We're trying to get some neighbors together to get her spayed.
2007-11-12 11:43:55 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Pets ➔ Cats
She will continue to get pregnant repeatedly until she is spayed. Thats cool if you all chip in to spay her.
2007-11-12 11:48:27 · answer #1 · answered by Boxer Lover 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Call your local shelter or humane society and tell them your situation. You may be able to negotiate a reduced rate for the surgery.
My understanding is that cats are like humans when it comes to intercourse. If they smell another cat, within however many feet, that they find interesting - then it's on.
Our manx showed up as a stray about six years ago. After a few weeks of searching for an owner, I took her to the vet to get spayed. It cost about $90 - but the vet confirmed that she was pregnant... so I assume it might be a bit less normally...
2007-11-12 11:49:13 · answer #2 · answered by kamcrash 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
She can keep having them one after another...cats are bad that way they give birth and can get knocked up again within weeks so the cycle repeats over and over...that is good your trying to get people together to get her spayed if she is just a random stray that hangs around your neighborhood. Check out your pet shelters, some may offer spay options like lower cost spaying.
2007-11-12 11:56:02 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
This is my suggestion. If you are in the US or Canada, contact an animal welfare group on Petfinder, and see if you can arrange to leave him with them while you are on vacation. You could trap him, and take him for neutering, and the rescue people could pick him up, and care for him as he recovers. You can probably get better acceptance telling them that you want to provide him with a permanent home, but are away on vacation. It gives you some additional time to work with him, and takes your worries about what will happen while you are away. He reads as if he once had a home, and not as a true feral. Otherwise, he would not be as trusting. He won't lose trust in you be being trapped. And when you return, you let him out in your yard, and have food, etc. for him. Or let him out inside as you indicated. The risk is that him being sexually mature, it will take from one to two months for his hormones to fade during which time he will act like an intact male kitty. My concern is that you only have two weeks to work with him before you go on vacation, and being still like an intact male, he may roam. Then, you may be left wondering. For a litter box, have cat litter and sand; he will be most used to seeing sand where he does his business. My experience with a true feral was a female that I had spayed. After spaying, she almost hurt herself badly trying to get out of the cage. She was too wild for the rescue group to tame, so I let her back into my yard. She never, in the over 10 years of care, would let me pet her, but she followed me all around the yard. I provided her shelter, food and water, and she made it through some very tough winters. I even got her trapped twice, and got her some vet attention.
2016-04-03 21:39:30 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I hope you can get the poor thing fixed!!! It is sad to see a cat go on to spend it's whole life as a kitten machine. The health of her and the kittens will soon show the effects. Look for a low cost spay/neuter through a shelter and get her taken care of!!!
2007-11-12 11:49:37 · answer #5 · answered by ARE YOUR NEWFS GELLIN'? 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Loose, unfixed animals are the number one reason so many pets have to be put down every day. There is a huge pet over-population problem right now and innocent animals are dying every day simply because there are not enough homes for them. It's situations like these that cause this problem. Please consider taking this cat in to a "non-kill" shelter, or at the very least take her in and get her fixed. Do it as a good deed if nothing else.
2007-11-12 11:49:19 · answer #6 · answered by J 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is not expensive to have a cat spayed. The sooner you have this procedure performed the happier your cat will be. Just make sure you take her to a reputable vet.
Good luck.
2007-11-12 11:48:46 · answer #7 · answered by mystique 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Why are you waiting???? Take the cat to the vet and have her spayed yourself unless you want more kittens. Each day that passed the more chances that she is pregnant again.
2007-11-12 11:48:09 · answer #8 · answered by cheyenne 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Up to five litters in one year!
Have you called the SPCA they have low cost spaying program. Good luck!
2007-11-12 11:52:50 · answer #9 · answered by Mary J 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
1 female = 15 kittens = 1 yr.
out of those 15 kittens = 7 females.
1 feral females lives 5 yrs = 75 kittens
1/2 are females = 38 females that produce = 2820 kittens
OMG can that be right?? I'm not very good at math.....I'm dumbfounded if this is the right answer....
2007-11-12 11:57:21 · answer #10 · answered by buzzword07 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋