- Joined
- Mar 30, 2018
- Messages
- 9
- Purraise
- 9
Hi all! Long story short, my cat is heavily pregnant and I’ve never had a pregnant cat before and the impending labor signs are confusing me!
Now for the long story:
I was flooded last year and had to rehome two of my three cats (the two that survived). The older, fixed cat went to my brother. The younger, not-yet-fixed kitten Ripley (about 6 months old) went to a woman who owned a grooming parlor, so I stupidly assumed she’d be responsible as she worked with animals all day.
10 months later I get a call from a pound on the other side of the city.
Ripley was handed in as a stray and my details were still listed on her microchip.
I contacted the person I rehomed her to. The woman dropped Ripley off once she became pregnant for a second time. Ripley was kept in ONE ROOM almost the whole time she was rehomed, kept escaping and getting pregnant, plus kept hiding from the new owner (Ripley was born feral & I tamed her, so she was very shy).
So I went to the pound and claimed my malnourished, dehydrated, flea-infested, flu-infected, very pregnant Ripley.
She has been VERY clingy for the 2 weeks that we’ve had her due to rescuing her, so the affectionate trait of looming pregnancy is hard to see.
She is so think you can feel each back and tail bone so the vet thinks she is 7-8 weeks.
Her nipples are pink but she is still dehydrated which makes milk gland detection hard (I’m stirring water in with all her food).
She’s eating everything that gets placed under her nose as she is only 3kg (so far 4 different brands of wet food in many flavours, mackrel fillets, dried fish, yoghurt drops, Black Hawk grain free kitten kibble & dried lamb).
Ripley keeps grooming herself all over, but that seems to be regular cleaning.
She’s super noisy but that’s just Ripley.
Any suggestions on pregnancy signs for a cat like this? Any suggestions on fattening her up? Anything I should be feeding or not feeding?
Now for the long story:
I was flooded last year and had to rehome two of my three cats (the two that survived). The older, fixed cat went to my brother. The younger, not-yet-fixed kitten Ripley (about 6 months old) went to a woman who owned a grooming parlor, so I stupidly assumed she’d be responsible as she worked with animals all day.
10 months later I get a call from a pound on the other side of the city.
Ripley was handed in as a stray and my details were still listed on her microchip.
I contacted the person I rehomed her to. The woman dropped Ripley off once she became pregnant for a second time. Ripley was kept in ONE ROOM almost the whole time she was rehomed, kept escaping and getting pregnant, plus kept hiding from the new owner (Ripley was born feral & I tamed her, so she was very shy).
So I went to the pound and claimed my malnourished, dehydrated, flea-infested, flu-infected, very pregnant Ripley.
She has been VERY clingy for the 2 weeks that we’ve had her due to rescuing her, so the affectionate trait of looming pregnancy is hard to see.
She is so think you can feel each back and tail bone so the vet thinks she is 7-8 weeks.
Her nipples are pink but she is still dehydrated which makes milk gland detection hard (I’m stirring water in with all her food).
She’s eating everything that gets placed under her nose as she is only 3kg (so far 4 different brands of wet food in many flavours, mackrel fillets, dried fish, yoghurt drops, Black Hawk grain free kitten kibble & dried lamb).
Ripley keeps grooming herself all over, but that seems to be regular cleaning.
She’s super noisy but that’s just Ripley.
Any suggestions on pregnancy signs for a cat like this? Any suggestions on fattening her up? Anything I should be feeding or not feeding?
