To think that cats dont do this in pregnancy

[TheQueenOfDiamonds]

my step sister is a fucking moron and often comes out with dubious crap.
She's also an irresponsible animal owner and latest on the list of irresponsible shit she's done is not spay her cat, so it's pregnant.

She had on her status 'Cats kittens have dropped into her pelvis, not long now'.

Now, I'm pretty sure kittens don't engage. WTF is wrong with people?

Someone please tell me i'm right (Or not??)

I have no clue. She sounds bonkers.

How exactly would she know this? Assuming due to her irresponsibility she's not dragging it to the vets every 5 seconds for "midwife" appointments then it presumably it involves a lot of cat prodding, either way, that's loony.

hi i had a pregnant cat at one point the kittens did move down into the pelvis but that's most likely to happen before she starts to push

You are completely and utterly right OP.

I have no idea about kitten-engagement mind, but my sister is a fucking moron too so it must be true.

Apparently her male cat, who is definitely the father of the kittens (despite them not being house cats), has come home to comfort the overdue cat and his babies in her tummy (her words).

Because male cats do that all the fucking time.

I'm surprised the cats are still alive. She once purchased an ex racer greyhound and proceeded to let it off in her house. The cat she had at that time lasted all of two minutes. And the dog got put down too not forgiven that

Pocketsocks - That's what I hought. It was a sunday night she said it too so no way is it something a vet has told her, she's a single mum on benefits so I know she can't afford regular ultrasounds, and certainly not out of hours fees for general ultrasound etc. I also thought what losingmysanity said - They would move down when the cat is actually in labour. They don't engage the same way our babies do.

This might be helpful. Doesn't say anything about "dropping" (surely as a cat isn't a biped to drop would be the belly? )

What a spectacularly odd site. I can't imagine any cat I've ever owned being happy with a thermometer coated with margerine being left in their rectum for three minutes The bit about kittens normally being born either head or feet first tickled me too.
OP, your DS is a numpty. Apart from the engaged heads, she really is thoughtless. So many kittens are born, so few adopters come foreward. I honestly believe failing to neuter your animals is abuse.

Confuddled - That's what i thought, i was trying to picture how exactly they would 'drop' into the pelvis, given that if they 'drop' they're going in a different direction to where to pelvis is, and if they did engage into the pelvis, this wouldn't be visible from the outside as only one would engage at a time, you can't tell for definat that a human baby is engaged just by looking.. so how the fuck do you see one of many kittens engaging?

ripsishere I agree completely.

She is an idiot. Only one kitten can pass through a pelvis at a time.