She is a beautiful, young soft mackeral gray tabby who is pregnant for the second time. Her diet was inadequate provided by her previous owner. She was being fed raw cows milk and raw beef pureed in water in a blender. She quit eating a few days ago and I was told about her and went to pick her up.
She is pregnant, due probably best guess in two weeks but she is rib-skinny and she shouldn’t be. Dr. Vicki said that with adequate nutrition given in small amounts and some TLC she should be bringing kittens into the world soon.
That was before the incident….
I picked her up yesterday and didn’t even get a chance to properly meet with her first. I was just handed the carrier (a small, cramped container duct taped together.) I took her to the feline specialist for a checkup along with Sinclair who has a sudden skin eruption on his head and in his ears.
When we got home, I set her in the carrier in the bedroom, knowing that the one occupant of our bedroom Guinevere would pose no threat to her, and I went upstairs to ready the cat room.
When I took her out of the carrier upstairs, she was wringing wet. It didn’t look or smell like urine, and she was wet from the tail to her front legs. My first action was to look for a mucous plug, but there was none. I toweled her dry and called Dr. Vicki.
Since then she has shown no signs of early labor, no distress, no pacing, tearing up the strips of cloth in the nesting box but she has taken up residence in my canning cupboard as there is access to this cupboard from the cat room.
When introduced to wet food, dry food, baby food and KMR (not all at once of course) she didn’t know what to do. She has a good appetite and she ate way to fast and urped it up a few minutes later after she gobbled down some dry kitten food.
She appears to like a new brand of canned food from Merrick. Grandma’s Stew is her favorite.
She hasn’t produced any signs of visible labor, so a good friend of mine introduced me to a breeder in Texas who is extremely kind and knowledgeable in this area. After hearing the story, she believes the fluid was a stress reaction and not the actual breaking of the water, but she also thinks this girl will give birth sooner than predicted but won’t have milk…so good thing I do bottle babies.
So I guess we will see what happens during all of this-
hi
what is a skin eruption with sinclair. did the skin break.
will he be fine.
It is called phimphagus and I am most likely mispelling that word. I have never encountered it before in kittens, it generally hits older cats. His adopted “mom in waiting” has informed me that she doesn’t want him unless he is perfectly healthy (what am I? A Cat breeder?) Stray kittens can have all kinds of problems. I politely told her where she could stick it and told her not to contact me again for a kitten for her perfect household.
He has to be bathed and treated four times a day. The eruptions are on his head and his ears. I am only to bathe the affected areas, not give him a full bath.
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will he always have it till he reaches old age. maybe give her one of the new born kittens if born. what is the cause. maybe his mom cat carried the gene from the tomcat. if he wsa fine otherwise he would have made a lovely cuddly partner for her. and bathing is not a big deal.