Sensation is now neutered but doesn't want her kittens back so its hand raising for us for now - or thats what i thought!
This will be the third night in a row without sleep!
Its over to Lynn's as Kiki who is a brown spotted girl is giving birth. she had one kitten in the first hour we were there but it look like its going to be a long night.
Lynn lives over the other side of the village to us, so its a short car journey, but once there i realise its going to be a full nights job. So we bring Kiki back with us and pull out a single quilt for her to give birth on, and go to bed with her to wait for the babies to arrive.

We take the Savannah kittens from Sensation to join Kikis kittens and mum takes them willingly. Wonderful, we think no more hand raising with these babies - little did we know!

8am and we have 2 beautiful Bengal babies, and mum is having a rest. Shortly after we have another gorgeous Bengal kitten, and mum is having another rest.
we check on her throughout the day, but there is still one inside, although the kitten seems to be still high up, and mum isn't pushing at all.
midnight and check on mum and set me alarm to check on her at 3am.

3am and Kiki doesn't look too well. Straight into the vet, kiki has deteriorated considerably in the last 3 hours. Kiki is operated on and a dead kitten is found inside. My vet thinks the kitten has probably been dead for about 4 weeks and is starting to poison her system. We leave kiki with our vet to be placed on a drip and collect her the following day.

i had arranged to visit friends who are Bengal breeders before all these sleepless nights, so i give them a ring and explained the situation. As i thought, they were eager to help, so me and my 5 friends (kittens) went out for the day. We arrived and the 5 babies were immediately fed, and so was i. Wonderful friends who even offered to feed the kittens for me all week. I explained that i was hoping to put them back with Kiki once i collected her from the vet late that afternoon.

We took Kiki home to Purebliss and she was eager to take back all 5 kittens. So we let her look after all 5 but gave them top up feeds to give her a helping hand. Kiki is in my bedroom for now as she is still recovering before going back to Lynns.

Kiki is now neutered and looking for a pet home as soon as she has brought on her Bengal kittens.
Anyone interested in adopting this wonderful brown spotted Bengal female in 13 weeks time should ring me and i will take them to see Kiki at Lynn's.
Kiki isn't one of my Bengals, she is part of Lynn's cat welfare work and will be going back to stay with Lynn once she is on the mend.
Jacky
http://www.pureblissbengals.co.uk/
http://www.pureblisssavannahs.co.uk/
http://www.pureblissquarantine.co.uk/