Surprise!! Surprise!! SURPRISE!!!!!

**kuhio98** · 09-13-2006, 12:24 PM

Originally Posted by rg_girlca

Has anyone else experienced having a mama this young and if so, how did it go???

We adopted Halo when she was 9 months old. She had obviously just given birth as she was swollen with milk. (No one knows what happened to the babies)

Halo weighed around 9 pounds. Today she is a big girl at almost 11 pounds. The vet is pretty sure that some of her health issues are a result of the early pregnancy. When you pet her, you can feel a difference in her ribs. Most cats have a gentle curve kinda like (__) Halo is like this <__>. She also walks kinda like a sumo wrestler. Her back legs are held wide apart and she waddles. She does not have strength in her back legs and cannot jump or spring like most cats. She ends up leaping as far as she can and then climbing or pulling herself with her front legs the rest of the way.

She has had some other muscle issues, so the vet can't say for sure that she was damaged from the early pregnancy. I too would lean towards and early spay.

**momoffuzzyfaces** · 09-13-2006, 12:36 PM

AW, this brings back memories. Grandma was just about that age and pregnant when someone dropped her off at my house. I never even considered aborting the babies.

She did fine and loved her babies a lot. She only had three but sometimes the first litter is a small litter. I stayed with her while she had them in case she needed help. She had them in a cardboard box on my porch. She didn't need any help but was sure proud of them. After one popped out, she would clean it up and look at me and I swear, she would smile like "look what I did".

I'd say let her have them and raise them until they were old enough to go to good homes.