A Michael Broad Blog
In The Times newspaper today there is an article, “Maternal Stress Passed on to Unborn Babies”. It refers to a study in which the conclusion was that stress suffered by women in pregnancy can affect the unborn children and impair brain development. Premature babies of women who had had stressful pregnancies had reduced development …
For how long is a bobcat pregnant? Gestation lasts about sixty-three days – Wild Cats of the World by Mel and Fiona Sunquist. The average litter sizes range from 2.5 to 3.9 kittens. Litters as large as six have been recorded. Young females have smaller litters than older females. Source: Wild Cats of the …
Here’s six pictures of cats cuddling up to their pregnant female human companions. I wonder if the cats know that a new addition to the family is on the way.
The literature that I’m reading provides me with conflicting information. My book on cat health problems (which is the best book on the market1) tells me that the best time to spray a female cat is at 5 to 7 months of age before she goes into her first heat. This implies that female …
Feline superfecundation occurs when a litter of kittens has more than one father. Tomcats squabble over a female in heat and most females promiscuously allow one male after another to mate with her. Thus, all her admirers who have been fighting over her have their opportunity. Her reproductive tract contains the sperm of several …
