Hi all,
On Christmas Eve I pulled a "6 months old female cat" from our local shelter under the rescue I am a part of. She arrived at the shelter as a stray on 12/11/17. When I got her I was shocked to find how sick she was (not looking at all like what her bright eyed photo on the shelters Facebook post looked like). She had a terrible URI, one of the worst I'd seen. And we slowly got her better by a round of zith, lots of humidifier time, and suppliments. After about 2 weeks she was finally about 90% better, and of course, because of her illness, we kept putting off her spay surgery until she was feeling better. About 10 days ago, I began suspecting she was pregnant. While she was finally gaining some weight (she was very thin) I noticed she was more quickly gaining weight in her belly. Before I knew it, she has a round, hard belly. And her nipples are poked out, but not very large or swollen. She has nearly no hair at the last 2 nipples. She also was eating like a pig. So I took her to a vet that gives the rescue very basic exans for free. The vet palpated her and agreed she felt she was pregnant by feeling the "string of pearls" and the vet also said she was at least 1 year old. At this point, if she had gotten pregnant the day before entering the shelter, she was 30 days pregnant. Also, in the meantime, I had vaccinated her prior to suspecting she was pregnant.
I took her home, and while I battled with spaying her, I just couldn't do it, knowing she was more than half way along at the least.
Although, between those 10+ days since the vet confirmed, I don't see much change in her, and I feel like she might not be pregnant. But what else would give her a round hard belly (she's been wormed and has never had anything unusual as far as stool goes) her eating has slown down a bit, but maybe not too much by way of quantity but mostly how much she eats at one time, but probably not quite as much overall (hard to tell because I always out out a lot of wet food for her just in case) her nipples have not changed either. Still poked out, but not swollen and not really pink.
Her belly is still hard but it's less noticable on the sides, and doesn't appear to have gotten any bigger, maybe just lower ..
Today she would be about 42 days at the least. I can't feel any babies, but I'm afraid to push on her belly.
Does anyone have any thoughts or suggestions? I'm considering bringing her to a different vet, but it would have to be out of my own pocket, since the rescue stance is that we already got a diagnosis and now it's a wait and see game.
On Christmas Eve I pulled a "6 months old female cat" from our local shelter under the rescue I am a part of. She arrived at the shelter as a stray on 12/11/17. When I got her I was shocked to find how sick she was (not looking at all like what her bright eyed photo on the shelters Facebook post looked like). She had a terrible URI, one of the worst I'd seen. And we slowly got her better by a round of zith, lots of humidifier time, and suppliments. After about 2 weeks she was finally about 90% better, and of course, because of her illness, we kept putting off her spay surgery until she was feeling better. About 10 days ago, I began suspecting she was pregnant. While she was finally gaining some weight (she was very thin) I noticed she was more quickly gaining weight in her belly. Before I knew it, she has a round, hard belly. And her nipples are poked out, but not very large or swollen. She has nearly no hair at the last 2 nipples. She also was eating like a pig. So I took her to a vet that gives the rescue very basic exans for free. The vet palpated her and agreed she felt she was pregnant by feeling the "string of pearls" and the vet also said she was at least 1 year old. At this point, if she had gotten pregnant the day before entering the shelter, she was 30 days pregnant. Also, in the meantime, I had vaccinated her prior to suspecting she was pregnant.
I took her home, and while I battled with spaying her, I just couldn't do it, knowing she was more than half way along at the least.
Although, between those 10+ days since the vet confirmed, I don't see much change in her, and I feel like she might not be pregnant. But what else would give her a round hard belly (she's been wormed and has never had anything unusual as far as stool goes) her eating has slown down a bit, but maybe not too much by way of quantity but mostly how much she eats at one time, but probably not quite as much overall (hard to tell because I always out out a lot of wet food for her just in case) her nipples have not changed either. Still poked out, but not swollen and not really pink.
Her belly is still hard but it's less noticable on the sides, and doesn't appear to have gotten any bigger, maybe just lower ..
Today she would be about 42 days at the least. I can't feel any babies, but I'm afraid to push on her belly.
Does anyone have any thoughts or suggestions? I'm considering bringing her to a different vet, but it would have to be out of my own pocket, since the rescue stance is that we already got a diagnosis and now it's a wait and see game.
