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Posted By: New Rottie Gramma on 2006-07-12
In Reply to: Kittens being born..HELP... - Carly d
IMO, as long as she is safe and comfortable in the sack, I would put it in one of the boxes that you set up for her. Just make sure she can get in and out. If she's not happy when all is said and done she'll move them to another place. You just might have to play hide and seek when you get back from town today.. lol You can email me if you'd like. I used to be a Vet Tech and am the proud gramma of nine 10-day-old Rotties. We lost 2 :(
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Don't you just love them!!! We once had a cat who delivered 2 and labor stopped. By the next day still nothing more had happened and she was walking around like everything was fine. She was definitely still pregnant so I took her to the vet and he did a C section and hysterectomy. There were 3 more babies!
We adopt kittens and the last ones
got some sickness that is normal to shelter animals. What helped a lot was lysine. Seems crazy I know but it helps with the immune system. We put crush it in their food, but with a dog you could probably give in a piece of hot dog. It took about 2 days and they were significantly better. We also had an adult cat that started coughing violently like she was trying to cough up a hairball. This seemed to be mostly a stress reaction as she didn't care for the new additions and if they got anywhere near her she started coughing. We first did a course of antibiotics with very minimal relief and when the antibiotics stopped the coughing started back. We then did another course of antibiotics and a course of prednisone and that has stopped the coughing. We had to do a maintenance dose of prednisone for life as they decided she probably had stress-induced asthma and that if we totally discontinued the pred that another flare would be harder to treat. We're about 6 months into treatment and so far so good.
Sounds like you have your hands full.
Kittens being born..HELP...
any advice on what to do with these kittens? Mom has decided to have them in a paper grocery bag (did not like any of the places we had set up for her!) She is just a kitten herself, a stray who showed up pregnant. One has already been stillborn, not sure how many more to follow! I know to keep the other cats away from her, but I have got appointments in town all day and can't just have her in a paper sack? Is it okay to put her and the sack into one of the boxes or what? Any help would be appreciated...TIA, the new grandma!
We adopted 3 kittens from the shelter and they
sneezed like crazy, turned out it was a common infection in shelters, but our vet said to give 500 mg of lysine - we crushed it and mixed it with a tiny bit of canned food to make sure they got it. It really worked. We stopped it a couple of days and the sneezing came back, restarted it and it stopped. They eventually developed the immunities to fight it.
Congratulations! I am waiting on kittens....
I live in the country, some neighbors moved and left 7 cats, one being female, who is pregnant. Poor little thing only has one eye, but she sure is cute! Have taken her in to show her a bit of TLC, now the wait for her brood! They will all be neutered in the next 2 weeks and she will be spayed after her kittens are here. One good thing though, we have no mice!
Update kittens....we thought there were 3...
but apparently there are only 2 (it was pretty early in the a.m., had not had both my eyes open or coffee at the time!) they seem to be ok, but mommy is my shadow when I am home. Is this usual? Mom stayed with them all last night, but now is out and about. They are still in the grocery sack, so for now we call them Paper and Plastic! They are cuties!
I have experience with children and grandchildren, but not kittens! Thanks to those who have responded with much appreciated advice! Keep it coming if you think of anything else!
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