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For Aelo, things were special and I would even say confusing! She had gained a lot of weight and her belly was colossal. During the gestation, she gained 3.5 kg, which is enormous. Her birth began on Tuesday and during the day, 7 beautiful and big kittens were born.
Subsequently and to our great surprise, the birth continued until Wednesday night for a total of 11 kittens, which is frankly exceptional. Unfortunately, 3 kittens died at birth and the little 11th, even though he was very vigorous, finally gave up the ghost a few hours after his birth... It was exhausting for our beautiful Aelo who handled this situation like a big girl.
She was very calm and despite everything, she took care of her little ones in the meantime. We of course bottle-fed all these little people to give Aelo time to rest. A big litter like this one involves a lot of risks and complications, but everything went very well even if 4 little ones unfortunately did not survive.
The most important thing is that the whole little family is doing well and that Aelo's 7 kittens are also growing visibly. We also placed one of her little ones with Jenca to help her, which is also one of the reasons why we wanted these two litters at the same time.