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Thinking your cat is pregnant only to discover she is instead experiencing a false pregnancy is disappointing, but not necessarily a tragedy. She can go on to a successful breeding career.
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Infertility is the inability to conceive or to carry a pregnancy to term. Failure of a female cat to produce kittens can arise at any stage of the reproductive process.
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Infertility is the inability to conceive or to carry a pregnancy to term. Failure of a female cat to produce kittens can arise at any stage of the reproductive process.
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Are your queens having smaller litters? Or having premature births? Perhaps your cats are failing to get pregnant at all. Are you losing newborns to Fading Kitten Syndrome? These are all symptoms of a G Strep infection in your cattery. Learn how to stop the losses and maintain a healthy breeding program unaffected by G Strep.
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While there is little scientific research on the effectiveness of homeopathic remedies, an increasing number of veterinarians and cat breeders have experienced the benefits of using homeopathics in the treatment and care of felines.
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If a cat pinks up at three weeks, has her pregnancy confirmed by palpation or x-ray, arrives at her due date but has no babies inside her, it is likely that she has reabsorbed her kittens.
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Keeping detailed records of each queen's reproductive history is essential. If a female cat has repeated problems producing healthy litters of kittens, it may be necessary to consider removing her from the breeding program.
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Uterine torsion is a twisting of the uterus. It can threaten the life of the pregnant cat and those of her kittens. This article describes the medical histories of three female cats. Each cat developed a twist in her uterus, although with quite different outcomes.
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One of the most worrisome challenges a cat breeder faces is deciding how long to keep working with a kitty when things go wrong. To help you decide, you may want to consider initiating the "Three Strikes Rule".
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Vaginal discharge is the quintessential symptom of a uterine infection. A severe or untreated uterine infection can mean not only the end of a cat's breeding career, it can be life-threatening.
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A uterine infection may affect a cat during a pregnancy or contribute to future infertility. However, with proper care, the cat breeder can preserve the queen's breeding career despite a history of uterine infections.
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