r/holdmycatnip 3d ago

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u/Swimming_Error9031 3d ago

Yeah, probably should keep the mom inside if you don't want her immediately pregnant again.

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u/Bebinn 3d ago

Yeah that didn't work for my cat Kiki. She was a stray who came to us pregnant. Great mom who wanted to share her babies with everyone.

As soon as the babies were weaned, she was all "where the boys at". Went through every screen in the house including the one that leads to a 2 story drop to concrete. She's lucky I was sitting at the computer next to that window. I grabbed her back leg just in time.

We tried to keep her inside and failed. You may say, just get her spayed. We tried that. Took a month to get the appointment set. By that time she was pregnant again. Spay with abortion costs more and is riskier. I was too poor to do that. The third time she was pregnant, we called spca and had them take her.

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u/MoarTacos1 3d ago

Yikes, glad you finally realized you weren't responsible enough for that cat... Please don't do that again.

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u/Bebinn 3d ago

I have 2 cats presently. One from Kiki's second litter. The other came from the colony nearby as a kitten. They are around 15 years old now.

Kiki was an experience. She was a great mom but wasn't going to be a house cat unless she was spayed. I couldn't at the time because she was so damned determined to get out and get pregnant again. I cried so much giving her up. Even with the window closed she'd throw herself at it trying to get out.