Hi,
I’ve had a cat that I found in a bin bag in the alley outside my house ( people are awful) for 2 years now. She was extremely nervous and aggressive for the first year and then she began to trust me and we are nearly there in curbing her nerves and aggression entirely with me (yay!). However, I took her to the vet about 6 months ago for something unrelated and it took 5 people to restrain her and somebody came out of the room with a bleeding face so she’s nearly impossible for a vet to examine properly. Their ‘best guess’ was that she was spayed as there haven’t been any litters in two years and she is allowed out freely.
HOWEVER, cut to 15th September and I think - she looks huge, she’s sleeping a lot and keeps licking her bits and *then* I think I can see wiggly movement in her abdomen. A few days after this, she tried to jump into the back of the pan cupboard (and she’s never done anything like that before) and going on a general safari of the house. At this point, I’m convinced she’s pregnant.
On 21st September at about 6pm, there’s a little puddle of clearish pink-tinted odourless liquid on the bathroom floor and she’s licking her bits again like mad, so I’m reading everything online and expecting kittens to fly out of her immediately.
However, today, she looks smaller and I’m doubting the movement I thought I’d seen over the last 10 days. She has let me put my hand on her belly once today but it just all feels solid with no movement (she’d not eaten and been to the loo already) but I didn’t press that hard, just a little firmly. I can’t see her nipples because her belly is SO fluffy and she’s got an unusually large primordial pouch. She’s not a small cat to begin with either so that makes it harder as there’s no big visible pot belly :\
No vet near me will do a home visit due to covid restrictions - am I best waiting or do I put her through the trauma of the vet again? I don’t want to stress her to that level if she is actually pregnant - she seems perfectly fine in herself and she hasn’t had an opportunity to have the litter somewhere unknown or undiscovered.
Any advice would be great, thank you!
I’ve had a cat that I found in a bin bag in the alley outside my house ( people are awful) for 2 years now. She was extremely nervous and aggressive for the first year and then she began to trust me and we are nearly there in curbing her nerves and aggression entirely with me (yay!). However, I took her to the vet about 6 months ago for something unrelated and it took 5 people to restrain her and somebody came out of the room with a bleeding face so she’s nearly impossible for a vet to examine properly. Their ‘best guess’ was that she was spayed as there haven’t been any litters in two years and she is allowed out freely.
HOWEVER, cut to 15th September and I think - she looks huge, she’s sleeping a lot and keeps licking her bits and *then* I think I can see wiggly movement in her abdomen. A few days after this, she tried to jump into the back of the pan cupboard (and she’s never done anything like that before) and going on a general safari of the house. At this point, I’m convinced she’s pregnant.
On 21st September at about 6pm, there’s a little puddle of clearish pink-tinted odourless liquid on the bathroom floor and she’s licking her bits again like mad, so I’m reading everything online and expecting kittens to fly out of her immediately.
However, today, she looks smaller and I’m doubting the movement I thought I’d seen over the last 10 days. She has let me put my hand on her belly once today but it just all feels solid with no movement (she’d not eaten and been to the loo already) but I didn’t press that hard, just a little firmly. I can’t see her nipples because her belly is SO fluffy and she’s got an unusually large primordial pouch. She’s not a small cat to begin with either so that makes it harder as there’s no big visible pot belly :\
No vet near me will do a home visit due to covid restrictions - am I best waiting or do I put her through the trauma of the vet again? I don’t want to stress her to that level if she is actually pregnant - she seems perfectly fine in herself and she hasn’t had an opportunity to have the litter somewhere unknown or undiscovered.
Any advice would be great, thank you!