Cats during pregnancy need special care because they need more nutrition to provide their own and fetal growth. So what kind of situation does a cat get pregnant? What should you pay attention to in terms of diet and nursing when you are pregnant? L...
Cats during pregnancy need special care because they need more nutrition to provide their own and fetal growth. So what kind of situation does a cat get pregnant? What should you pay attention to in terms of diet and nursing when you are pregnant? Let’s learn about it together.
1. Judge the changes in the cat's pregnancy
1. In estrus, not pregnant
After the female cat in estrus is natural breeding or artificial insemination, the egg meets the sperm in the fallopian tube, and completes the fertilization process and is fertilized. The pregnant female cat no longer has a sexual cycle. If it is not pregnant, it usually takes about 21 days to re-estrus.
2. Don't like activities when pregnant
After pregnancy, mother cats become cautious in their actions, and their appetite gradually increases. They like to lie in a quiet, warm and bright place to rest without loving activities.
3. Changes in sexual characteristics
The nipples turn red, called pinking, and appear around the third week of pregnancy. After pregnancy, I also have more time to sleep, and I like to straighten my body and sleep. After 20 days of pregnancy, I have nipples gradually become pink and my breasts begin to grow bigger.
4. Carefully touch the fetus. When you are pregnant for about one month, your abdominal circumference begins to increase. After one month of pregnancy, you can touch carefully and touch the spherical embryo with a certain degree of elasticity. After about 50 days of pregnancy, the fetus has developed and formed, and the fetus can be clearly touched when you touch it.
However, when palpating, you should be careful and cautious, and avoid rude movements or pressing hard to avoid embryo death and miscarriage.
5. Hormonal changes
Pregnant female cats may become gentle or rough. She will feel helpless due to physical discomfort caused by hormone changes, hates other cats coming close to her and may even attack her closest cat companion.
This is a normal reaction, don't punish her for this. You can place her in a separate room and isolate her from other pets until this stage passes.
2. Key points for dietary supplements for pregnant cats
1. Moderate nutrition supplementation
Do not advocate excessive supplementation and increase nutrition in the early stage of pregnancy to prevent overnutrition and excessive fetal development. Excessive nutrition can cause some health problems, and excessive fetus will cause difficult labor during the delivery process.
Feed kitten food or special food for pregnant cats.
2. Calcium supplementation is appropriate in the middle stage. In 4-5 weeks after successful mating, the embryo is in the developmental stage. You can feed some meat with canned or high protein content (boiled with chicken or beef in white water), but it is also too much. Calcium should also be supplemented in moderation.
3. Supplement high protein
In the late stage, foods with high calcium and protein content should be supplemented with 6-7 weeks of successful mating, including calcium tablets or calcium powder for pets.
The meat that can also be fed with fish is best. Crucian carp is cooked in white water and cooked together with a pressure cooker. The fish soup is milky white.
3. Pay attention to daily attention when pregnant female cats
1. Pregnancy assisted cleaning
Cleaning, bathing, cats are very clean, and this characteristic of cats during pregnancy is more obvious. Parents should regularly comb their pregnant cats' hair and massage their bodies. They can bathe the cat within 30 days of pregnancy.
The female cat has a big belly before giving birth and it is difficult for her to bend over and lick her ass. You need to use soft cloth and warm water to gently clean her anus and vagina.
2. Appropriate exercise in daily life
During the cat's pregnancy, cat's movement should be appropriately restricted, but it is also necessary to exercise in daily life.
Take your cat out in your spare time to help promote blood circulation, enhance bone strength, and reserve ability for cats to produce.
3. It is forbidden to use drugs indiscriminately
Finally, I would like to remind pet owners that cats during pregnancy must not use drugs at will. If they are indeed sick, they must have professional doctors to come to see the doctor. Using medicine randomly can easily cause fetal deformities, and even the life of a cat will be threatened.
