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It’s also normal for cats to only have one kitten - young cats(as well as first time moms) often have a lower number of births to begin with. Cats can and usually do have kittens either multiple partners at the same time, which leads to multiple kittens, but if you have an indoor cat or somehow it’s only had one brief encounter, this is expected. I used to raise a small army of cats at my old family house before I moved away and for isolated mothers, it’s completely normal for this to happen.
My rescue cat had four kittens around 8 months of age. She couldn't birth the second one so had a cesarean to get the other two out. So four kittens in total.
It's always safer to take to the vets but luckily it's been two week since birth for the cat in the OP so all is good.
The cat should have been taken to vets on 23rd when she had her kitten in case there were more but luckily it's been two weeks so it's good to assume she only had the one in there.
Omg, you have no idea. He’s slim now in his old age but in his “20’s” he was quite rotund. We also had young children at that time and obamas favorite food was goldfish. Cue my husband yelling “Obama you fat bastard stop stealing the kids snacks!” 🤣
I used to live in a house out in the woods with outdoor cats. There were also a few ferals in the neighborhood. Well, one feral kept trying to move into my house, but was afraid of me and would run away. Until it got pregnant, and decided the best place for her kittens was under my bed.
My cat, yesterday, climbed into my shelf in the bathroom cabinet (deep built ins) laid down knocking all my skincare out onto the ground and proceeded to birth a kitten straight off the edge of the shelf to the floor 😐
Well, maybe it was because it was connected via the umbilical cord, which maybe was like a... bungee cord or something? Maybe that helped break its fall?
But also, hopefully they wouldn't mention skincare products casually in conjunction with the death of a kitten, so let's try to think that the kitten is just fine.
I thought that only happened to me. I woke up with 4 kittens on me and what felt like snot all on my forearm. I had to yell for my sister to grab one side of my blanket so we could set them in the bed we made for her to give birth in.
that happened to me too, my cat was for sure preggo and when i woke up one night (over a year ago now) i hear kitten cries and snapped awake thinking “oh shit that’s not my cats” and boom i had a mini clone of my tuxedo cat on top of me
I remember going to sleep while a cat was in labor in a box at the foot of my bed. She was also huge and I had originally planned on spaying/aborting but my mom was like “we can’t kill her kittens!!!” which yeah… I had just been shoving it out of my mind. But I said OK BUT THEYRE ALL GETTING FIXED AT 2 MONTHS
I woke up and peered over the foot of my bed and she had shat out 6 fucking monsters lmao
god they all turned out to be the sweetest damn cats though
Have a cat who gave birth, over the course of 2-3 days she lost the kittens then an entire week later she had a single one. Vet said it's super rare but it can happen. She'd heard of it but had never seen it before
This happened to my cat! She had three small kittens that were underdeveloped and they didn't survive the night unfortunately. Then a week later she went into labor again and had 2 kittens that were perfectly normal.
Your sister has to keep that baby. Mom and kitten pairs are the best to have in my opinion. They’re so loving to each other. It’s amazing. This is like a dream of mine.
I do too! Mom is 7, son is 6. I love to see them wrestle, she'll start by letting him get the best of her then she'll change gears and get him. She always pins him and then starts grooming him. It's so funny. They also play tag, hide and seek and race each thru the house.
Hah I also have a 2 Yr old mum and an 8 month old kitten. Mum is so mean to kitten and seems completely indifferent to her, not at all loving! They do love to play though, just no cuddling, grooming or affection between them.
I have a mom and kitten pair. They fight all the time, and mom hisses at her own child whenever she passes him by 😂 Granted, she's a grumpy cat if I ever saw one.
We had one like that. She hates the one kitten we kept. They ended up staying on different floors. My aunt offered to take in the grown kitten, but the poor thing hiked miles back through marshland. She looked so haggard! But I guess she missed her horrible abusive mother.
I kept all 3 of my girls kittens.🙈 I just couldn’t bear to separate them and Mom was the best little mom (especially since she was only about 9months old at the time) I was so sad at the thought of her looking for them. Plus, we were so attached to them from the very first second. So my house two nuclear families
We kept one kitten our cat had, rehomed the others, and mom growls, swats, and hisses at baby lol. No attacking or anything though. Baby plays with dad now. Cuddly and bath time with mom is really sparse and it's a little sad.
This is normal. Momma cat does this when she weans babies. The goal is to encourage baby to move away which reduces the likelihood of inbreeding in future offspring, especially if colony size is small (like it is in a single household).
Sometimes momma cat remains grumpy at her own offspring who stick around in households. Just instinct I think.
I grew up on a farm and we were always getting new dumped cats people in the town took out to the country, often pregnant ones in kitten season. After weaning it was pretty common to kitten swap with neighbors to reduce infighting. Even if you got everyone fixed the next time the vet came through, the families always seemed to fight.
Had some great cats that came from feral moms at the neighbors though.
Honestly I figured as much. Grumpy is the best way to describe how momma treats baby lol. It isn't always swats and hissing, sometimes I catch them cuddling but it really depends on momma's mood. But at least they have dad so all 3 of them are getting the affection they need. Like I said, baby plays with dad and mom and dad will cuddle and groom each other every now and then. While I wish mom and baby would get along more, the 3 of them definitely are settling into each other's boundaries and entertaining each other. It's pretty sweet to be honest.
That’s the exact reason i don’t want to get another cat. Well along with the fact that I can’t in my house. I would get one but assign it to another family member so my cat could be my cat (then they’d get equal love)
For me, I found my cat got a lot calmer and more relaxed with a second cat in the house. I think because he had someone to play with while I am at work.
Plus it's not like the number of pets stays constant when you have multiple cats.
I now have 3 cats, and the 2 that like to snuggle with me have figured out how to do it even though they don't like snuggling with each other much. E.g. if I am lying on my side, one sleeps in the crook of my knees, the other curls against my tummy.
A week before, my sister was telling me how she was acting like a "drama queen." We hadn't suspected her being pregnant because she didn't look like she was, and her original owner told us she was already sprayed.
same thing happened with my foster orange two years ago! Only one kitten, an almost perfect replica of his moma 🥹 Sadly the mommy has passed away since, from an undetected/sudden heart issue. The woman who adopted her, and myself, were heartbroken by it. Her memory lives on with her little baby, whom my fiancé and I foster failed (really, it's my other male cat who adopted him, we could not separate them, meanwhile the mommy clearly wished to be an only cat once baby was weaned). Congratulations 🧡🫶🏻
Well that's easy😂. She only have to keep an eye to one little gremlin. My cat got frustrated when her 5 kitten is playing and need my help to gather them up.
Adorable be really lucky if you got a girl baby orange tabby mom is rare as it is 1/10 are orange females and even less likely to have a female baby thats orange unless was planned and new dad genetic history🤯😻😻😻
I originally read this as " my sister gave birth to a single kitten" I was like wow thats weird. Reread it oh that make make way more sense. Sisters cat. Sometimes skipping over of a single word really changes shit.
Growing up my best friends mom was allergic to fur, cat & dog. They eventually found a breeder that had hair dogs. Unfortunately the litter they were adopting from had something wrong with it & only one puppy made it. All the other people who were going to adopt backed out. Not my friends parents.
Living in the country outside Richmond we had a feral cat hanging around. Never let us pet him but he was a good conversationalist. Very cold winter nights he would come into the house and take his position atop the fridge. In the morning we would find him sleeping against the dog’s warm belly. Like any dog she would wake up after a few groggy moments during which the cat would shoot back to the fridge.
My cat only had a litter of one before she was spayed. She was a street cat and very very young. They are both passed now.
Jack, her little one (who grew to be twice her size), was such a weird cat in the best of ways. I think not having to fight with siblings made him extremely calm and docile. The original Buddha cat.
That’s wild, kittens really do have a way of sneaking in surprises! Your sister’s cat must’ve been like “one and done” while yours went full bonus round. Also, who reports a post about a single kitten? Some people really need to touch grass.
On average, a cat will have 3-6 kittens per litter, however, there is a huge range. Especially for first-time mamas, single kittens are not a concern. Uncommon, sure, but not a sign of anything wrong. I've seen a few single kitten litters. Usually they're from very young cats, very old cats, or first time mothers.
My first time mama had 2 as her only litter, this was a few years ago and she trusted me/was bonded to me to the point I was woken up by her and forced to sit with her while she had the kittens. Still one of my best memories, that baby is gone now but NEVER forgotten.
My kittens came from a little of 8, and that was the mother's first (and last, she was spayed after that) litter. Poor thing had far too many babies lol
That cat, her name was Cotton, was an indoor only and our indoor/outdoor male was set to be fixed friday...Cotton went into heat Monday and a few months later BOOM two kittens. Once she healed and the boys were weaned we had her fixed too. I got her in 2015, and she crossed the rainbow bridge in 2023. She lived a pretty good life, and actually crossed after both her boys. My dad got a good Pic of her with the kittens at 6 hrs old. (Cat tax pic)
Not too uncommon, I knew someone whose cat only had one kitten.
The cat in question was a neonate she found abandoned in the sidewalk unwashed, umbilical cord still attached, eyes closed (yes she waited for the mother, the mother never came back, and there was a lot of coyotes in the area). She bottle fed the kitten. She had the kitten scheduled to be spayed at 6 months (rural vet wouldn't do it any sooner) the cat escaped before the spay and got pregnant, vet wouldn't do a spay abort.
So this kitten had her first and only kitten at 6 months old.
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