My fiancé & I originally had one indoor male cate but when we moved into a new place we started seeing a few stray and taking care of them. Fast forward 2 years and the female has kittens, we ended up adopting the 2 female kittens. Fast forward another year to now and we are caring for a cat colony daily of 25+ cats, continuing to feed the strays outside our home, we've taken in a foster cat that was with the KC Pet Project for 6 weeks and we have our original male but the 2 female kittens we adopted are now pregnant. We were originally keeping the females away from our male but they were able to break in to each others rooms on 2 occasions so here we are. Also I do know we need to get the 3 inside spayed and neutered but due to a major health scare & me losing my job when the owner died we are just now financially stable enough to do so so please no hate on that point.
Anyway, the 2 females are sister that eat together, play together and so forth but in the past few days they have gotten a bit "testy" with each other. The girls have always fought for my attention a bit but in the past couple of days we've had some hissing and swiping. Athena should be having her litter any day now (maybe any hour) and Artemis is probably 10-15 days away. Artemis has always been the one that HAS to sleep right next to me, always wants me to play with her, for example if Athena is being pet Artemis will run over to "take her pets". Over the past 2-3 months this behavior really has died down some but in the past few day it is back with a vengeance. Is this normal? Does anyone have any experience with having 2 pregnant cats that are going to have their litters around the same time? I could really use some advice. Thanks.
Anyway, the 2 females are sister that eat together, play together and so forth but in the past few days they have gotten a bit "testy" with each other. The girls have always fought for my attention a bit but in the past couple of days we've had some hissing and swiping. Athena should be having her litter any day now (maybe any hour) and Artemis is probably 10-15 days away. Artemis has always been the one that HAS to sleep right next to me, always wants me to play with her, for example if Athena is being pet Artemis will run over to "take her pets". Over the past 2-3 months this behavior really has died down some but in the past few day it is back with a vengeance. Is this normal? Does anyone have any experience with having 2 pregnant cats that are going to have their litters around the same time? I could really use some advice. Thanks.
Thank you for helping kitties in need! While caring for 25 kitties by one couple sounds like a lot, the reality, IMO, the situation merely proves that not enough PEOPLE do enough for their own communities in helping to support the stray dog & cat populations which have needed help for generations. Instead, they foist the numerous duties upon the few who are too courageous to shirk good citizenship.
