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Originally Posted by Siamese Kelly
Obviously you didn't keep her penned all the time
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I assure you I did. In the past six weeks I have not once left the room without her being shut in the pen. I felt awful but with not knowing when the kittens were due there was nothing else to be done. In the first two weeks she was so terrified that even if I had known the kittens were five weeks away I would not have dared let her out. it was two and a half weeks before I got any sort of response from her. until then she had not made a sound.
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are you sure their was no signs of anything being not as it should be,i say this because of your post underneath,you also said that the girl seemed fine up until giving birth-an unborn decomposing kitten would not happen in a few hrs.
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Precisely, which is why I am confused. Honestly she seemed perfectly well up to and including the morning of the birth. I was picking her up for a cuddle and inspection twice a day. The only thing which, in retropsect, was a warnign, was that six days before she eventually gave birth, mucus came away. We went into the vet who said the cervix was not open, and people on the internet were saying the mucus could come away several days before the birth.
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I strongly disagree, the previous owner should have been aware of at least when a suspected mating may have possibly happened-did they (apart from feeding them-stud/queen)ever spend time with them.
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I think the short answer is no. I can't quite imagine (having the stud cat!) how it wasn't obvious - it was certainly obvious with the last girl I put in with him, he was looking for "nookie" all the time.
Liz