Hi everyone,
Please excuse me for skipping the introductions, but this is a bit of an emergency.
To give you some context, I'm currently staying with a foster family, so I'm unable to get to a vet...
I'm currently feeding about ten stray cats in my foster family's neighbourhood.
One of the females looked like she was pregnant.
She ended up having two kittens first, which looked premature to me.
For the first one: I got there too late, it had already passed away... The placenta and sac hadn't been removed.
The second one: I watched the birth from a distance so I wouldn't disturb the mother. She did the same thing again: after a few minutes, I took the initiative to cut the cord and rub the kitten's belly to help it breathe. It was premature, couldn't nurse, and died the next day :(
The mother cat still looked huge but nothing else was happening, which really worried me.
Two days later, she had four more kittens in less than an hour. She cut the cords, ate the placentas, and got them nursing – phew!
But a few hours later, she abandoned them and went to lounge in the garden...
She hardly ever comes back to see them and even growls at her own kittens.
One of them died this morning... I don't know what to do anymore, and I don't understand why she's neglecting them. I should mention that I haven't touched the kittens (except for the second one, as I explained), I haven't moved them, and I wasn't being pushy when the mum was giving birth; I stayed well back so I wouldn't disturb her.
Sorry for the wall of text, but I just don't know what to do. I don't want to lose the three remaining kittens...
Thanks for reading.
