“My cat has been vomiting for a few days,” said the owner, and wanted to know, “might she be pregnant?” The beastly good question, part 9.
When I heard this question, I wanted to laugh out loud at first. When a cat vomits, there is a long list of possible causes. Starting with the fact that she might have eaten something wrong, to infectious diseases, unusual cleaning behavior to kidney or pancreas diseases. But a possible pregnancy? It wasn’t even at the very bottom of my mental list of possible causes of nausea.
In the second moment, however, I started to ponder. Many basic hormonal mechanisms are involved in all…
