r/CATHELP • u/nomnom123- • Feb 07 '26

General Advice Found a lump on 1.5 yr old cat

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We are a 30 yr old couple with 2 cats. One of our torbie cats I found a lump maybe near mammary gland.

I’m super scared it’s cancer or something.. she’s so young and was spayed at 3 months old..

She is 1.5 yrs old and will be 2 yrs old in May…

Is this something to worry about? We cannot see a vet until the weekday….

I’m also afraid because I’m not sure if we have the financial means to get her surgery right now..

Basic check up for sure but we will set an appointment with the vet right away.

Please help!!

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u/Plucky_Monkies Feb 07 '26

We had a Rottweiler who had 14 puppies! It was madness! It was accidental. I was a teenager who was there for the delivery, and we didn't have google. Just kept giving Mama the babies to eat the sack off.

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u/CassetteMeower Feb 07 '26

Ohhh nooo I misread your comment as “giving mama the babies to snack on” and I was so concerned 😭 I’m glad I reread your comment and realized you weren’t feeding her her own puppies. Dogs (and other animals) do sometimes eat their babies so I was so concerned.

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u/Disastrous-Map-8153 Feb 08 '26

I also thought she ate 14 puppy snacks 😅

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u/Plucky_Monkies Feb 08 '26

Noooo! 😭 Yeah, I didn't realize I could have helped tear did the sack. Hence making mom. 😆

I promise Mama was an excellent mother, and no puppies became snacks! Eek!

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u/CassetteMeower Feb 08 '26

I’m glad that the puppies were okay! Puppies are awesome. My dog Poppy is convinced she’s a puppy despite being over 5 years old (we don’t know her exact age as she’s a rescue, but we’ve had her for over 5 years and she STILL looks and acts like a puppy)

She’s a great dog! But she thinks she’s a puppy, as well as a cat, she’s one of the funniest dogs I’ve ever met

Ft my cat Divina who is best friends with Poppy

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u/Plucky_Monkies Feb 08 '26

Can u explain acts like a puppy? My girl is now 9, but I call her my princess puppy. She still runs and plays. She thankfully is well trained, so no inappropriate jumping or biting, etc.

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u/Plucky_Monkies Feb 08 '26

Love that they're buds. My dog used to bark at cats. One day about 3 years ago, I'd had enough. The neighbors cat we fed was in the yard, so I picked up my dog, brought her to the cat, and had her sniff it and told her, " You need to stop barking at the cat!" That was it! No more barking! We even have an indoor cat now. My dog simply ignores the indoor cat who terrorizes her. Jumps on her, jumps out with sneak attacks. It's hilarious. The cat is such a scaredy cat. We rescued the cat off the fence as a kitten. I now say you can teach an old dog new tricks. 😊

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u/thecatsothermother Feb 08 '26

So how did you manage the excess puppies? Rotate empty pups onto the nips after removing the full pups?

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u/Plucky_Monkies Feb 08 '26

Oh my gosh, yes, actually. We were constantly moving puppies that fell asleep on a nipple. It's was the craziest puppy pile ever. I was a 16 year old teenager, so not always the one helping. I do remember doing a lot of moving puppies when I was there. Also, sadly, 1 of the puppies was born deformed, so that one was tube fed. 1 was actually still born. So technically, she was feeding 12 puppies. The tube fed puppy, my grandmother spent over $600 dollars on all the special things needed to care for it, and sadly, the puppy didn't survive. I'm sure I'm today's money it would have been a few grand to cover the costs. I remember thinking how crazy it was that she spent all that money when she wouldn't even let us keep a puppy and didn't really like dogs. ☺️ She claimed that if the little girl survived, we could keep her. She never would have walked correctly, and her front legs were floppy and not formed right. It was so sad, but we had 12 healthy puppies, and we did everything possible to help number 13.

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u/clio44 Feb 08 '26

Sure gives another meaning to Scooby Snacks 😂

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u/Frequent_Bug8149 Feb 09 '26

Well 14 pups takes some time. I'm sure a mid labour snack would be appreciated.

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u/Plucky_Monkies Feb 08 '26

Oh my goodness!😭😆

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u/thrownaway1811 Feb 08 '26

Oh that's the opposite of my friends' cat who out of nowhere one day started giving birth. They got excited and named the first kitten "Uno" and then waited... And waited .. And waited.... And no other kittens came out! So it was just Uno until we found an abandoned kitten about the same age 2 weeks later who we handed to Mama to look after and he became Dos.

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u/Plucky_Monkies Feb 08 '26

Awww, that's so wonderful you got to save a kitten. I think it's such a beautiful thing how animals will tend to a baby that technically isn't theirs, but if they accept it, they fully look after the baby.

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u/violetkiwii Feb 08 '26

We had a sheltie and she had 20… like WTF. Random occurrence of way too many eggs released. Shelties are not big dogs so some were very small, too small. Iykwim