How do I deliver a litter of kittens?

Answer 1

Put the Mother kitty somewhere that you can keep track of her, and somewhere that is comfortable and quiet, and also somewhere that you don't mind getting all dirty and stained. After that your work is done. Momma kitty does the rest on her own.

Just check on her from time to time. If it looks like she is having problems delivering any of the babies call your vet immediately.

Answer 2

Before anyone starts screaming about spaying, these things happened 40 years ago. Long before people spayed their pets as an everyday habit.

I had a mentally retarded cat that ate the heads off of her first litter of kittens (there were only two). It happened so quickly, and my sister and I were so shocked that we weren't able to intervene in time. When she was ready to deliver her second litter, we didn't allow her to even clean the newborns. We used damp clothes to rub the placenta off of each kitten as it emerged, then dry clothes to fluff up their fur. Then we presented each kitten to momma to chew the umbilicus off, because we knew trying to do that ourselves would damage the kitten. Once they were (all eight) dry and squeaking, the mother's maternal instincts seemed to kick in and she nuzzled each of them to her nipples for their first feeding.

Our other cat (the mother of the retarded one) had given birth to her 10 kittens a week before. It didn't take long for all the kittens to get intermixed. The oldest cat would lay down quite happily to feed all of them until she was empty. The younger Mom soon decided that breastfeeding was a pain, and tried to get out of it. We never let her. Every couple of hours we'd capture her, and make her feed the kittens. We also kept a really good eye on all the kittens to make sure that none were left out of their fair share of food, and they all developed normally.

Have you ever had to deal with weaning and corralling 18 kittens at once? The house was a real mad house for awhile. The 18 kittens learned that my dog was very indulgent, and would let them crawl up onto my bed where I was asleep, and jump on to her from my hip using her as a soft landing platform. The only thing she would never allow, is the kittens trying to find food off of her. And when they started that nonsense, she would just get up and move (groaning all the while).

Even though it wasn't something done by many people at the time, after finding each of those kittens a good home, we took the cats in to get spayed. (The dog had been spayed at 6 months.) I think both cats were very thankful.

Answer 3

My cat had 2 litters before she was neutered. During the second delivery she became very tired after the third kitten, basically I kept her warm (leaving her behind free) - DO NOT TOUCH THE KITTENS - I brought her water to her because she obviously couldn't get up, and finally she was too tired to clean the last one so I used cotton wool to clean him (I wore gloves so as not to leave my scent on the kitten). Some cats can harm kittens that carry unknown scents so do not touch the kitten. One more piece of information from me. My cat went into labour in the middle of the night and she woke me by lying on my chest whilst she was in labour, I could feel the contractions through her body on my chest, it was so lovely!! Bless her, I think she was scared and wanted to know I was there. Stay with her, she'll love you more for it.

Answer 4

just find a place that will be comfertable for the cat to deliver her kittens and that would be the best thing u can do for her..besides that try to leave her alone shed rather do it on her own

Answer 5

You can't deliver kittens. Only human babies.

Answer 6

Just move the mom into a kiddie pool with a blanket on the bottom. I read a pet book and it said that's what you're supposed to do.

Answer 7

give her privacy and let her do it.. monitor for problems

most importantly - after wards SPAY THE KITTY

are you aware that EVERYDAY THOUSANDS of kittens and cats are destroyed simply becuase there are not enough homes for them??
even if you find homes for your kittens it means somebody else did not
an estimated 80% of "free to good home" kittens DO NOT find "good homes"

Answer 8

My cat has had 3liters we dident know she was pregnet 2 times but the the time we did know she was pregnet we got her a box with lot's of towels and she had them on her own

Answer 9

uh, you don't deliver kittens, only cats deliver kittens...

Answer 10

Let the mother cat do it - they've been doing it for a long time without any human help.