After the kids went to school Thursday morning our cat went into labor. Let me back up a bit about a week and a half ago when I realized that our cat was pregnant. Piddles, is a small cat and to be honest one of those typical cats kind of dumb. We really are not that attached to her but the kids love her so we keep her around, I procrastinated on getting her fixed and of course she got pregnant! All my fault! Anyhow, a week and a half ago I was watching her eat and started to notice her belly is sticking out a bit so I felt it. It really just looked like she was getting fat. I had a hunch though. Day by day I watched and watched as she ate a ton and stared to grow. Wed night we get home from church and my husband and I are sitting on the couch, piddles is next to me on the arm of the couch as she is siting there I realize out of the corner of my eye that her stomach is moving! Oh yes she is prego! and that next day she starts to get restless, hissing at me, looking for a nesting place. Lucky me that Mikes mom was in town to help me! I have had many cats growing up but all of them were fixed. This was a hole new experience for me. I didn't know what to do. Piddles kept wanting to hide in the bedrooms underneath the beds so we lured her out to the hall way where she ended up having the little baby... just 1! Lucky for us! I was worried I was not going to be able to find homes for them all but !?! we can keep 1. It was a boy. He did get stuck as he was coming out, Mikes mom had to assist in pulling him out. He was breathing hard but he made it! All was going well mom was trying hard to be a mom and he was meowing and moving about. He seemed to be eating good to. Saturday came around and he seemed a little different. But he was moving about so I figured he was fine. Early Sunday morning I woke up and realized that I had not heard him cry all night so I got up to check on him.... he was still. He had died. So very sad. Don't know what could have gone wrong, there are many things I later red on line about kittens that many of them die in the first 3 days of life. That was my little adventure for the weekend. It has such a sad ending but maybe it was for the best.
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Oh sorry he died! :-( We went through many litters of baby kitties when I was little. Not all of them made it which was always so sad & sometimes the mamas died & we had to feed the babies with little tiny bottles & kitty formula...anyways brings back memories :)
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