You are here:
Breeding and Showing Cats/cat
Advertisement
Question
QUESTION: my cat boe is pregnant and her belly is really hard!!
should i be conserned???
ANSWER: It may be that she has a lot of kittens in there. How many weeks pregnant is she? If you are concerned you really need to take her to see the vet to make sure everythig is normal.
Marcia.
---------- FOLLOW-UP ----------
QUESTION: my cat boe is due on september 4th..
is there anything i should be worried about at this stage??
Hi Kasadee
As long as she seems happy then don't worry. You should soon be able to see and feel the kittens moving from time to time. She may start to look for somewhere to have her kittens anytime from now but don't worry if she doesn't, not all cats do.
Make sure she has her bed set up somewhere in the next week or two so she gets used to it and try to persuade her to use it now so that she associates that as her bed for the babies.
Marcia.
Related Articles
Answers by Expert:
Marcia Owen
Expertise
I can give answers on cat breeding and showing having 'served' over 30 years in this particular field. I head up a Yahoo Group and also a cat club (NBA Cat Club) devoted to educating novices in the correct way to breed, and also show with both GCCF and TICA on a regular basis, and am well versed with the show world, having been involved in the management of the major GCCF Supreme Show in the UK for over 25 years. Genetics however is not my strong point.
Experience
30 years of continuous cat breeding and showing with two major organisations.
Organizations
GCCF (UK)
TICA
Various UK cat clubs
Publications
Our Cats, Cat World, Club magazines
Education/Credentials
Normal middle school education, and college. Best education credentials I have are raw experience of 30 years
©2012 About.com, a part of The New York Times Company. All rights reserved.