Why didn't you have the pregnancy terminated ? she is far to young to be a Mum poor girl

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We don't let any of our moggies out until they're at least 6 months old and have been spayed and I wouldn't leave our Bengal Queens unsupervised with our stud until they were at least 10 months old.

I hope your girl and the kittens are OK, please keep us updated.

Fiona

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She of course went for a vet visit, the vet said because she thought she was quite a way through the pregnancy before we even suspected she was pregnant, it would have been a failry major operation for her to be spayed and terminate at that point.

Did we not think of getting her spayed - yes, of course, however in the are I live vets are reluctanct to spay until about 6 months old, as I have posted she was less than 4 months!
She was only allowed in the garden supervised, the other Tom cat came into my house!

She had a good look over by the vet - whos advice was to continue with the pregnancy, she felt she wouldn't be any more likely to have complications that an older cat. She is now about 5 1/2 months old, and about to pop.
Remember cats do most of their growing in the first 6 months, so by the time she actually comes to give birth, she will be alot bigger than the 3 1/2 month old that got pregnant. And much more closer to the size of an adult cat.

She seems to be coping well, and up till this weekend has still be very playful. She has now started to sleep alot more and we expect the Kittens to arrive any day now.

I agree that this is far too young for her to be pregnant, but It was not planned.

Thanks for the update And I'm sure that no one on here thought this was planned. You had already explained in your first post about a male getting into your home. It must be worrying for you as she is so young. I couldn't imagine one of our Ori's coping physically or mentally with birth at that age Why on earth don't people have male cats neutered if they are allowed outdoors

I do hope that your girl has a very easy labour and that the babies will thrive.

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Kat
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My cat is nearly a year and has just had kittens - this was also unplanned.
It is not so much the carrying the kittens but feeding them will be a dreadful struggle for her in my opinion - make sure she gets lots of high quality food - remember she should still be on kitten food herself. In my opinion cats are no-where near full size at 6 months even if the growth rate slows after then. My girl still looks a bit kitten like and I don't expect her to be quite her full size until 18mths and think they gradually increase in size until around 3yrs.

Emily

I totally agree with you about the growth Emily as our breeds continue to grow until approximately 2 years of age. And I do worry about the effect it would have on a kitten's mental state to become a mother so young.

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It's really sad and going to be hard on the poor kitten/cat - it's not nice to hear even though accidents happen - a Tom broke into my next door neighbours house to mate her Queen - he got stuck head first down the back of the boiler after getting frightened when she got home. We both had two coats and gardening gloves on to drag him out because we were so scared he'd attack - it was quite funny actually!
Zelda was rescued from a farm with other semi-wild cats - she was definitely over 4 months and hadn't got pregnant probably luck that she didn't call until older. You just have to hope that nature allowed her to get pregnant and will also allow an easy birth.

Emily

Be prepared,make sure you have plenty of substitute milk from the vets and a lot of time!as there is a high chance that she may not feed them.Hope all goes well.And i know its not a nice thought but vets will still spay very late on,i dont think its particually any more risky just more costly to you.

Just to let you know she gave birth this evening to 5 good size healthy kittens. She did her job perfectly, I am so proud of my little girl. Was about 2 1/2 hours from start to finish.
The first one and the last ones seemed a but of a struggle, these two came out feet first if that makes a difference.

She is loving them, feeding them and cleaning them well and seems very pleased with herself.

Congratulations Helz, glad she managed with the birth ok and that Mum and babies are ok. Fingers crossed for you that they all continue to thrive.