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Old 07-11-2010, 06:59 PM
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ideas of how to make birth box comfortable?
hot water bottle
blankets
some holes for light to get in
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dont need a hot water bottle too hot, holes..............???
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Re: ideas of how to make birth box comfortable?
i put a big fluffy cover on the hot water bottle for my cat, just until the kittens actually come..
and i have a hole for her to enter and exit
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Re: ideas of how to make birth box comfortable?
If you look at the top of the page their are some great stickies.

Watch the cover fits the box to the correct size to ensure no kittens go under the cover.
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Re: ideas of how to make birth box comfortable?
I lined Cotton's with shredded newspaper and put blankets on top. She was very happy with it
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Re: ideas of how to make birth box comfortable?
Birthing boxes don't go to plan in this house Our birthing box is a wicker laundry basket on its side, lined with towels and puppy training pads and a vet-bed type fleece on top and the whole thing is in my built in wardrobe. My queen gave birth in there last week but within two hours she had moved the whole lot to the other end of the wardrobe on a pile of old shoes and clothes Not very comfortable I've since moved out the shoes, put clean bedding in and she seems reasonably happy with that - mad cat
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Birthing boxes don't go to plan in this house Our birthing box is a wicker laundry basket on its side, lined with towels and puppy training pads and a vet-bed type fleece on top and the whole thing is in my built in wardrobe. My queen gave birth in there last week but within two hours she had moved the whole lot to the other end of the wardrobe on a pile of old shoes and clothes Not very comfortable I've since moved out the shoes, put clean bedding in and she seems reasonably happy with that - mad cat
thats odd my bengals alwaystry and open the wardrobes to"! wonder if its the siamese in them!!""
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Re: ideas of how to make birth box comfortable?
She spent half of last night jumping up and down the shelves and trying to get into my shoe boxes The wardrobes are her favourite places, especially the one with shelves
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She spent half of last night jumping up and down the shelves and trying to get into my shoe boxes The wardrobes are her favourite places, especially the one with shelves
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I once had a mad as a hatter mother cat with kittens. She would trail the kittens about and dump them on sorts of totally inappropriate places (window sill, top of book case, high in the cat tree etc). Even when I penned her and the kittens she would trail them out their “nest” and put them in the litter tray or the food bowl or just leave them cold & alone on the floor. It was getting to the stage where the mother cat was more of a hindrance than a help, but I wanted the kittens to have some kind of a mum (& mums milk!). Finally we reached a compromise… I let her choose and she chose the sliding door wardrobe, lol. I did have to chuck it out after 12 weeks though as it was pretty wrecked. Mind you this mother wasn’t the maternal type and she didn’t clean the kittens at all. And it was a big litter who all developed a diarrhea bug so that didn’t help the wardrobe either.
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