Statistically, pregnancy at a cat continues on average 2 calendar months. Its duration can fluctuate for several days both towards increase, and towards reduction, but in most cases kittens are born approximately 60 days later after it was viscous. Throughout this period the behavior of a cat and her appearance rather strongly differ from habitual. How pregnant cats change and what it is connected with?
Instruction
1. Pay attention that increase in her stomach by 1-2 cm later after knitting belongs 20-30 days to the first strong indications of approach of pregnancy at a cat. At the same time it becomes firmer and roundish. Along with increase in a stomach concerning all body of a cat there is also an increase in the size of nipples of an animal. They become more convex, gain saturated pink color, and later on them there is a peeling densely - brown color. Keep in mind that at the beginning of the last third of pregnancy the fruits quickly increase and gain weight that forces a uterus to put pressure upon internals of a cat mother. It can lead to deterioration in her appetite and also is the reason that the animal is more often than usual goes to a toilet.
2. Transfer a cat to the forage of the brand habitual to you adapted for pregnant animals if you feed her with ready-made feeds. If the cat is on food natural products, then together with your veterinarian develop to an animal a new food allowance at which there have to be fresh products abounding with all vitamins and mineral substances, necessary for the normal course of pregnancy. Besides, in the first weeks of pregnancy at a cat, as well as at the person, morning nausea is possible. It does not last long and is not symptom of any pathology. Perhaps, the veterinarian will advise you to reconsider a diet of a pregnant animal and to make it easier, or, on the contrary, more nutritious.
3. Be not surprised that the pregnant cat prefers a privacy and spends the most part of time somewhere in secluded corners, hiding from owners and filling up there. The increased drowsiness during pregnancy and decrease of the activity – it is absolutely normal for a pregnant animal and should not disturb you. The cat during pregnancy becomes clumsier and slow, than staying in the usual state. There is no wonder, it is heavy to it to move also actively and gracefully, as always, when in a stomach at it five-six kittens develop. Check that the animal did not get on height at all and did not try to get into narrow cracks. In the first case it can be injured, having jumped off down, and in the second – to get stuck and do much harm to itself and the kittens who were not born still.