My foster cat had kittens 3 days ago. She had been "nesting" under my couch, but that wasn't a safe place for her to deliver. So I kept her in the bathroom starting the day before she delivered. In this bathroom I have the floor covered I bath mats and fleece and I have four different styles of kittening boxes set up. However, she's been detrmined to drag those kitties under the couch, and actually did it a couple of times. Now she's freaking out, kitten in her mouth, clawing at the bathroom door. She's got a kitty with her and I'm genuinely afraid she's going to hurt it. Could she? I'm at wit's end.
I can't have her keep her kittens under my couch, because the risk of the other foster kittens getting to them is great.
Help! Are the kittens going to suffer for this? I'm losing it.
PS. No one needs to tell me to get her fixed. She's a foster, so it was some other irrisponsable jerk who is responsible for her 5th pregnancy. She will be fixed by our Resue ASAP.
My foster cat is determined to bring her kittens to her chosen nesting spot--will hurt the kitties trying to do so?
2016-06-19 11:50 am
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2016-06-19 1:08 pm
She wants them under the couch and she's going to get them there. She has determined that the couch is safer than the bathroom. I suspect that she is well aware of the other cats in your house. And (since you've had her only a short time) she doesn't trust you or your judgement about her kittens.
Is there a way that you can keep the other cats out of the room with the couch? A temporary frame of chicken wire that will serve as a door?
Is there a way that you can keep the other cats out of the room with the couch? A temporary frame of chicken wire that will serve as a door?
2016-06-19 5:01 pm
She doesn't feel safe in the bathroom.
Is there somewhere else in the house that is more remote with less activity you can try?
Yes, she CAN hurt these babies by dragging them around.
Is there somewhere else in the house that is more remote with less activity you can try?
Yes, she CAN hurt these babies by dragging them around.
2016-06-19 12:24 pm
Ah, they do not listen to reason. You are correct - she needs to keep the newborns in a safe place away from the other foster kittens. Do you have a larger room you could put her in? A bedroom possibly so that she could have her imagined security by having them under the bed? If she's that stressed by her circumstances, she may become so obsessed with getting out of the bath room that she neglects the kittens. Try a bedroom (hopefully you have one) and move the whole family in there for now. Good luck in reasoning with her :/
2016-06-19 2:33 pm
just let the mother look after them and she knows what to do
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