thread: My kitty cat is due soon, and she cant find a nest.....

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  1. #1
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    Dec 2007
    Taking a ride on my grdonkey :D
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    ^ Ooh, it does indeed sound as though kittens are imminent I read that they spend the day or two before birth eating constantly (obviously storing up energy for the big event) and then when they go off their food, you know it's time The aimless wandering is a good sign, too - she'll be starting to think about a good place to go and have her babies. If she starts becoming agitated, get the old towels ready and just pop her wherever you want her to nest, hopefully she'll stick with it if she's close enough to delivering she won't bother leaving the place you provide! Good luck

  2. #2
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    Dec 2006
    In my own private paradise
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    we put nesting spots all over the place for our kitty when she was pregnant - boxes where she loved to hang out with blankets and stuff in them. she seemed to just stay pregnant FOREVER - DH was working away and i told him she was waiting for him to come home so she'd feel safe.

    anyway, he got home about 4am one morning, gave Dix a pat and came to bed - got out of bed at 6ish to find her with four kittens - on the kitchen table! no nesting stuff - nothing - just a cat and her kittens! thankfully she let us move them into one of the big boxes we'd kept for them and she kept them in there until they started to get mobile. it was good cos we could move them into the lounge with the fan and things where it was cooler.

    don't think Dix quite got the notion of nesting - either that, or because she knows our dogs (chihuahua cross) run through the kitcen on their way outside in the mornings, she was making sure they couldn't get near them...