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? asked in PetsCats · 7 years ago

Is it normal to deworm a cat and she lose her litter?

Well we got her 2 days before christmas, and we dewormed her after christmas, but the thing is we think that she was pregnant when we dewormed her, but now she is in heat. Which means that the dewomer killed the litter or she got rid of them her self.

we when to tractor supply to get the dewormer, My vet has been closed since the week before Christmas, and I don't go to any other vets around here because we have heard really bad things about the vets. So I only trust our vet. My family has been going to him for over 30 years.

Please can anyone answer me. Yes we know she might not have been pregnant too. But it doesn't make since though, she ate like she was and now she hasn't been eating hardly at all like our cats do. Strange.

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  • 7 years ago
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    If she had a high worm burden she may have had a swollen stomach. This will have resolved once she was wormed properly. Wormers are very safe drugs & OTC are unlikely to have caused a problem.

    Now she isn't feeding the worms she won't feel hungry all the time.

    Source(s): 40+ years cat owning & 10 years breeding Bengals. 20+years dog owning.
  • J C
    Lv 7
    7 years ago

    A cat with a high "payload" of worms will often have a swollen stomach, and it can look like pregnancy. She would have been eating large amounts of food to make up for what the worms were taking, and now that they are lessened (probably not gone) she doesn't have to eat as much. As soon as your vet is back in his office, get her spayed and take in a fecal sample - she probably needs to be wormed again. Most wormers won't harm a pregnant cat, but some of them can be toxic, so you do need to be careful. When you are in your vet's office, have him suggest a backup vet to you. You really do need one - you never know when you're going to have an emergency when your favored vet's on vacation!

    Source(s): many years of cat rescue
  • Ocimom
    Lv 7
    7 years ago

    Over the counter wormers could have killed those kittens IF she was pregnant. Never worm a pregnant cat. She needs to be spayed.

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