Even though it is a bit early I have pulled the kittens off of Mattie so she can just relax and not have them further depleting her resources. She’s not relaxed. She wants back with them and has no intention of listening to doctor’s orders. I finally had to just put her into the deck enclosure (after scrubbing it upside down and sideways. If she could even hear her kittens crying, she went into automatic attack mode.
She has everything she needs out there (except her babies). She has not thrown up since coming back home, but she still has watery stool.As soon as her milk dries up, I will take her in and get her spayed and into a loving home.
That mothering instinct is fierce!
What a good mother – though not good to herself.