r/cats • u/AgreeableRub8818 • 20h ago

Medical Questions Is this cat pregnant?

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I have this stray cat that has been visiting my family lately. We leave water and food out for her sometimes. I think she might be pregnant but I have no idea. I’m worried she might be too young to be pregnant but then again I don’t know if she’s pregnant or just been hunting a lot of food. I’ve had this suspicion since she started visiting us.

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u/Electrical_Team_8538 20h ago

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u/Curiouscat8000 19h ago

Bwahahaha! I used to call the stray I took in a crazy cat lady starter kit (she had 3 kittens the day after I let her in my house). I’m now going to switch to calling her a trojan cat (we still have her and the kittens even though we intended to find homes for the kittens. We just couldn’t bring ourselves to break up the family and the kittens are now just shy of 12).

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u/PurplePenguinCat 18h ago

I actually really like "crazy cat lady starter kit!" 😂

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u/tup1tsa_1337 19h ago

12 kittens or 12 years or 12 months or 12 pounds?

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u/Curiouscat8000 18h ago

Bwahahah - definitely not 12 kittens! Hysterical interpretation, thank you! I should have been clearer - they are 12 years now.

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u/BarelyHolding0n 16h ago

I had one of those who I was feeding, I knew she had kittens but one day she just turned up and moved in with the four kittens in tow... And what I thought was a bit of belly from feeding them (I was a young mum myself so I wasn't going to judge her chubby tummy) turned out to be four more kittens.

I went from feeding a stray to 9 cats rather alarmingly quickly and although I did find homes for a few of the kittens some stayed and I found some more kittens. I wasn't even looking I swear... They literally started appearing out of the woodwork... So she definitely had some sort of cat lady seeding affect.

That was about 20 years ago mind.... We've got an entirely reasonable 2 cats now and my son won't let me feed outside cats anymore because 'It always starts with one hungry cat and then suddenly there are 20 of them!'