hi all i got a female fluffy cat from a refuge about a year ago now the cat centre provided a document saying she was vaccinated and desexed... she came into animal welfares hands from a very mean family who bashed the poor cat and did not feed her at all so she was very skinny and malnutritioned .... i got her back to proper health and mental health and is a very loving family cat but she is half the size of a normal cat due to being malnutritioned for the first 6 months... but in the last week i noticed her belly was alot bigger than usual i thought she may have had worms so i wormed her and her belly stayed bigger and now i can feel kittens moving and her nipples quite large and she has colostrum .... what is going on she was ment to of been desexed ... how close would she be to be having her kittens

thanks heaps ...

Well she obviously wasn't neutered but I guess you worked that out!

If there is milk then the birth is very close. The sign that it is about to happen is that she will start urgently looking for somewhere to have the kittens.

Enjoy!

Liz

I would advice you to get in touch a.s.a.p with the charity you rehomed her from. They should pay for a vet visit to see how far along the pregnancy is.

If she still has weeks to go, you should be offered the option of aborting the unborn kittens (their costs, not yours). But this choice will only be yours if the pregnancy isn't that far along. Or because of her small size maybe other rules will apply. Definitely see a vet soon.

The least they can do (the charity you got her from) under the circumstances, is provide you with all the help you need.

It may also be a possibility that they offer to to give the mother cat temporarily (+- 3 months) to a feline foster family so they would rear the kittens with the mother and return the mother to you after the kittens are rehomed.

Whatever you decided, I would be making sure this charity footed the bill, unless you can afford to do so (comfortably) yourself. Kittens cost a lot of money. They need flea & worm treatments, they need vaccinations, they need a check-over by a vet.

If you are going forward with this pregnancy, start feeding the mother cat up. She can eat what she liks when she likes. Dry food to snack on in between meals... lots of high protein wet foods, frequent meat treats, kitten milk etc.

I do think you need to see a vet though because of this cat's size. If she is genuinely only around 2 kilos.... this could be very complicated.

If you can feel the kittens moving around she is atleast 7 weeks and you could have kittens anytime in the next two weeks so its now far to late for her to be spayed and have the kittens removed .

Are you sure about that? Bearing in mind we are talking about a severely growth stunted cat?

Don’t get me wrong, I don’t know the answer… but I somehow doubt "normal rules" will apply if this mother cat is 2 kilos or under.

It’s not unusual for a growth stunted adult females to weigh 1500grams or less. A female like this, mated with a normal (say) 4.5 kilo male… I could well imagine her life could be so under threat that a vet would decide to perform a very later neuter/abortion.

my girl is around 2.5 kgs i have no idea what went over her as she spends 1 hour every day outside and its pretty much always 1 hour... rang vet and vet will not spay this far along in pregnancy i have been advised to sue the company which i got her from as she was ment to of been desexed and came with a cert saying she was so im guessing it was a forged one they have also shut down 3 months ago and cannot track the owner so will keep searching .... she has milk forming her ducts are very noticeable now.... i guess i will just have to put aside money for a Csection incase

Mummyof2... are you in the UK or the US (or somewhere altogether different)... just trying to think if any other feline charities could help you out here. This a terrible situation your find yourself in, and it's not your fault. Maybe if you're in the UK someone in here would know of a cat-charity you could turn to for some form of help (paractiacal and/or financial).

In the meantime, if I was you I would be ....

- feeding up the mother cat
- getting a birthing box ready
- getting a birthing kit ready
- making a list of things needed should the mother cat (for whatever reason) not be able to assume care of the kittens
- liasing with a vet
- reading up on the whole birthing process and handrearing process

(in short: hope for the best but prepare for the worst)

I wish you and your cat all the very best !!

thank you very much TJE and im in australia i found this forum when breeding my bitch and was helped alot i know what to do was just very worried for the fact she is only a small girl i have funds i can put away for emergencys lets just hope i do not need them .... i have attempted to shave her belly as shes very fluffy and can hardly see her nipples but she wouldnt have a bar of it lolthanks all for your help i will keep you all updated

I thought she was only 6 weeks old and a dog killed her parents at 3 weeks old??

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seeing as the OP's username is mummy of 2, I think she has two cats, a kitten she got very recently, and this cat which she rehomed a year ago.