A Very Sad Ending

by Nicole McCumber
(Plainview, Mn USA)

I have a white persian, Keeko, who got pregnant by my big tom, Oreo. Her pregnancy went very good. When it was time for her to have her kittens I stayed up all night watching her and making sure everything went o.k.

She got one kitten out around 5:00 in the morning and started contractions around 3:30ish. I stayed up and at around 7:00 in the morning I realized something was wrong when she was having heavy contractions but no baby for 2 hours.

I woke up my parents and told them. My dad went sown to the vet and he gave us a shot to give her once every hour and he said that if there was no sign of a kitten after two shots to bring her in. We followed his directions but, there was still no sign of a kitten.

Meanwhile, our other female cat, Herietta, was very disturbed with her new kittens who were born 2 weeks earlier.

After the 2nd shot we brought her in to the vet and they had to perform a C-section. After the C-section we picked up Keeko and her two kittens. The vet told us that one out of the two male kittens were in perfect health and that the other one got too much of the drug that makes them go under to perform the surgery and may not make it.

We brought them home and Keeko was a very good mother but, the only pure white male, who was in bad condition wasn't getting better. Niles, the baby white kitten died about 3 days after bring them home.

About not even a week after Keeko got her stitches out, we left her out to get fresh air and she got hit by a car. The two kittens of hers, Bejing and Egypt were put on Henretta since she was still breast feeding her kittens and they joined her litter.

It was a very sad experience but, I'm proud to say that all of our kittens have very good homes, mostly within our family and we currently have one of Henretta's kittens from her third and last littler until she went to live with my Grandparents.

And I'm very proud to say we have a new kitten in the family Hazel along with Peanut. Hazel is 3 weeks pregnant and 9 months old. Peanut sadly can't have kittens on account of she's a miget cat. She is only 6 inches tall and about a year and a half.