My kittens are 8 weeks old and it looks like she still produces milk, is this normal? I am just worried about her health. thanks
2006-07-02 03:49:08 · 13 answers · asked by Schknappel 2 in Pets ➔ Cats
You have to make the kittens stop nursing, as long as they nurse on her she will produce milk. She needs to dry up now, it'll take a week or two.
2006-07-02 03:51:33 · answer #1 · answered by nuts4pets2 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Yes this is normally. However, even once the kittens start eating hard food, they will still go and try to drink milk from the mother. The mother will keep producing milk aslong as the kittens try to get suck off her.
My cat had a litter and i ended up keeping 1 of the kittens for over a year, it wasn't untill i stepped in and made sure she wasn't feeding off her mother, that her mother stopped producing milk, this was some 6 months after the kittens were born.
Its not bad for their health, but the sooner the kittens start eating solid food, the sooner you can find homes for them and the sooner the mother will stop producing milk.
2006-07-02 03:55:05 · answer #2 · answered by chicotjester 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
she will produce milk until she or you wean the kittens.. then she will start to dry up.. she should have been fed kitten food throughout her pregnacy and nursing period - I would suggest switching her back to adult food now.. if you are removing the kittens feeding her a really crappy food like Tender Vittles or Cat Chow will help her to dry up also..
at 8 weeks her kittens are old enough to be taken from her - I suggest taking them to the SPCA so they can screen potential new owners.. "free to good home" kittens seldom find good homes, in fact its estimated less than 40% live beyond 1 year in their "good home" I wont even tell you the worst of it... but lets just say you cannot screen people well enough and any good owner wouldnt take a free kitten they would be adopting one from the SPCA in the first place....
2006-07-02 03:54:48 · answer #3 · answered by CF_ 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Usually, kittens are weaned from 6-8 weeks
but if the babies are still suckling mum , and she lets them , she will continue to produce milk ,
they will stop feeding off mom ,as soon as they are fully weaned . And her milk will dry up naturaly .
Producing milk for her Kitty's will not harm her at all.
You may give her extra food , to give her the stamina, to continue
always have clean water available for her and her kitties when they want it .
2006-07-02 09:12:56 · answer #4 · answered by sweet-cookie 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
nicely, in idea all of it takes position easily even as mum comes to a decision it really is time... With my lady (stray who became pregnant when I were given her...) it became somewhat diverse! She did not end them nursing, and they were nonetheless blending sturdy and nursing at 10 weeks. by utilizing then they were also getting upset tums, and the vet reckoned they were starting to be lactose illiberal, so i became advised to wean them. in the initiating i tried keeping apart them a number of time... that did not artwork. So then I separated them in to diverse rooms each and every of the time, which i became advised must have her dry in 40 8 hours. a week later she nonetheless became bulging! She went up and down somewhat: i imagine in her case merely listening to the kittens became adequate to stimulate her. After that she became spayed. next day I did enable some the kittens who hadn't had such undesirable tums suck out the last milk. She's been flat bellied on condition that. they somewhat nonetheless suckle now and again even besides the undeniable fact that she wouldn't have milk. She does truly end them now and again now! So somewhat i'd say your brilliant guess is once the kittens are 8 weeks plus and ingesting solids nicely, get mum spayed. That way you could enable the kittens have the merely right, and he or she will be able to no longer be engorged. And save them longer. (i'm truly protecting all of mine! they are about 15 weeks now) there is drugs, besides the undeniable fact that it motives undesirable undesirable consequences, inclusive of hallucinations. truly no longer something you want!
2016-10-14 01:30:24 · answer #5 · answered by schwenck 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Usually when they get the kittens to stop nursing and some kittens are persistent but she will stop them and dry up when shes fed up with it
2006-07-02 03:54:29 · answer #6 · answered by Tonya H 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I dont think they ever stp.When the kittens get old enough then the mother will know && she will stop
2006-07-02 03:52:10 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes they keep milk till after she weens them.Then you have to train them on eating kitten food...
2006-07-02 03:54:46 · answer #8 · answered by "Olivia Loves Raoul" 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ween the kittens off when they can eat on their own.
2006-07-02 03:52:42 · answer #9 · answered by Sue Chef 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Thank you! extremely informative and this gives me better insight on the subject
2016-08-23 01:00:23 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋