What do you do if a cat gave birth but not producing any milk?

Answer 1

you should go to the store immediately and buy human made kitten milk. It is not expensive, but it will keep your kittens alive. Please do all you can to help your kitten litter! Go buy a human made kitten milk at the pet store. Please do all you can! Thank you! If the mother is not caring for the kittens at all, locate a surrogate mother that is nursing a small litter. If you try to bottle/dropper-feed abandoned newborn kittens, you will have bad results because you cannot reliably regulate their temperature, keep them clean, provide necessary bacteria to populate their digestive system nor stimulate their digestive system by licking them.

Call your local animal shelter or veterinarian. Most can be expected to have several mother cats that can provide the service and they are staffed with trained people who can provide further assistance. They may even be able to provide a hormone injection for the natural mother to trigger her milk letdown if she is, otherwise still tending to the kittens. Get on this quickly because the newborns won't survive longer than a day without food.

Answer 2

1. Insure that the foal receives adequate colostrum from another source before 12 hours post foaling (there is some debate on the length of time the foal can absorb the important antibodies from colostrum and old information puts the time at 24 hours. However, the soonercolostrum is "on board" the better.) Possible sources could be from another breeder, a colostrum bank, your veterinarian, a veterinary teaching hospital or a veterinary supply.

2. First foal mares are often slow to lactate and may require a drug called domperidone, which will stimulate milk production. Milk can be allowed to increase

naturally but foal may also need supplementation to insure it has adequate nutrition until this increase occurs.

3. Contact your veterinarian for a post foaling exam for both the mare and foal. This is especially important if you are a novice breeder or the mare has foaled much earlier or much later than her expected due date. Even if the mare foals within the normal gestational range the foal can be dismature (foal shows the signs of being premature even though they are full term).

Answer 3

generally, yes.

It is not unheard of for pregnant cats to produce milk earlier than expected.

Answer 4

You can tell if mother cat is producing milk by examining her nipples. On a lactating female cat, the nipples will become large and swollen.

Answer 5

the cat is dead......... ^ ^

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Answer 6

Put it and the spawn in a gunny sack, add a couple decent sized rocks, Tie closed with a rope, and