Have you ever been present when...

[moosmom]

Oh yeah! One of my rescues, Matrushka Grace, (Russian for Gentle Mother, I think). Her nickname was Mattie Grace. She gave birth to 4 beautiful kittens. ALL got adopted to wonderful homes

CAUTION: Get the males out of the room and give her a room of her own complete with everything she needs, including a box lined with newspaper and old towels. A male will kill the babies just so he can mate with the female again. She needs to be stress free. The males will only stress her out.

The birth itself from beginning to end takes 10 hours. It was wonderful to watch how she cared for her new babies, yet trust me to be right there with her. I had plenty of towels, a box which she refused to go into. She wanted to have them on the carpeted floor. So be it!!

She was a wonderful Mom. I wanted to keep her but knew what my limits were, not having a job.

It IS a beautiful experience, but not one I'd recommend. In other words, SPAY/NEUTER!!!

[krazyaboutkatz]

Yes, I got to watch our family cat give birth to her first litter of kittens when I was 8 years old and this was in early June. I remember telling my mom that I wish that she would have her kittens soon and then she started howling and a kitten was starting to come out so we got her box and put a blanket in it. She had 6 orange kittens and she cleaned them and ate the sacs that they came in. It didn't seem to take long at all. Later she let our dog also take care of them so they had 2 mothers.

We wanted to get her spayed but found out she was pregnant again so she ended up having another litter and my dad found her having some of them in our garage in Oct. I think she had 5 this time. She was finally spayed after the kittens were weaned.