Need advice: Catching female cat between kittens
This message came from the VETMED list - I asked permission from the original poster if I could forward her email to all of the experts on this list. Her email address is: [EMAIL PROTECTED] thanks, Bonnie in WI Date:Wed, 6 Jul 2005 08:50:29 -0700 From:Trudy Handel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Catching female cat between kittens?? We have a problem here - we live on a farm and our nasty next door neighbour (renter) abandoned his cats when he moved away. They ended up moving in with us, which is fine except one of them was a female that was heavily pregnant and incredibly skinny. We fed her, looked after her kittens and found good homes for them, then we were going to take her in to be spayed. Too late. It looks like she's ready to give birth AGAIN at any moment - her kittens are not quite three months old and she's huge. The vet told us that we couldn't have her spayed till two weeks after the kittens had been weaned. By that time, she was visibly pregnant again. So now we're about to have another batch of kittens. The last batch cost us a lot of money by the time we paid for kitten food, shots and wormers for the whole batch. Here we go again! My question is - is there any way we can keep her from getting pregnant AGAIN immediately after this litter? Keeping her in or tomcats away isn't an option as she hates it inside - has always been a barn cat, I guess, and the other neighbours don't bother neutering their males so there are toms all around. Is there such a thing as a birth control pill we could give her till she weans the kittens and we can get her spayed? Just wish I could find the neighbour! -- Trudy Handel [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.xanadufarms.com Handmade glass beads http://www.fireice.ca /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/ \/ \ All postings from VETMED are copyright (c) to their original author. www.elephants.com
Re: Need advice: Catching female cat between kittens
I hate to sound condescending, but... If keeping her inside isn't an option, then whatdo youexpect? Let me get this right, she's an outdoor, unspayed female, running with free access to a number of toms? And you don't want her to get preggo but you don't want to keep her inside either? Just be responsible, and keep her inside, in a CAGE if you have to! You think she's miserable? How about all of her offspring, and THEIR offspring? I assume you did not have all of her kittens spayed or neutered before adopting them out? Believe me, making ONE cat miserable in a cage for a few months is WELL worth the trade off of not creating a thousand disposable lives accidentally, generation after generation of kittens who might be unwanted, left to starve or freeze, or fall into the hands of cruel people, to be abused, or left to fend for themselves, running from dogs, and creating feral cat colonies, which uncaring humans put out poison for, and die horrible deaths. All because you couldn't let one female cat suffer in a cage for a few months. The responsible thing is to cage her until she can be spayed, it's better for her, it's better for everyone that way. And please, make sure all of the kittens you adopt out go to people who PROMISE to get them spayed or neutered, and get their phone numbers, and check up on them in 6 months, and make sure they all have been! Jennhttp://ucat.ushttp://ucat.us/domesticcatlinks.html ~~~I collect KMR kitten formula labels for Bazil, a 3 yr old special needs cat who must live on a liquid diet for the rest of his life.Bazil's caretaker collects labels and sends them to KMR, where they add up until she earns a free can of formula!PLEASE save your KMR kitten formula labels for Bazil! If you use KMR, even just one can, please ask me for the mailing address you can send them to, to help feed Bazil! No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.8.10/43 - Release Date: 7/6/2005
Re: Need advice: Catching female cat between kittens
Jenn, Your reply contain common sense but the person did provide for the first litter; I do hope the tone it won't put her off caring properly for the mother and her kittens to be. The post came from a list that is primarily about dogs, so she may not know as much about cats and was afraid to cage the mom. Bonnie in WI www.elephants.com I hate to sound condescending, but... If keeping her inside isn't an option, then whatdo youexpect? Let me get this right, she's an outdoor, unspayed female, running with free access to a number of toms? And you don't want her to get preggo but you don't want to keep her inside either? Just be responsible, and keep her inside, in a CAGE if you have to! You think she's miserable? How about all of her offspring, and THEIR offspring? I assume you did not have all of her kittens spayed or neutered before adopting them out? Believe me, making ONE cat miserable in a cage for a few months is WELL worth the trade off of not creating a thousand disposable lives accidentally, generation after generation of kittens who might be unwanted, left to starve or freeze, or fall into the hands of cruel people, to be abused, or left to fend for themselves, running from dogs, and creating feral cat colonies, which uncaring humans put out poison for, and die horrible deaths. All because you couldn't let one female cat suffer in a cage for a few months. The responsible thing is to cage her until she can be spayed, it's better for her, it's better for everyone that way. And please, make sure all of the kittens you adopt out go to people who PROMISE to get them spayed or neutered, and get their phone numbers, and check up on them in 6 months, and make sure they all have been! Jennhttp://ucat.ushttp://ucat.us/domesticcatlinks.html ~~~I collect KMR kitten formula labels for Bazil, a 3 yr old special needs cat who must live on a liquid diet for the rest of his life.Bazil's caretaker collects labels and sends them to KMR, where they add up until she earns a free can of formula!PLEASE save your KMR kitten formula labels for Bazil! If you use KMR, even just one can, please ask me for the mailing address you can send them to, to help feed Bazil! No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.8.10/43 - Release Date: 7/6/2005
Re: Need advice: Catching female cat between kittens
I did not see where it said she got them all spayed/neutered, only that she got them their shots. Possibly I am wrong. Still the facts remain. I hope I did not put her off from trying to help too, I was simply attempting to get her to realize how ridiculous hernot being willingto cage the cat was. I admit, I'm NOT a people person, ignorance annoys me to no end. Maybe I was too blunt, but at least she realizes how serious the situation is, hopefully. If she writes me back all offended, I'll apologize and tell her the fact that she is trying at all has to count for something, and try to be a bit more morally supporting while gently attempting to persuade her to see things realistically. Jennhttp://ucat.ushttp://ucat.us/domesticcatlinks.html ~~~, Your reply contain common sense but the person did provide for the first litter;I do hope the tone it won't put her off caring properly for the mother and her kittens to be. The post came from a list that is primarily about dogs, so she may not know as much about cats and was afraid to cage the mom.Bonnie in WI No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.8.10/43 - Release Date: 7/6/2005
