The only way to prevent your female kitty from giving birth to babies or your male from impregnating countless females is to have your little one spayed or neutered. You might think that keeping your furry friend indoors, away from other cats, might prevent pregnancy or stop a tomcat from roaming.
Unfortunately, amorous felines can be escape artists -- and all it takes is a few minutes outdoors for a fertile kitty to become pregnant.
You'll also have to deal with the mating behaviors of an intact feline, including urine marking, yowling and aggression problems. Spaying or neutering your little one prior to puberty prevents any of these issues as well as some health problems later in life. Plus, you won't have to worry about finding homes for unwanted litters. Based in Las Vegas, Susan Paretts has been writing since She writes about many subjects including pets, finances, crafts, food, home improvement, shopping and going green.
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She will accept food and drink and is in every way completely normal except that it is obvious from her size and shape, and the presence of movement, that there are still kittens waiting to be born. This resting stage may last up to 24 or even 36 hours, after which straining recommences and the remainder of the litter is born quite normally and easily.
The mother cat pants as the kittens are born. Keeping a watchful eye as her second kitten is born. She washes each kitten as it is born. The mother cat will eat the placenta of her kittens. Cleaning the membranes from her fourth-born kitten. All kittens are born with membranes cleaned away by the mother cat allowing them to take their first breaths. Breeders or owners may want to know what can be done to recognise trouble early and how it can be avoided or overcome. Most cats, especially moggies or non-pedigrees, give birth without problem.
A normal cat birth needs no intervention. If you are at all worried, contact your vet. If you are a breeder and would like more detailed information on birth and birthing problems, click here. The late Jane Burton of Warren Photographic supplied the beautiful pictures. All our advice is freely accessible to everyone, wherever you are in the world. However, as a charity, we need your support to enable us to keep delivering high quality and up to date information for everyone.
Kitten season is a term that describes the warmer months of the year, when cats typically mate and give birth. For example, first-time cat moms often have just two or three kittens. Four were stillborn, and fourteen of the surviving kittens were male.
This partly explains why a litter of kittens can include babies in so many different colors as well as long and short hair lengths. Each kitten in a litter comes from a separate egg, and when cats mate, more eggs are released. The more exposure a female cat has to males and the more frequently she mates, the larger her litter is likely to be.
Infections including feline infectious peritonitis FIP and feline panleukopenia virus FPV can have smaller litters or stillborn kittens.
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