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My husband has had this cat for about 8 years. It used to be an indoor cat and about 5 years ago it was put outside (not clear on exactly why) Anyway as long as I have been around (3 years) The poor thing has gotten pregnant every time she was in heat. (I don't know why she wasn't spayed before, she is a pure blood siamese cat and they may have originally intended on breeding her) While she was outside she wasn't taken care of very well and often times never cared about her kittens and even was known to eat them. Very few kittens ever survived. My husband and I live in an apartment in his parents basement and my mother in law told me yesterday that she just had her most recent litter a couple days ago and that she herself was considering on bringing them inside. Yesterday I hunted them down and brought her and her kittens (3) inside. I put them in a box with a warm blanket, have been providing the mother with kitten food, (heard that is the best for a nursing mother), bathed her (oh what FUN that was :roll: ) and set up a litter box for her. She seemed somewhat leary at first of being brought back indoors because before whenever she was inside she was immediatly put back out. (I myself have been guilty of this) Infact when I set her and the kittens in the new box; she started to pick one of them up and run back out with it. I gently held her down and petted her for a few moments and when I felt her relax I let go and she has stayed with them in that box most of the time. She comes out occasionally and eats well (she can down a serving of cat food very fast, and I assume it is from lack of feeding before). For the first time since I have known this cat she seems to be very into the motherly instincts. (as I said she usually showed little interest in her kittens and would rarely nurse) When my daughter gets near she watches her very closely and even scratched her once when my daughter tried to play with one(which I took as a chance to show my daughter, who will be 2 in dec, that she doesn't play with the kittens yet she seems to understand now and stays back and views them from a safe distance) . I even took the kittens to show my inlaws and she tried to bring them right back down. And if anybody so much as walks towards the room they are in she runs to them and covers them very protectively. My questions are ...
1- When I set her in her litter box she didn't seem to be to interested. Will she remember the litter box, will I have to completely retrain her to use it, or will it come back to her after a few times of me putting her in it.
2-The mother wasn't very well fed or taken care of while she was pregnant, and I want these kittens to have a chance the others didn't have, is there andy extra precautions I should take with them?
3- When I bathed her I noticed she was still slightly bleeding, is that normal? (keep in mind she has had kittens almost every time she has been in heat)
4- I have never had any pet before and am only doing what I have read/been told, any suggestion that you can give me as to taking care of the newborns and the mother will help.
My in-laws told me today that they will take her to be spayed and have shots when they get paid next week, so she won't get pregnant again and so she will stay healthy.
Tanks in advance
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1- When I set her in her litter box she didn't seem to be to interested. Will she remember the litter box, will I have to completely retrain her to use it, or will it come back to her after a few times of me putting her in it.
2-The mother wasn't very well fed or taken care of while she was pregnant, and I want these kittens to have a chance the others didn't have, is there andy extra precautions I should take with them?
3- When I bathed her I noticed she was still slightly bleeding, is that normal? (keep in mind she has had kittens almost every time she has been in heat)
4- I have never had any pet before and am only doing what I have read/been told, any suggestion that you can give me as to taking care of the newborns and the mother will help.
My in-laws told me today that they will take her to be spayed and have shots when they get paid next week, so she won't get pregnant again and so she will stay healthy.
Tanks in advance
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