Hello!
So, before anyone starts yelling at me that I'm some sort of horrible person, please read my entire situation before commenting.
We had to go out of the state for a week and were forced to leave our pregnant cat with some friends. This morning we came home and we got a call from said frienss that Bagghera had started to give birth.
The friend was not able to keep her for the next few days so we were forces to pick her up today. We left the house immediately after the call and went to get her and the kittens.
When we got to her house she had given birth to three kittens. We took her into the car and placed her in a towel-covered bin with her kittens. I drove as slowly and carefully as I could but she was freaking out, running all over the car, panting, etc. (probably from trauma that she expierenced when she was a kitten... she was transported to us in awful conditions).
When we got home we put her in a separate room where it was nice and quite and she seemed to calm down a little, began purring even, and gave birth to two more kittens.
(I should probably mention now that she is a very young mother and this is her first litter, so she may not have an immediate motherly instinct, but honestly, I just have no idea at this point...)
Shortly after she gave birth to the fifth kitten, she hesitantly left her nest and started sniffing around in closests. That's when I knew she wanted to go to a more secluded area.
I had picked up and moved one of the kittens because it was crawling away from the nest, and because she didn't seem bothered by my interference, I thought it was okay to handle them... I now regret my decision to do that because I'm worried she is going to abandon them...
Once she found a suitable closest she began taking her kittens there one by one, but left one of them at the old nest... I wanted to put it with the others while Bagghera was gone but was told not to by my family members... Although we pointed a heater on the left behind kitten, I think it's still by itself and I feel awful...
She seems like she is spending way too much time away from them... She's wandering the house, meowing, not appearing for hours, and I'm starting to get really worried about the poor kittens...
When the kittens climb on her or try to nurse she gets really impatient and carefully knocks them off of her, like she's annoyed by them.
So, what should I do? Should I wait a few days to see if she'll get used to them? Should I start hand-feeding them? Should I put the fifth kitten into the new nest or will she do it? Why is she acting like this? What can I do? Will the kittens be all right? I'm extremely worried.
So, before anyone starts yelling at me that I'm some sort of horrible person, please read my entire situation before commenting.
We had to go out of the state for a week and were forced to leave our pregnant cat with some friends. This morning we came home and we got a call from said frienss that Bagghera had started to give birth.
The friend was not able to keep her for the next few days so we were forces to pick her up today. We left the house immediately after the call and went to get her and the kittens.
When we got to her house she had given birth to three kittens. We took her into the car and placed her in a towel-covered bin with her kittens. I drove as slowly and carefully as I could but she was freaking out, running all over the car, panting, etc. (probably from trauma that she expierenced when she was a kitten... she was transported to us in awful conditions).
When we got home we put her in a separate room where it was nice and quite and she seemed to calm down a little, began purring even, and gave birth to two more kittens.
(I should probably mention now that she is a very young mother and this is her first litter, so she may not have an immediate motherly instinct, but honestly, I just have no idea at this point...)
Shortly after she gave birth to the fifth kitten, she hesitantly left her nest and started sniffing around in closests. That's when I knew she wanted to go to a more secluded area.
I had picked up and moved one of the kittens because it was crawling away from the nest, and because she didn't seem bothered by my interference, I thought it was okay to handle them... I now regret my decision to do that because I'm worried she is going to abandon them...
Once she found a suitable closest she began taking her kittens there one by one, but left one of them at the old nest... I wanted to put it with the others while Bagghera was gone but was told not to by my family members... Although we pointed a heater on the left behind kitten, I think it's still by itself and I feel awful...
She seems like she is spending way too much time away from them... She's wandering the house, meowing, not appearing for hours, and I'm starting to get really worried about the poor kittens...
When the kittens climb on her or try to nurse she gets really impatient and carefully knocks them off of her, like she's annoyed by them.
So, what should I do? Should I wait a few days to see if she'll get used to them? Should I start hand-feeding them? Should I put the fifth kitten into the new nest or will she do it? Why is she acting like this? What can I do? Will the kittens be all right? I'm extremely worried.
