If wild animals learn to cope on their own with all the pressing problems, many pets lose their most important instincts and need the help of the owners. In addition, breeders and simple lovers who treat their wards always seriously, try to do everything to ensure that the offspring of the wards are born viable and healthy. Therefore, they always know how the birth of a cat begins, how long it took after mating, to be absolutely ready for this most important event.
How does pregnancy take place in cats?
A healthy animal does not need to interfere in the process of pregnancy. Most often it lasts from 60 to 65 days. However, sometimes this period can be shorter or longer for a week or even for ten days. Much depends on the physical data of the fluffy mom, her breed, the size of the offspring.
Already after 3 weeks after mating you can see some first signs that soon there will be a birth in a cat. The animal becomes demanding to caresses, it will change the rhythm of life, activity falls. Sometimes there are vomiting in cats, the mammary glands change color. At palpation the doctor is able to see the increase in the size of the uterus.
By the 6th week, babies inside the womb are growing, which causes rounding of the torso of the cat. They can be felt by hands during examination and there is no doubt that your ward is pregnant, no longer occurs. The future mother tries to sleep more and eat well, otherwise she behaves calmly. By the ninth week, the mammary glands swell significantly, of which colostrum at times is released. By this time, sometimes come from the uterus a selection of pale color. Animals are engaged in periodically finding a place where you can equip a den.
Signs of an early birth in a cat
- For a day or two before the scheduled time, the body temperature in the parturient woman decreases (it becomes about 37 °).
- The cat tries to carefully lick the reddened genitals.
- The nipples become hot and poured as much as possible.
- Reductions of the uterus for 4-8 hours before childbirth cause in animals characteristic movements that can be compared with "humpback".
- The cat becomes restless and can call for help. It happens that some females, on the contrary, try to hide in secluded places.
- Palpating your tummy with your palms you can see the first contractions - this means the beginning of the opening of the cervix.
- The main signs of the approaching genera in your cat are the arching of the back in the parturient woman, noticeable by the usual gaze of the bout, the animals squat or lie sideways. All this testifies that in the next hour there will be babies.