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Hi all! This'll be slightly long, and many questions may have been asked before, but I'm in an emergency situation here and need some quick help from experienced cat owners/ lovers.
I adopted a kitten about 2 yrs back - she's a persian cross - she's my first pet ever, and hence I've learnt most on my own.
Ok, so when she hit her first heat cycle I had no clue and the vet told me I can get her spayed but I wanted to wait an year since she was too young and I was not sure if I didn't wanna have her kittens later.
So I put the poor thing through a lot of torture for almost an year before she finally got pregnant by a huge male cat that's always on heat.
Ok, goin a bit back - I was staying in a 2nd floor apartment at that time, and since we couldn't let the door be open at nights, and there was no other way for her to get back in, she ended up being a totally indoors housecat for more than an year.
About 5 months back I moved to this new place which is a ground floor house, and since I and she were new to the place, I had the courtyart and backyard grilled so she could go out and get "some" outdoors but wouldn't go out and get killed or lost.
Well around Dec she did escape once since there was this huge male cat always outside the grill - ALWAYS on heat.
She went out, got pregnant, got lost, and somehow return unscathed but very scared and very dirty after 2 days.
She delivered 2 kittens 1.5 months back - she's always been on kitten food (she never ended up liking the bigger biscuits), and recently I've been feeding her a lot of meat too.
The kittens have finally starting hopping and running all over the house but she keeps a close eye on them all the time.
Here are where my problems start.
The grilling around the house won't allow her to go out, so I am very worried that as soon as the kittens can jump to the window level (which seems just a coupla days ahead), they might escape out of the house since the grilling is not fine enough to stop them - but she won't be able to get out and get them back - so I got really worried and started opening one window in my kitchen from where she can go all the way out, so she gets used to the outdoors by the time they can escape and she can get them back if they do.
They'r still feeding on her milk - tho they've started having a very little bit of kitty biscuits and lots of water.
I was assured by websites and some bad docs (u get a lot of good vets for dogs in my city but I've not found anyone yet good with cats) that she won't get back on heat till she's feeding the kittens, and taking care of em.
Last night the big male cat was back and she ran out again, and I let nature be - I have no idea what happened till I heard a huge ruckus in my kitchen - rushing there I saw the tom cat had come into the house through the same window and she was fighting very bad with him (this is the first time I saw her aggressive side - she's the sweetest cat I've seen) - he's three times her size but he ran for his life and she was trying to go after her, but I held her back and sealed the window again.
She was freaked for a coupla hours and very scared - I'm guessing that since she had gone out, and may have mated tho she was not on heat till yesterday, the fact that he still tried to come in could mean that she was really not on heat and he tried to come in to kill the kittens so she comes back on heat faster - I've heard tomcats do that - is that possible?
Now I hit the panick button and thought I need to get her spayed immdly - so it turns the tomcat away and he does not try something like that again.
I called a vet today and he assured me I can go ahead with the spaying and since I stay alone - I have to get it done tomorrow so I can take care of her over the weekend, and help her recover. The doc assured everything's fine, till I finally tracked a vet whose supposed to specialise with cats and this is what he had to say :
Apply something bitter on her teats so they stop feeding with her and focus on their kitty food only - since the mammary glands still producing milk will/ may cause some infection after the spaying. Also if they still suckle on her after the operation, they may damage/ open her sutures.
His advice is to separate the kittens from the mum for a while (at least a week) and then go ahead with the spaying.
My fear is time - by then they'd be able to jump outta the bedroom window and may escape outta the grill - I can't open the kitchen window so she can go out too, incase they do because of what happened last night with the tomcat cooming in (and maybe wanting to kill the kittens - the crazy aggression I saw in her kinda confirm my fear).
Apologies for the long post, but I could really use some advise as not too many people keep pet cats in this country - and due to lack of real proffessionals catering to cats, I'm kind of lost with the different advise and info coming from both the docs.
The first doc is definitely younger and doesn't have much experience with cats - also he will be charing me almost one third of the spaying cost the other doctor quoted.
Should I seal the entire house so they can't go out at all till they completely stop feeding and then wait a week and get her spayed, or can I go ahead right now?
Also, should I still leave the window to the entire outdoors open - would the male cat try killing the kittens? I really thought her getting used to the outside before the kittens start going out would be a good idea.
Right now though both the kittens are 1.5 months old almost, they still feed on her milk mostly.
I'm planning to keep both the kittens so I can't really separate them and wait for the mammary glands to subside, etc.
Can someone help? I have to take a decision by tonight cause if I'm going ahead with the spaying - it has to be tomorrow.
Please let me know if there's any other info I should provide - I am really worried and I can't lose the cat or the kittens to anything, including a (maybe greedy n less intelligent) doc - this guy has confirmed there will be no problems spaying her right now.
Also, if I get her spayed I can take care of her only over the initial 2 days - that's the weekend tomorrow as I have to be back at work on Monday.
Please help!Please don't ask me to go through other threads - I'm really pressed for time and I can't screw her up due to lack of info - please post here your advise and help me make a decision by tonight.
Really really appreciate! Thanks.
Navneet
I adopted a kitten about 2 yrs back - she's a persian cross - she's my first pet ever, and hence I've learnt most on my own.
Ok, so when she hit her first heat cycle I had no clue and the vet told me I can get her spayed but I wanted to wait an year since she was too young and I was not sure if I didn't wanna have her kittens later.
So I put the poor thing through a lot of torture for almost an year before she finally got pregnant by a huge male cat that's always on heat.
Ok, goin a bit back - I was staying in a 2nd floor apartment at that time, and since we couldn't let the door be open at nights, and there was no other way for her to get back in, she ended up being a totally indoors housecat for more than an year.
About 5 months back I moved to this new place which is a ground floor house, and since I and she were new to the place, I had the courtyart and backyard grilled so she could go out and get "some" outdoors but wouldn't go out and get killed or lost.
Well around Dec she did escape once since there was this huge male cat always outside the grill - ALWAYS on heat.
She went out, got pregnant, got lost, and somehow return unscathed but very scared and very dirty after 2 days.
She delivered 2 kittens 1.5 months back - she's always been on kitten food (she never ended up liking the bigger biscuits), and recently I've been feeding her a lot of meat too.
The kittens have finally starting hopping and running all over the house but she keeps a close eye on them all the time.
Here are where my problems start.
The grilling around the house won't allow her to go out, so I am very worried that as soon as the kittens can jump to the window level (which seems just a coupla days ahead), they might escape out of the house since the grilling is not fine enough to stop them - but she won't be able to get out and get them back - so I got really worried and started opening one window in my kitchen from where she can go all the way out, so she gets used to the outdoors by the time they can escape and she can get them back if they do.
They'r still feeding on her milk - tho they've started having a very little bit of kitty biscuits and lots of water.
I was assured by websites and some bad docs (u get a lot of good vets for dogs in my city but I've not found anyone yet good with cats) that she won't get back on heat till she's feeding the kittens, and taking care of em.
Last night the big male cat was back and she ran out again, and I let nature be - I have no idea what happened till I heard a huge ruckus in my kitchen - rushing there I saw the tom cat had come into the house through the same window and she was fighting very bad with him (this is the first time I saw her aggressive side - she's the sweetest cat I've seen) - he's three times her size but he ran for his life and she was trying to go after her, but I held her back and sealed the window again.
She was freaked for a coupla hours and very scared - I'm guessing that since she had gone out, and may have mated tho she was not on heat till yesterday, the fact that he still tried to come in could mean that she was really not on heat and he tried to come in to kill the kittens so she comes back on heat faster - I've heard tomcats do that - is that possible?
Now I hit the panick button and thought I need to get her spayed immdly - so it turns the tomcat away and he does not try something like that again.
I called a vet today and he assured me I can go ahead with the spaying and since I stay alone - I have to get it done tomorrow so I can take care of her over the weekend, and help her recover. The doc assured everything's fine, till I finally tracked a vet whose supposed to specialise with cats and this is what he had to say :
Apply something bitter on her teats so they stop feeding with her and focus on their kitty food only - since the mammary glands still producing milk will/ may cause some infection after the spaying. Also if they still suckle on her after the operation, they may damage/ open her sutures.
His advice is to separate the kittens from the mum for a while (at least a week) and then go ahead with the spaying.
My fear is time - by then they'd be able to jump outta the bedroom window and may escape outta the grill - I can't open the kitchen window so she can go out too, incase they do because of what happened last night with the tomcat cooming in (and maybe wanting to kill the kittens - the crazy aggression I saw in her kinda confirm my fear).
Apologies for the long post, but I could really use some advise as not too many people keep pet cats in this country - and due to lack of real proffessionals catering to cats, I'm kind of lost with the different advise and info coming from both the docs.
The first doc is definitely younger and doesn't have much experience with cats - also he will be charing me almost one third of the spaying cost the other doctor quoted.
Should I seal the entire house so they can't go out at all till they completely stop feeding and then wait a week and get her spayed, or can I go ahead right now?
Also, should I still leave the window to the entire outdoors open - would the male cat try killing the kittens? I really thought her getting used to the outside before the kittens start going out would be a good idea.
Right now though both the kittens are 1.5 months old almost, they still feed on her milk mostly.
I'm planning to keep both the kittens so I can't really separate them and wait for the mammary glands to subside, etc.
Can someone help? I have to take a decision by tonight cause if I'm going ahead with the spaying - it has to be tomorrow.
Please let me know if there's any other info I should provide - I am really worried and I can't lose the cat or the kittens to anything, including a (maybe greedy n less intelligent) doc - this guy has confirmed there will be no problems spaying her right now.
Also, if I get her spayed I can take care of her only over the initial 2 days - that's the weekend tomorrow as I have to be back at work on Monday.
Please help!Please don't ask me to go through other threads - I'm really pressed for time and I can't screw her up due to lack of info - please post here your advise and help me make a decision by tonight.
Really really appreciate! Thanks.
Navneet