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Sent to Cat Experts April 14 2006 at 8:04 PM
   

I have a cat that is preg. a couple of days ago she was blleding and went under the bed. i checked on her about every 15 min. after about an hour there was half a dead baby under the bed. it looked as if it was torn in half. It was the top half and was still very early on in the preg but enough to tell it was a kitten. There was very little blood a couple drips and the baby. She seemed fine right away and all bleeding has stopped. She is still getting big and her nipples are getting big. Can she still be preg with live kittens and just lose one. She is happy and not bleeding and she doesnt seem to feel bad. Also what do you think happened to the other half of the kitten? could she have ate it or is it possible it is still inside her. Thank You1

 

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April 14 2006 at 10:55 PM (2 hours and 51 minutes and 45 seconds later)
         
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I would keep an eye on her and hope for the best. If you want kittens, there is nothing to do but wait and be prepared for what happens. Otherwise, you can still spay her, if you are quick about it.

I feel sure the other half has been eaten, because she may have pulled at it to get it loose and eaten it.

Then there is the afterbirth for that kitten. It is either still retained in Mom, and presumably not still attached by the placenta, since that may be why the kitten was aborted. OR, it also was pulled out and eaten.

If it is still internal, it may deteriorate gracefully and cause no problems. Or it won't be nice about it.

She probably has other kittens still developing. They may be fine. Or they are about to abort too.

A wild guess: the pregnancy is in its 4th or 5th week. It should run 9 weeks. You should begin to feel the kittens move about 6-7 weeks along.

If you begin to see a brownish bloody discharge, that is a sign of necrosis of something...maybe the placenta, maybe another, or all the kittens. If she begins to go off feed, listless, and you havent felt movement, and it isn't time to deliver, it may be a signal that the kittens are not alive and need to be removed. Dead kittens are infrequently delivered, and usually taken from the mother by surgery.

By now, I would hope you have a vet picked out and maybe clued in on what is happening.

But you're just going a day or two at a time, right? Not time to run yet.

Wish I was more definite on what is/could happen, but sometimes those aren't the cards that are dealt.

Best of luck for all of you.



Edited by DrPete on April 14 2006 at 10:57 PM



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