Hi everyone, i am new here and have 2 female cats Motorboat (my 8 year old spayed female) and Snickers (my newest addition from my boyfriends friend. Non spayed pregnant female not sure age previous owners said a couple of years).
So i got Snickers on April 19th from my boyfriends friend as kind of a spur of the moment. We were visiting and she was very sweet and loving. The friends then said she wasnt even have supposed to have moved with them. My boyfriend fell in love with her and asked me if i liked her so i said yes. I knew she has had atleast 2 litters of kittens and the youngest litter was a couple of months old (they had no idea the birthdate of the last litter). I also know that they had atleast 3 intact male cats. So the day after we got her i called my vet and set up an appointment to get her vaccinated (she was their only cat not vaccinated) and have her checked out to make sure she wasnt pregnant. But before we started at the vets office i noticed that she couldnt keep food down longer then half an hour. Her nipples were larger then my other cats and had a white crust on them (i attributed it to the previous litters).
At the vets office i mentioned everything i knew and had seen. They took xrays and told me she wasnt pregnant and gave her her rabies vaccine. Then the vet comes back in and told me that she has fluid build up in her uterine horns but she wouldnt expect to see (which i dont understand). She also told me that she could send home antibiotics and that she vomiting could subside after spay (which they cant fit her in until oct 1st) or after she has been on the same food for a long period of time (previous owners wouldnt tell me what brand they were feeding). The vet convinced me to run a cbc to see what her white blood cell count was. Then came back and told me everything was normal. I opted to not do the antibiotics and hold off on the other vaccinations and space them out so as not to stress her body out more.
Fast forward another week and a half i start noticing that Snickers belly is getting really round. We bought puzzle treat toys and filled them with food and got a puzzle feeding dish. Both helped with the vomiting and now food is being left in the dish even. I feed my older cat in a seperate room to prevent them fighting over food. I called my vets office back and asked to speak to one of my 2 regular vets (the one i had seen was their newest vet and my gut was telling me that that vet was wrong). I spoke with my normal vet and he said to wait on more vaccinations and he is going to redo the xrays this coming friday (May 28th) for free as he isnt sure why she chose xray versus the ultrasound when we had no idea when she could have been bred.
So now i am positive she is pregnant (without xrays being done yet). So i switched her over to kitten food. She has since become very aggressive with my older cat (just in the last week) to the point she seeks motorboat out to attack. I have a 4 ft. X 4 ft xpen with a top. I currently have it set up in my kitchen (my older cat feels safest on our bedroom and i have nowhere else to put it with no draft as we are in an older home). I have a regular cat bed, food, water, litter bov and a nest box in there and we are alternating which cat gets run of the majority of the house at what time. I put a sheet along the side facing the main part of my kitchen so she feels more secluded.
My questions are:
So i got Snickers on April 19th from my boyfriends friend as kind of a spur of the moment. We were visiting and she was very sweet and loving. The friends then said she wasnt even have supposed to have moved with them. My boyfriend fell in love with her and asked me if i liked her so i said yes. I knew she has had atleast 2 litters of kittens and the youngest litter was a couple of months old (they had no idea the birthdate of the last litter). I also know that they had atleast 3 intact male cats. So the day after we got her i called my vet and set up an appointment to get her vaccinated (she was their only cat not vaccinated) and have her checked out to make sure she wasnt pregnant. But before we started at the vets office i noticed that she couldnt keep food down longer then half an hour. Her nipples were larger then my other cats and had a white crust on them (i attributed it to the previous litters).
At the vets office i mentioned everything i knew and had seen. They took xrays and told me she wasnt pregnant and gave her her rabies vaccine. Then the vet comes back in and told me that she has fluid build up in her uterine horns but she wouldnt expect to see (which i dont understand). She also told me that she could send home antibiotics and that she vomiting could subside after spay (which they cant fit her in until oct 1st) or after she has been on the same food for a long period of time (previous owners wouldnt tell me what brand they were feeding). The vet convinced me to run a cbc to see what her white blood cell count was. Then came back and told me everything was normal. I opted to not do the antibiotics and hold off on the other vaccinations and space them out so as not to stress her body out more.
Fast forward another week and a half i start noticing that Snickers belly is getting really round. We bought puzzle treat toys and filled them with food and got a puzzle feeding dish. Both helped with the vomiting and now food is being left in the dish even. I feed my older cat in a seperate room to prevent them fighting over food. I called my vets office back and asked to speak to one of my 2 regular vets (the one i had seen was their newest vet and my gut was telling me that that vet was wrong). I spoke with my normal vet and he said to wait on more vaccinations and he is going to redo the xrays this coming friday (May 28th) for free as he isnt sure why she chose xray versus the ultrasound when we had no idea when she could have been bred.
So now i am positive she is pregnant (without xrays being done yet). So i switched her over to kitten food. She has since become very aggressive with my older cat (just in the last week) to the point she seeks motorboat out to attack. I have a 4 ft. X 4 ft xpen with a top. I currently have it set up in my kitchen (my older cat feels safest on our bedroom and i have nowhere else to put it with no draft as we are in an older home). I have a regular cat bed, food, water, litter bov and a nest box in there and we are alternating which cat gets run of the majority of the house at what time. I put a sheet along the side facing the main part of my kitchen so she feels more secluded.
My questions are:
- Is there anything else i should be doing?
- Should i worry about her having recieved her rabies vaccine?
- Is the aggression possibly linked to her time getting near?
- Should i worry about her sleeping in her litterbox with her favorite bed in there?
