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My mom's stomach was lumpy and still is - the vet told me it was the uterus all contracted after birth. If there's a kitten inside the mom, it has to come out. That should not be a reason to put her to sleep, though. As to abnormally large feces, I don't know that this is an actual problem...

If you're concerned about getting the kitten's weight up, try using KMR (Kitten Milk Replacer) mixed in with the food, instead of milk. Milk can upset the kitty's stomach. You might even see how the kitty responds to a nursing bottle full of KMR mixed with water.

I think it totally depends on each cat, and there's no real yardstick to go by. My mom cat was a quiet cat, and was exceptionally quiet during delivery, only making a small sound when each kitten actually made the final push out. Since delivering, though, she's become quite the talker...

I'm glad you took them in after all - seems like you had the same experience as me: goopy eyes leading to a discovery of a respiratory ailment. Sorry to hear about the ringworms, but I guess it's great that this was all found out early on. I don't envy you having to dip the momma cat - that's...

You might also want to try posting this call for help to the Indianapolis Craig's List Pet Section: http://indianapolis.craigslist.org/pet/

One of the clues is that after the pregnancy has advanced to, say, 7 weeks, that you haven't begun to see movement of the kittens inside the belly. Also, the vet would not, in the case of a false pregnancy, be able to detect heartbeats of kittens.

It's not really a risk you'd want to take. Think of the strain on the mother if she gets pregnant again whilst nursing. It will strain her body, and she won't, therefore, be able to best gestate the kittens inside, or feed the ones already born. Plainly put, she should stay inside until she...

Oh, man, I am so sorry. This is so, so sad. I know how you feel, I had to witness the same thing myself once, with an older cat. I felt close to PeeWee just reading your words these past days. I'm sorry.

Excellent, I'm happy for all of you!

I'm new to kittens too, and from what I've read, when a kitten is full, they look like they've got a golf ball in their belly. Now, I have four kittens, and this varies among them. Two of them, after feeding, do look like they've got golf balls in their bellies, and they are taut and hard to...

I'm glad you'll be taking them in for a check. Really, the ointment is a marvel. As to the one with the eye crusted shut but no pus...with my guy, from the outside, it would simply look crusted shut, but when I softened the crust and wiped it off, underneath there'd be tons of pus. So much...

Sigh. I know nearly nothing about preemie kittens. I do know that my kittens, after birth, did only two things: Eat, and sleep. When they ate, they ate with gusto (mostly, not the runt), and when they slept, it was the sleep of the dead. Even now, at over two weeks, they sleep and are so...

Kittens will TRY to suckle at whatever they perceive as a nipple, but that's no guarantee that they will get anything out of it, or that it's good for them.

Well, if the cat is yours, then you can perhaps get help from some sort of authority in retrieving YOUR cat back from their premises. If you make it clear that the cat is yours, perhaps it will become a matter of property dispute - if being nice doens't appeal to your neighbor, maybe being...

One of my kittens had an eye that was making prodigious amounts of cloudy white conjunctivitis, and it eventually spread to his one open eye, thus both were getting crusted shut. When it got to the point where I had to clean it three times a day for two days in a row, with his eyes looking red...