Cat In Labor.

bonnieanne said:

Please bear with me as this is happening now . . . I took in a cat abandoned when neighbors moved about a month ago. The sweetest litttle (maybe 8 mosnths old) girl you could meet & also pregnant. I found her with 2 kittens already born in a tall narrow mesh laundry bag last night @ 11:00. I had to "rescue her from the bag twice last week as she couldn't get out (kept falling back in as sides collapse awkwardly). I couldn't feel any movement of other kittens inside her and she had never got tha big around, so I thought she was done and moved her and kittens into one of the box nests I had made for her so she wouldn't accidently fall on & possibly kill them. Then I went to bed.

This morning when I got up she kept following me and whining and would not stay with her kittens. So I moved the box to a place she's show a lot of interest in lately. She still wouldnt stay and was behaving so oddly. I checked her sides again and felt movement--and I realized then that there are more kittens. So, over the last 5 hours she has had a few contractions with panting and licking herself a bit. In the end I moved the box and kittens to the corner beside my bed and Im sitting on the floor by it. If I get up at all she follows me ... Aslo, she never stopped eating yesterday and has been drinking a lot today and snacking some. I'm worried that moving her delayed the labor, that her youth makes it less likely she'll recover from the interuption, that something's gone wrong and I have no money for a vet visit ---And I'm not exagerating about that at all... I'm living hand to mouth at the moment and barely scraping by.. I adore this cat ..but a vet bill today means I'm homeless next month. I don't know what to do!!

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