She lives in a rural area of china where vet training is pretty minimal and many animals die during invasive surgery due to lack of proper medical training and secondary infection...the driving distance is 10 hours to the nearest large city.
Observe, the kittens wont be copies of pretty momma, unless the tom was point too, or at least, carrier of the point genes.
I’m really not sure. Life here is not really seen as much. It may seem different from afar but anyone who has stayed in rural China for a few days can find them fermenting kittens in a jar with juice.(graphic but true), eating dogs during the Yulin dog festival, and an abundance of stray animals and outside pets. Health care here for humans is so over crowded and not of good quality, unless you go to shanghai or Beijing where they may have a recognized medical college.
Spaying really doesn’t happen here. At least where I’m in the south west. It may seem ridiculous and unheard of but it’s true. No animals here are really neutered and you can find animals of any kind reproducing on the street without a care. Animals don’t really get surgery and rarely go to the vet or get shots.
Every cat is different and pregnancy always carries some risk. If it eases your mind any, I trapped a feral neighborhood kitten in April 2017 and took her to the shelter's TNR program. She was very tiny and pregnant. She gave birth to 4 kittens just 4 days after I dropped her off. All the kittens got placed in foster homes at 6 weeks. I did hear that one of them died. But momma cat came back to my property for release after spaying. She's quite healthy. Judging by how much weight and size she gained after coming home, I estimate that she got pregnant at only 5 months old. Her full-grown weight is 8 pounds.
