r/cats • u/OverthinkerMoonchild • 8d ago

Advice MY CAT JUST GAVE BIRTH & SHE'S GROWLING AT THE NEWBORN KITTY WHAT DO I DO?!

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Context: I've 3 cats, 5yo, 1.5yo, 5 months, all female. 1.5yo just gave birth an hour ago and then left the kid under the inverter box with the umbilical cord connected. And went ahead to beat my other 2 kids like dirt. Now my other babies are safe in the other room and this girl is growling at her own kid instead of nursing him. I somehow managed to clean the kid & cut the umbilical cord safely. Now what do I do?! Please someone help me out 😭

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u/rglurker 8d ago

I learned that at the ripe age of 10 when I stopped hearing noises and open up the hamster nest to find 4 headless babies.

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u/PrincessConsuela46 6d ago

This was my experience when I was 5 😭

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u/rglurker 6d ago

I'm sorry you had to go their that too hugs

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u/annalitchka 8d ago

i'm so sorry that happened to you! What a traumatic experience!

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u/rglurker 8d ago

It was traumatic. Stuck with me my whole life. Then I had a baby with no support and for a few moments felt what that hamster probably felt. Unbearable stress. I hated that hamster for what it did. But in that moment felt remorse for being incapable of providing for it to the point it felt it had to do that. The lesson i took away at this point is that being a parent is hard. The hamster chose it's ability to survive and try again. Over everyone dying. It's just reinforced my view we shouldn't be doing life alone

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u/Ctenophorever 7d ago

I’m glad you said this, because this was the first thought that popped into my head. I remember the first night with my kid and it would just not shut up. Already sleep deprived for two days, and starting on a third.

Thank god I was still in the hospital. Not like they actually had a nursery to take it to or anything. But they brought in a swing and the baby settled down. And my thought was, “you’re not supposed to put babies to sleep in those things.” Followed quickly by, “if I can get some sleep I don’t care.”

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u/Otherwise_Air_6381 7d ago

And then society makes us feel so guilty for feeling this way.

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u/Unlikely_Ear605 7d ago

This is a great story. The traumatic event, your own trauma, your ability to connect to the two and relate to another living being. It’s all very human. 

Thanks for sharing.

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u/rglurker 7d ago

I do my best to be a human but sometimes I forget and then have to look around to see what everyone else is doing so I can be more human like. Unfortunately I've realized we all kinda suck at being human :(

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u/Otherwise_Air_6381 7d ago

Good point. Sad but true

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u/rustydotpearl 8d ago

I had this exact same experience with rabbits

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u/halfpint09 8d ago

Ugh, yeah. When I was a teenager a lady who breed rabbits or something (it was like 20 years ago, I forgot why she had bunch of rabbits, pretty sure she was breeding them) hired me to clean out the cages. As I was was pulling out the trays under their cages, mixed in with the wood shavings and poop and pee was, occasionally, tiny pink limbs.

Whatever she paid me, it wasn't enough.

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u/rglurker 8d ago

How old ?

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u/rustydotpearl 8d ago

around that, probably slightly older

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u/rglurker 8d ago

I had a couple rabbits that met sad fates. Stopped getting animals after the last one shit itself to death. I wish my parents actually helped me learn how to take care of them instead of just... letting me figure it out at the expense of a life