Cat Caesarian

Although they usually make it look easy, the lower animals sometimes have trouble bearing their young. Every year, veterinarians deliver an increasing number of animal litters by Caesarian section.

In Union, N.J., Fifi, a two-year-old alley cat, went under ether on the operating table of Veterinarian John J. Petersen, while her three-year-old mistress, Norma Mitchell, paced the floor like an expectant father.

Fifi had given normal birth to one kitten, then continued in labor without further result. Petersen probed her pelvic region, noted that no more kittens were on the way, attempted to stimulate labor with Pituitrin. When the drug failed to act, he operated, found that the afterbirth had become wrapped around the body of a second kitten, killing it and blocking further delivery. A third kitten, delivered more dead than alive through the incision, was revived by artificial respiration.

Last week, the sutures withdrawn from her abdomen, Fifi's recovery was pronounced complete.

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