forgetting and pacing around panicked crying. they couldn’t regulate temperature and she almost killed one by doing this so the owner was told to keep her separated from them unless supervised or locked In the bedroom. So they were living separately.
I take her and the kittens home and the week she got here she had saggy tummy that was very narrow looking. She had been skinny and petite alresdy and then looked emaciated after giving birth despite being well fed and worm free / healthy. When I first got her she looked like that. I realised a couple weeks later that she was suddenly heavy and looked pregnant. Quite a change. Her nipples had crusted milk flakes rather large on two and she wasn’t nursing her kittens, and hadn’t for a long time. They were big and pink. Zero chance anything is nursing on her. He stomach feels hard and she doesn’t want us touching it. Shes going into the closet which is not common and it appears to be nesting behaviour.
i asked the previous home and she told me she had placed her back with the male for two days sometime in early November she thinks. She said exact date is not known but sometime around the 10th. He was crying and she was trying to make him happy and thought he missed her until she heard mating sounds and found him on top of her.
She said she was sure it was the once only and the female didn’t seem in heat at all and was actively fighting him. It sounded like he completed the deal though.
Im aggravated and confused.
Is that possible with that timeline?
As far as any other father possibly- NO she is inside only, no access to other cats ever besides him the once and neither house has access points for animals..So no, unless it was her kitten which I don’t think was possible…What age does a male kitten have to be to be fertile and mate? None of them showed any signs of that and most were fixed and then gone at 8 weeks. One remained that was about 11/12 weeks. He had found a home at 8 weeks but was brought back when the woman died about 11ish weeks old. She didn’t fix him. She was with him for a very short period and cleaned him and then left. No noises no signs of her being in heat or mating. He doesn’t show signs of sexual maturity in any way but he’s been given to his new owner after only a couple of days here.
She has an appointment to get spayed in mid January and my vet didn’t have anything sooner when I called and said I wanted to see if she was pregnant. It’s a small family place and they are out with covid. I’m just aggravated and confused on how she wound up pregnant again unless it’s false pregnancy. She seems like it she had gotten pregnant in early Nov she would be so pregnant I could see movement and I don’t and I haven’t felt any. I just want opinions. I thought that the mother had been fixed when I took her in and I wasn’t expecting this.
The mother didn’t produce milk from but the bottom two teats and the previous owner was bottle feeding them, I had to continue on that and then wean them. She ended up dropping them seperate places and then forgetting and pacing around panicked crying. they couldn’t regulate temperature and she almost killed one by doing this so the owner was told to keep her separated from them unless supervised or locked In the bedroom. So they were living separately.
I take her and the kittens home and the week she got here she had saggy tummy that was very narrow looking. She had been skinny and petite alresdy and then looked emaciated after giving birth despite being well fed and worm free / healthy. When I first got her she looked like that. I realised a couple weeks later that she was suddenly heavy and looked pregnant. Quite a change. Her nipples had crusted milk flakes rather large on two and she wasn’t nursing her kittens, and hadn’t for a long time. They were big and pink. Zero chance anything is nursing on her. He stomach feels hard and she doesn’t want us touching it. Shes going into the closet which is not common and it appears to be nesting behaviour.
i asked the previous home and she told me she had placed her back with the male for two days sometime in early November she thinks. She said exact date is not known but sometime around the 10th. He was crying and she was trying to make him happy and thought he missed her until she heard mating sounds and found him on top of her.
She said she was sure it was the once only and the female didn’t seem in heat at all and was actively fighting him. It sounded like he completed the deal though.
Im aggravated and confused.
Is that possible with that timeline?
As far as any other father possibly- NO she is inside only, no access to other cats ever besides him the once and neither house has access points for animals..So no, unless it was her kitten which I don’t think was possible…What age does a male kitten have to be to be fertile and mate? None of them showed any signs of that and most were fixed and then gone at 8 weeks. One remained that was about 11/12 weeks. He had found a home at 8 weeks but was brought back when the woman died about 11ish weeks old. She didn’t fix him. She was with him for a very short period and cleaned him and then left. No noises no signs of her being in heat or mating. He doesn’t show signs of sexual maturity in any way but he’s been given to his new owner after only a couple of days here.
She has an appointment to get spayed in mid January and my vet didn’t have anything sooner when I called and said I wanted to see if she was pregnant. It’s a small family place and they are out with covid. I’m just aggravated and confused on how she wound up pregnant again unless it’s false pregnancy. She seems like it she had gotten pregnant in early Nov she would be so pregnant I could see movement and I don’t and I haven’t felt any. I just want opinions. I thought that the mother had been fixed when I took her in and I wasn’t expecting this.