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Hello everyone, so glad a found this forum, I have a problem that I can't seem to find an answer to.
The situation is this: My daughter's cat, Lulu slipped out shortly after moving to our new home. I know bad pet owner, she was pretty young and with move we just kept putting it off. She gave birth about 5 weeks ago to healthy litter of 4, we knew she was due anytime but what a surprise! She didn't make a peep, my daughter woke up to Lulu sitting on her like every morning, except she kept running off to the corner of the room and there they were with a happy Lulu just beaming over them.
Four days later we are sitting in the living room when we hear a cat moaning like it is just being torn apart, we go out and find the little black stray the kids had taken a liking to outside giving birth in driveway! She was so distressed dragging the half born kittens all over the gravel and just miserable. We had to help her, so we we got a box and some blankets and gathered her and the lil ones up and brought her in. She had 4 living kittens and one stillborn.
Things looked wonderful for the first few days Lulu was attentive and any momma could be, and the new cat was bit less so, she took great care of the babies, but was also very interested in her new surroundings. But then the unthinkable happened one of the new cat's kittens vanished. We had no idea how, maybe my cat was jealous and took off with it, she is spayed and never even seen a kitten before, or maybe my husbands pug, or maybe the momma just ate it? We just didn't know. To be safe we sepperated the litters completely and everything seemed fine for two more weeks, when this time one of Lulu's kittens vanished. There was no mystery this time though, we found the poor little guy under our bed, where the pug hid his toys. We buried the little guy with still born and locked down the kitten room. The older litter has the run of the floor and the younger has a play pen. But all of them are getting very active and the pen will not hold them much longer, so is it okay to turn them all lose in the room? Well the mother cats be able to tell whose is whose? I don't know much of anything about the new cat aside from what I have seen the last few weeks, but should I worry about health risks letting these little guys mingle? My house is small and I don't really have another space that I can keep these little guys safe so I really need to know if they can be free to roam with each other or if I need to find a new home for the younger group? Oh and they are right around 4-5 weeks old now.
Thanks so much for reading this, I am so sorry to be so long winded.
The situation is this: My daughter's cat, Lulu slipped out shortly after moving to our new home. I know bad pet owner, she was pretty young and with move we just kept putting it off. She gave birth about 5 weeks ago to healthy litter of 4, we knew she was due anytime but what a surprise! She didn't make a peep, my daughter woke up to Lulu sitting on her like every morning, except she kept running off to the corner of the room and there they were with a happy Lulu just beaming over them.
Four days later we are sitting in the living room when we hear a cat moaning like it is just being torn apart, we go out and find the little black stray the kids had taken a liking to outside giving birth in driveway! She was so distressed dragging the half born kittens all over the gravel and just miserable. We had to help her, so we we got a box and some blankets and gathered her and the lil ones up and brought her in. She had 4 living kittens and one stillborn.
Things looked wonderful for the first few days Lulu was attentive and any momma could be, and the new cat was bit less so, she took great care of the babies, but was also very interested in her new surroundings. But then the unthinkable happened one of the new cat's kittens vanished. We had no idea how, maybe my cat was jealous and took off with it, she is spayed and never even seen a kitten before, or maybe my husbands pug, or maybe the momma just ate it? We just didn't know. To be safe we sepperated the litters completely and everything seemed fine for two more weeks, when this time one of Lulu's kittens vanished. There was no mystery this time though, we found the poor little guy under our bed, where the pug hid his toys. We buried the little guy with still born and locked down the kitten room. The older litter has the run of the floor and the younger has a play pen. But all of them are getting very active and the pen will not hold them much longer, so is it okay to turn them all lose in the room? Well the mother cats be able to tell whose is whose? I don't know much of anything about the new cat aside from what I have seen the last few weeks, but should I worry about health risks letting these little guys mingle? My house is small and I don't really have another space that I can keep these little guys safe so I really need to know if they can be free to roam with each other or if I need to find a new home for the younger group? Oh and they are right around 4-5 weeks old now.
Thanks so much for reading this, I am so sorry to be so long winded.