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Sorry, but this is long. It's late, I'm tired, but I can't sleep because I'm worried.
Mama cat keeps moving her kitten if I leave her alone and doesn't always seem to recognize her kitten when it isn't crying. I'm also concerned that she may reject or kill her kitten (but I don't know how to watch out for this).
Mama Kitty is a former stray who used to live in our garage. She has barely spent time in our house, however, still preferring the garage but allowing us to pet her and provide food and cat litter.
She had a kitten two weeks ago on May 22nd. Yes, a single kitten. Since she got pregnant she has been clingy and has spent most of her time in the house, something she rarely did before.
She was also never very close to me, since I am gone for most of the year at school. But when she went into labor, I was the only one home and she followed me around the house and demanded that I stay with her until I finally realized what was happening and helped her through it, putting down towels and petting her. Since then, I've been her new best friend. She won't leave me alone. When we put her and her kitten in the bathroom in a nice box with towels and everything, she would come get me from the living room and have me sit beside the box and pet her and rub her stomach while the kitten nursed. She's also been doing that thing with the blinking and the hooded eyelids that supposedly means she loves me?? But she's never done that before.
However, she only stayed in the bathroom for one night, the night the kitten was born. The next morning, she moved it to a corner in the living room, few days later, she moved it behind some furniture in front of the window, then behind the tv, then under the couch, then today she did something new. She picked up the kitten, carried it to our couch, set it down, and stared at me, then jumped in a box behind the couch and meowed at me until I put the kitten beside her. (Every time she moved the kitten, she would get confused about where she left it when it cried and she would check the old spots first)
She is being clingy again, only staying in the box with the kitten if I sit next to her and pet her and rub her stomach. This was okay for a while, then she looked like she was finally going to relax enough to let me sleep, so I lay down on the couch and tried to asleep. Then I heard her meowing and the kitten crying, she was trying to move it. I sat as still as possible so she wouldn't freak out or anything, but she kept carrying it around, without any sign she knew where she was taking it, so I stood up. When I got up, she jumped back in the box with it and meowed at me until I pet her. I tried to sleep again, but she did the same thing, this time carrying it around for longer even when I stood up and didn't calm down until I sat down next to the box again.
She nurses the kitten, comes when it cries, and cleans it, but I'm worried.
I'm just so tired, but I can't sleep. Not just because of this, but because of a concern I've had since the beginning- that she'll reject the kitten and possibly kill it. (I don't even know how mama cats kill their kittens so I don't know what to watch out for)
TL;DR- Mama Kitty keeps moving her kitten when I try to go to bed because I stop giving her attention (I think is the issue, anyways) and I'm concerned and I want to go to bed.
Any advice or insight would be greatly appreciated. Again, I am sorry about the long post but it's late and I'm not sure what's all relevant.
Mama cat keeps moving her kitten if I leave her alone and doesn't always seem to recognize her kitten when it isn't crying. I'm also concerned that she may reject or kill her kitten (but I don't know how to watch out for this).
Mama Kitty is a former stray who used to live in our garage. She has barely spent time in our house, however, still preferring the garage but allowing us to pet her and provide food and cat litter.
She had a kitten two weeks ago on May 22nd. Yes, a single kitten. Since she got pregnant she has been clingy and has spent most of her time in the house, something she rarely did before.
She was also never very close to me, since I am gone for most of the year at school. But when she went into labor, I was the only one home and she followed me around the house and demanded that I stay with her until I finally realized what was happening and helped her through it, putting down towels and petting her. Since then, I've been her new best friend. She won't leave me alone. When we put her and her kitten in the bathroom in a nice box with towels and everything, she would come get me from the living room and have me sit beside the box and pet her and rub her stomach while the kitten nursed. She's also been doing that thing with the blinking and the hooded eyelids that supposedly means she loves me?? But she's never done that before.
However, she only stayed in the bathroom for one night, the night the kitten was born. The next morning, she moved it to a corner in the living room, few days later, she moved it behind some furniture in front of the window, then behind the tv, then under the couch, then today she did something new. She picked up the kitten, carried it to our couch, set it down, and stared at me, then jumped in a box behind the couch and meowed at me until I put the kitten beside her. (Every time she moved the kitten, she would get confused about where she left it when it cried and she would check the old spots first)
She is being clingy again, only staying in the box with the kitten if I sit next to her and pet her and rub her stomach. This was okay for a while, then she looked like she was finally going to relax enough to let me sleep, so I lay down on the couch and tried to asleep. Then I heard her meowing and the kitten crying, she was trying to move it. I sat as still as possible so she wouldn't freak out or anything, but she kept carrying it around, without any sign she knew where she was taking it, so I stood up. When I got up, she jumped back in the box with it and meowed at me until I pet her. I tried to sleep again, but she did the same thing, this time carrying it around for longer even when I stood up and didn't calm down until I sat down next to the box again.
She nurses the kitten, comes when it cries, and cleans it, but I'm worried.
I'm just so tired, but I can't sleep. Not just because of this, but because of a concern I've had since the beginning- that she'll reject the kitten and possibly kill it. (I don't even know how mama cats kill their kittens so I don't know what to watch out for)
TL;DR- Mama Kitty keeps moving her kitten when I try to go to bed because I stop giving her attention (I think is the issue, anyways) and I'm concerned and I want to go to bed.
Any advice or insight would be greatly appreciated. Again, I am sorry about the long post but it's late and I'm not sure what's all relevant.