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The Importance of Deworming Your Cat
Parasites greatly affect cats, causing anemia, skin infection, low energy, poor appetite, and harming health, so deworm inside and out regularly. Here we explain the importance.
Dog and Cat Reproductive Diseases: Signs and Routine Medication
Reproductive disease in dogs and cats is less common than other ills but easily missed. This guide covers testicular, prostatic, vulvar/vaginal, uterine, and mammary/navel inflammation with the drugs that help.
Dog and Cat Whelping Guide: Prenatal, Labor, and Postpartum Care
Whelping carries normal risk from mating to birth. This guide covers the best breeding age, pregnancy signs, nest setup, labor signs and difficult-birth warnings, and postpartum nursing and feeding.
What Does a Cat’s Purr Mean?
A cat's purr is a breathing sound tied to emotion and usually nothing to worry about. This article explains the different meanings behind a cat's purring.
Why Is a Mother Cat’s Belly Still Swollen After Giving Birth?
A swollen belly after birth may mean a retained kitten, gas, or a still-enlarged uterus. Confirm kitten count with an X-ray before labor. Learn the causes and how to feed a nursing mother.
What to Do When a Mother Cat Breathes Rapidly After Giving Birth
Rapid breathing in a mother cat after birth is often normal in the first 2–3 days, as delivery drains her energy and nutrients. Support her with nutrition and rest, avoid baths, and see a vet if symptoms persist or worsen.
Why Won’t a Mother Cat Eat After Giving Birth?
A new mother cat may refuse food from exhaustion, pain, mastitis, postpartum calcium deficiency, hormone swings, or anxiety. Hormone or exhaustion/pain causes usually recover with rest. Offer tempting foods like canned food, goat milk, crucian carp soup, or chicken breast. Calcium deficiency or mastitis show swollen breasts, fever, weakness, twitching—see a vet.
What Happens If a Cat Breeds Too Often?
While unspayed, constantly in-heat cats risk pyometra, mammary tumors, and ovarian cysts, too-frequent pregnancy and birth also heavily burden the mother. This article explains the effects of frequent breeding so owners limit litters.
How Many Litters Can a Cat Have a Year, and in a Lifetime?
A cat can have up to 4 litters a year, but too-frequent birth harms the mother, so breed responsibly—don't turn her into a kitten factory. This article covers safe breeding frequency and post-birth care.
Why Does Your Cat Have a Lump in Her Mammary Gland?
A lump in a cat's mammary area may be hyperplasia, mastitis, or a tumor—especially in nursing, in-heat, or false-pregnant queens. Keep the area clean and see a vet promptly; mastitis needs antibiotics and weaning the kittens.