She is in a private recovery place! We had a kitten room all ready for her and she has been living there ever since we got her. She's in a kitten pen in a room on her own - rather tough on her but she needs to recover before we can let her out.


The vet says it was just a matter of the kittens going over time without labour occuring and the first one dying and decomposing so that infection from it spread back through the open cervix. All of which sounds rather like a fluke occurence that only occured because we did not know when she was due.

Liz

I haven't told her yet.

Yes she was. I agreed, there is really no-one else to blame.

liz

She is in a private recovery place! We had a kitten room all ready for her and she has been living there ever since we got her. She's in a kitten pen in a room on her own - rather tough on her but she needs to recover before we can let her out.
Obviously you didn't keep her penned all the time,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.Know we are different to felines but i'm sure if i had a dead unborn inside of me i would not be feeling myself and it would show

The vet says it was just a matter of the kittens going over time without labour occuring and the first one dying and decomposing so that infection from it spread back through the open cervix. All of which sounds rather like a fluke occurence that only occured because we did not know when she was due.

Yes she was. I agreed, there is really no-one else to blame.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.Sometimes these things or that of a similar nature do happen-as part of your family wouldn't you at least know when it may have happened and took it from their so that they/you would have some idea of when kitts were due?

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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.

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.

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

I hope your girl is feeling better Liz.

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Thanks - she is very bright and wants cuddles but she hasn't eaten yet. Also her ears are fairly hot which is a sign I was told to look out for (fever) but of course I don't really know how hot is hot. We live in a house without central heating and have put a heater in her room, it is quite warm in there so i don't know if it's that or if she is feverish. Obviously I'm not taking any chances so I think we will be back down the vets shortly - hopefully wasting our money.

If she has a temperature it may just be best not to battle on with anti-bis and spay her. Sometimes these things happen.

I had that decision to make this morning and I told the vet to go ahead and spay her. It turned out that her womb was absolutely full of pus and our girl probably would have deteriorated and eventually died had we not spayed her.
Hopefully she will now make a full recovery.

Is this a purebred girl, out of interest? Just being nosy. No need to answer.

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Good luck at the vets with her Liz Everything crossed it's good news-i'm sure it will be

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Yes she's an Asian self. We have been back into the vets just now and he says she is fine at the moment - no temperature. If she is still OK on Monday the danger should have passed.

Liz