Well, we had a stray cat that we kind of adopted as an outdoor cat, not knowing she was pregnant. Two weeks ago she gave birth to six kittens (four gray and two white). She is very young, so I think it is her first. It has been a tough litter....when they were a week and a half, we woke up to find the two white ones gone (searched for them for two days, and no sign of them), and one of the gray boys were very sick; he died a few hours later. Then, the next day, the same thing happened to the other gray boy. Now, we have two gray girls left that seem to be healthy. The mom seems to be doing a good job of taking care of these two. We now need to get the mom cat spayed as soon as possible, but we want to make sure the two kittens are taken care of. I need to know when is the earliest I can get her fixed, and will she be able to get pregnant again in the meantime (the boy cat comes around everyday, and we cannot catch him). Also, we have never had newborn kittens before, and are not sure how to care for them past what their mother can do. How do we wean them, what do we feed them after they stop nursing, etc.
Sorry this is such a long post! But any advice anyone can give would be GREATLY appreciated!!!
Thanks for listening!
