Childbirth at a cat is the most real test not only for an animal, but also for her owner. The action quite long and as it will go nobody not in forces to predict this. As a rule, cats give birth independently and the special help for this purpose is not required to them. However owners of many pets worry and are interested whether the help of the professional doctor is required at this moment to a cat.
Physicians-veterinarians offer the worrying owners of pregnant cats the detailed description of process of childbirth – that what follows how many approximately on time any given piece of childbirth can last. And, of course, specify the reasons and situations in which the help of the qualified doctors surely is required.
When medical care on a genus of a cat is required
In a genus of a cat there can be situations which neither the animal, nor its owner is able to correct. So, for example, it is worth asking for medical assistance if a part of a kitten appeared, but cannot vytuzhit his mother further, and all this lasts quite long time. Also it is worth seeing a doctor if the cat could not exempt the newborn from an amniotic bubble. Besides, the umbilical cord which is not gnawed through by mother within 10 minutes after the delivery and absence of an afterbirth is too occasions to visit the doctor. And it is desirable quicker.
As for urgent medical assistance, it can be required in the following cases: - if at a cat temperature and available a pronounced fever rose; - if pregnancy lasts more than 70 days; - if there were red allocations or the unpleasant smell went; - if the first phase of childbirth (fight) lasts more than a day when there have to be at most 12 hours; - if at a cat the strong contractions which proceed not less than 2 hours, but kittens do not pass (such option is possible if at once two kids go on patrimonial ways). Remember that those situations which demand immediate medical care are very serious and threaten health and life of a cat. If in time not to take a measure, to self-medicate or neglect everything, the animal will die.
Whether the doctor after the delivery is necessary
As a rule, the professional physician after the delivery is not required to a cat. However if desired you can show young mother to the expert to make sure that is with her everything is all right. It is better not to touch kittens to monthly age. It should be taken into account that the cat mother very sharply reacts to everything and can even bite and scratch the owner if seems to her that he poses threat for her kids. Therefore if you decide to show an animal to the doctor, it is better to do it at home. And will be quieter than mother that she does not leave from children, and you should not drag just given rise animal in potentially infectious places. Do not forget and about maintenance of an organism of a cat after the delivery, surely consult to the doctor on food of young mother and intake of vitamins by it. Choose those medicines which will be advised to you by the veterinarian, they most fully will help your alumna to be restored after the delivery.