• Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus
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    18 hours ago

    Look, this cat was “owned” by a guy who let it live outside but didn’t fix her because “he wouldn’t let anyone fix himself, why should i do it with my cat?” and went on vacations without organizing care for her. The cat wasn’t seen pregnant by the reporting person in the months before, and it’s an area with not a lot of unfixed cats roaming in general. That was the basis on which we thought it was her first litter.

    Don’t throw around accusations if you don’t know the full story, mate.

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      16 hours ago

      Buddy, you straight up said it wasn’t her first litter based on the fact that she had 5 kittens. That’s dumb. What you said was dumb.

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        Between one and nine kittens will be born in a litter – most
        commonly four to six. First-time queens usually have a small
        litter size.

        https://www.cats.org.uk/media/1029/eg18_pregnant_cats-_birth_and_care_of_young_kittens.pdf

        combined with pretty fast birthing where she had contractions only for a few hours (my wife even went to work, fully expecting to have the five hours of time after the first contractions started about 4 hours before) and a pretty strainless birthing itself where she was still rubbing against my legs when i noticed the first kitten in its membrane starting to prod out of her) it’s not dumb to expect that it wasn’t her first litter at that point, but not before. i goaded her softly to her birthing box when i noticed that. It was an educated guess, not freaking science.