my cat just had her kittens a week and a day ago. she is a first time mum and she is really good at what she has to do. Over the last 2 days she has been singling the fatest one out, taking him behind my bed, feeding him, cleaning him, putting him to sleep and then leaving him. She has also bitten his neck and then starting kicking him and when we close her and the kittens in the laundry at night she gets him and puts him infront of the door untill someone comes but if no one comes she takes him back or waits with him untill someone comes or she relises no one is coming. If someone comes and opens the laundry door she takes him behind my bed, what should i do with her? is this normal?
2006-11-28 23:48:40 · 8 answers · asked by brenna12321 1 in Pets ➔ Cats
she had 4 kittens!
2006-11-29 16:33:32 · update #1
the kittens wasn't doing anything to the mum when she bit him, he was just sleeping. There are a few scabbs on my cat though becuase i think that her kittens have been scratching her.
2006-11-29 16:37:17 · update #2
That's very interesting. You don't say how many kittens she has. She may have more than she can handle. I don't know why she's doing this, but you need to seek a professional opinion from a veterinarian or a breeder of pedigreed cats. Not all cats know how to be good mothers. Sometimes you need to intervene and encourage. I don't think you should lock them up at night either. Let her and her kittens have a bed/box/nest in your room so she can be with you. It sounds like that's where she wants to be. When I rescued a mother cat, I put her and her 4 kittens in a box in my kitchen. Every night she would carry them one-by-one from the kitchen to under my bed and she would sleep with them there. Unfortunately, sometimes she would forget one behind and I'd have to carry him over to her. Remember, birthing and nursing kittens is exhausting to a mother cat. She needs extra food and calories to promote lactation and give her more energy. She wants to feel secure and protected and it sounds like "under the bed" is not all that uncommon. Consider putting them all together in your room where she obviously feels more safe. Good luck.
2006-11-29 02:24:45 · answer #1 · answered by Alleycat 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are several possible reasons your cat is doing this. One may be that she's found out that carrying a kitten around gets your attention. You don't say what he was doing when she bit him and kicked him. Sometimes a cat gets irritable when a baby kittens claws get long and sharp and the kitten digs those claws into her breast. Check the kittens claws and trim them, kitten claws grow very rapidly and the claws of a kitten even that young can sometimes be painful to a mother cat.
I always raised kittens with mother and kittens confined to a big cage, never loose in the house. That way I could easily monitor labor and birth, kitten health and development, the mother couldn't move them into any strange places, and there are many many other advantages to raising kittens in a big cage or crate. Kittens don't have to go very far to reach the litter pan when they first become old enough to train, you can put a heating pad on low under one end of the box the cat has her kittens in so that they can go to that end if they need extra heat, and if a kitten is out of the box, you can quickly find it and put it back if need be.
It is true that animals will single out a baby with a problem and carry it off elsewhere and leave it, but generally thats because the baby doesn't show the normal behaviors that stimulate maternal care (due to whatever the cause for the abnormality may be). You may want to have your vet check the kitten to make sure he doesn't have any defects or problems although if he is fattest, it sounds like he's probably healthy. Nervous first time mothers sometimes do strange things because of being first timers (another reason why I always like to confine a mother with babies to a big cage or crate for delivery and the first few weeks of raising the newborns.)
Cats and dogs with large litters of 6 or more sometimes will divide the litter into groups of 3 or 4 and then rotate between the two or three groups, feeding and cleaning one group while the other one sleeps.
I wonder what would happen if you gave your mother cat a box with a towel in the bottom and put the box in your bedroom near the spot she wants to put her kitten, and then put all her kittens in it, put her litter, food and water in your room, and then kept the cat and litter in your room with the door shut so she can't run all over the house? She may just settle down if her reason for going there with the kitten is that she likes that area behind the bed!
2006-11-29 00:18:56 · answer #2 · answered by TheSnakeWhisperer 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That's very strange OK i have an idea take Ur kittens to a place where Ur cat cannot find them hide the kittens for 1 day after a day give a surprise to ur cat by showing only the fattest one move away from the place and just watch what the cat is doing with the kitten remember that u shouldn't be watched by the cat if she is kind with the kitten then it is OK otherwise take her to a cat specialist don't mistake me i believe that it will work out OK bye.
2006-11-29 00:10:17 · answer #3 · answered by lion_boy k 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
That's very strange, check him out and see if there could be anything wrong with him, maybe something different from the rest of the litter.
It could be she favors that one kitten and wants to keep him away from the others.
If this is concerning you, call or take all of them to the Vet.
Hope this helps.
2006-11-28 23:53:50 · answer #4 · answered by eyes_of_iceblue 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
u need to try to stop her from doing this kitten this way....the reason she is doing it is cause when a mother thinks there is something wrong with one of her young she will push it away from her and the rest of the litter witch offten leads to death for the one left out...she may think that this kitten is not one of her own cause its so much bigger than the others ...but what ever the reason she thinks she has to push it away...if this continues the kitten will die unless u step in and make her take care of it properly...or u try hand feeding and takeing care of it urself but if u try this chances are slim it will live...its much harder for one to live without its mother even if u are careing for it like its mother is suppost to
2006-11-28 23:57:19 · answer #5 · answered by lil red 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Do you realize that for every 1 person born, there are 7 puppies and kittens
born? At best, 1 will find a forever home.
And don't forget, that every "Free-to-good-home" litter takes homes away
from animals already at the shelter.
STOP letting your pets; or your friends, relatives or co-workers pets
contribute to the problem.
If you love animals, it is NOT ENOUGH to merely say "My pets are fixed".
Vow to educate and enable others to fix their pets too.
Spaying just 1 female dog or cat, will prevent 6 others from ending up in a
shelter the following year.
Please be part of the solution, NOT the problem!
Thank you. ^..^
2006-11-28 23:54:36 · answer #6 · answered by kathyk214 5 · 0⤊ 4⤋
what she is doing is teaching them to grow up nice and big also she take the cats behind the bed because she think there be ok so no one will step on them
2006-11-28 23:57:28 · answer #7 · answered by mokieman_12 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
YES THATS NORMAL
2006-11-29 01:16:01 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋