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What's up with this cat's belly?
Okay. So I've been getting the freeroaming and feral cats in my area fixed one by one... One of them, I call her White Toast, was spayed on wednesday. She wasn't pregnant (though it's possible she was nursing.. though it didn't really look like it)... I went to let her go tonight... as she was sounding quite desperate and pathetic, mewing away in her carrier in my bathroom....
Now, Toast is actually pretty friendly... So she stepped lazily out of the carrier and started eating the food I set down for her... I was aiming the camera at her to snap a few shots (for my records) when I noticed that her belly looked.... strange. I took a chance and reached under her and her skin felt really warm.. and her teats were very firm. she grumbled a bit and shuffled away, but I reached for her and pulled her to stand on her hind legs a moment while I looked... then I brought her inside to show my husband..
Her teats were looking kinda... lumpily swollen.. a bit pinkish and irritated, perhaps... though I guess it might be natural for her.
It's in the wee hours of saturday morning and around here, the only vets open on saturday deal in cows and horses. :/ So, I gently recaught her, and Am going to keep her until monday when I'll try to take her back to the place that spayed her...
but until then.. anyone have any thoughts about this?
Again, this is a 4 or 5 year old cat, who may have recently had kittens (or may not have... her 'sister' who she had kittens with a few months ago was pregnant when I had her spayed a week and a half ago)... she's a free roaming cat with no owner... just me. Her teats are warm, kinda swollen, and lumpy looking (hard to describe)... The incision seemed fine, though, when I had her on her back in my arms. also, she has pretty good appetite, and started making biscuits against my arm when I let her flip back over in my arms when I was talking to my husband. (some feral, huh? ) But she seems in good spirits, anyway, outside of the whole 'stuck in a carrier' thing.
I wish 'add detail' let me put more text in!
I'll post back when I know what's wrong...
But, her belly didn't look like this when she went in for surgery. I was at the clinic volunteering when she was being done... and her belly looked like a normal cat belly. :) the oddities were only noticed when her belly was being palpitated to determine if she might be preggers. She may or may not have been recently pregnant. :)
The lumps are large, centered under her teats, and firm. Every teat is not affected similarly. In some cases, a niple is affected, while it's 'sibling' on the opposite side is not.
She remains in good spirits and hungry!
She'll be taken to the vet first thing tommorow!
Sheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeepish.
apparently this cat had had kittens (She never seemed round, or gave any indication that she was pregnant--keeping in mind she's not my cat, I'm just getting her fixed her) and after we'd caught her.. .there weren't kittens nursing any longer... but, milk was still being produced and just building up in her teats... resulting in rather painfully swollen looking kitty belly. The solution, the vet said, was jsut to let her milk dry up naturally, or provide her with kittens to nurse.
I feel really bad about the whole thing... but, I'm going to let her go tommorrow morning and hope that her kittens were old enough that they were able to beg for food from a near by human...
Last year, several of the mother cats kitted at about the same time and nursed each other's kittens. Hoping that happened again. I'm trying to prevent kittens from being born... not starve the ones already born :(
Also!
A spayed cat, if spayed correctly, can still nurse kittens!
4 Answers
- 1 decade agoFavorite Answer
With the spay and loss of kittens drinking her milk she's likely to be sore from excess milk. It sounds like more than that though. Try some cool compresses that may provide some relief til you get her to the vet. Mastitis is most likely. It seems like if the vet saw anything wrong he should have caught it.
I think you're doing the right thing.
- 1 decade ago
You're awesome for adopting a stray and having her vetted and spayed ! I can't imagine a vet not noticing (while spaying) that she my have been pregnant or just given birth . I grew up on a farm, Morning chores were to feed and water everything and milk the goats, so I've seen and treated this before, If her whole mammary system is swollen, warm, pinkish, and lumpy not just her teats then she most likely has something called mastitis. Google mastitis, I think you will find every thing you need to know there,at least for some relief till you can get her back to the vet. All the best,Jeannie
Source(s): I've seen it and treated it in diff. animals,not cats though.-----------------EDIT------------ Did your vet say she had mastitis, or offer any treatment for your cat ? You shouln't feel bad, how could you have known? I hope you find her babies,good luck. - 1 decade ago
Please post when you do return to the vet as I am interested in what is wrong. It would seem the vet would have known had she been nursing. I take feral cats in like this all the time and there have been a couple of times I have had to bring a mother back to her babies and let her finish nursing. If she goes outside, just in case, I would look around for some older kittens maybe and hope that she was not nursing kittens that were too young to eat on their own.
There have been a couple of times I have actually had to nurse kittens myself, but never because the vet spayed a mother that was nursing. Like I said, they can usually tell and will send you back to let the cat finish nursing her kittens.
Please let me know what you find out.
- riteshLv 44 years ago
definite, they do. See under in case you had looked heavily sufficient you might have got here across that cats are certainly equipped with navels, besides the fact that the actuality that they (alongside with canine) are born in amnionic sacs. Admittedly, cat abdomen buttons do no longer look somewhat like the human version, being fairly an elongated scar, frequently hidden by technique of hair, placed purely astern of the rib cage. purely approximately all mammals, which contain apes and lions, have umbilical cords and subsequently navels. And BTW, the mum cat many times chews the twine.
