My one year old had five beautiful kittens who are now five and a half weeks old. They are using the litter tray, eating dry and wet food but still suckling mummas milk. I now only let her in with the kittens at night. What should i do now? I have found good homes for four of the babies. I would like to put as little stress on them all as possible.
2006-10-09 22:09:14 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Pets ➔ Cats
I wouldn't reccommend letting them go at 8 weeks. A kitten, just like a human baby, receives all of it's antibodies initially from it's mothers milk. At 8 weeks, it's own immune system is just starting to take over and try to produce it's own antibodies. Now add the stress of being taken away from its mom, siblings and you, and you are almost guarenteed that it is going to get sick. Kittens also learn how to be cats from their mom and siblings. If you take a kitten away too soon, it can suffer emotional/behavioural problems later. I would suggest that you keep them until AT LEAST 10 weeks old, with 12 weeks being the best option. A 12 week old kitten will definitely bond just as well with a new family and will be old enough, and well developed enough to quite happily deal with the stresses related to going to new owners.
Oh, and make sure that they are all up to date with their shots too!
2006-10-09 23:18:19 · answer #1 · answered by Karring Kat 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You sound like a concerned and caring person and are lucky to have found "good" homes for the kittens. Since others have already provided you with an answer to your question, except for how to put less stress on your cat. That would be for you to take the next step and prevent your cat from having another litter and having to go through this again. Spaying prevents health problems in your cat in the future and saves the lives of other animals who already exist who need the good homes you found for your cat's kittens.
http://www.hsus.org/pets/pet_care/why_you_should_spay_or_neuter_your_pet.html
2006-10-13 11:13:07 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
let the mother sleep on a unwanted towel or some other soft cloth the night befour a kitten is going ,then send the cloth with the kitten to sleep with ,it will still have mothers scent and will relax the kitten at night
2006-10-09 22:30:12 · answer #3 · answered by sally 1 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
All the time they are with mum they will suckle, 8 weeks is about the right age to be seperated
2006-10-09 22:29:18 · answer #4 · answered by Jellybean 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
She needs to have her kittens around for a few more weeks yet.
Then, slowly take one away at a time to its new home. If you take them all at the same time, mum with suffer.
2006-10-10 01:30:20 · answer #5 · answered by sarah071267 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
in case you care approximately him you will not positioned him on craigslist - era. resign him to a no-kill preserve so as that the preserve can genuine reveal screen the adopter, neuter him, get him as much as this point on photographs, etc. How do you have in simple terms one kitten? in case you observed this kitten from a preserve and can longer preserve it you should take it lower back to the preserve you purchased it from.
2016-11-27 04:10:36 · answer #6 · answered by gyllenband 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋