Please Help Cat has just had kittens!!

mumoffour77

I think xmas will be fine!!
We live in a huge bungalow, and have 3 christmas trees, so we are able to spare one or two!!:D

Thanks Tanith, it has settled down now.......panic stations this am tho!!

mumoffour77

~Chameleon~ wrote: »

The beauty of keeping home-bred kittens is that you will have known them all their lives and be assured they've had the best possible start in life. Thats lovely!!

My two elderly cats are mum and daughter and I also had their brother and mother/grandmother before them! Unfortunately their brother was killed in an RTA some years ago.thats so sad[/QUOTE]

hethmar

She will leave them at some point, if only to have a wee or get a drink - if you have the cosy lovely box ready for them and she finds them in there when she gets back, more and likely she will stay put wherever you have put the box.

We had a stray cat have babies in our spare bedroom once, she must have nipped in when the back door was left open, poor thing. We didnt know what to do, so left her to it, but one kitten died because she hadnt removed the covering from its face when it was born -

But we did keep her and we had her spayed and we found good homes for the 3 kittens. She stayed with us for ages then one day wandered off and never returned. We lived in the country then, so it may be she went back to being the feral cat she had once been.

jess1974

Mumoffour i am soooooooooo jealous, i love cats and kittens, my beautiful fluffy cat was 6 weeks old when we got her(to early i know), she has grown up with my children, who love and adore her.
best wishes to your family and the new additions xxxx

picklepick

Congrats granny!

Cant see thats its been mentioned already but forgive me if im pointing out the obvious...

make sure that you lock the catflap, if you have one, and make sure that you provide mum and kits with a nice large litter tray so she doesnt have to leave them. she'll also need one so that she can litter train them as they get a bit older.

good luck!

patchwork_cat

You said she might move them outside, my advice is not to let mum out at the moment as she may well move them. She will almost certainly move them in a day or two as that is an instinct to protect the kits from predators (they move them away from any blood that may still be around).

This evening if she will let you you may need to clean her up a bit. My cats when we had kittens always came to tell us and ask for help during labour. They would always let me handle their kits and in fact we supplementary fed one litter.

I have delivered all our kits, frequently in the middle of the night, they always came and told me! One made me follow her to my DD's wardrobe and another tried to have them on our bed!
Congrats.

Quick tip though although she will need plenty of water don't put the water bowl too near her -a breeder friend of mine found a kitten drowned in the water bowl - it had remained attached to mum when she went for a drink and dropped off in the bowl. I would move mum and kits down to somewhere on the floor ina quiet corner as you don't want mum jumping down witha kitten attached.

nikki702

How are they doing?

mumoffour77

they are doing ok:)
will get some photos up tomorrow!
mummy came into the sitting room last night so obviously felt comfortable leaving her babies for an hour!!

bank_of_slate

congratulations on your beautiful kittens!
Can't wait to see more pictures.
...Linda xx