kitten problem...please help!?

Question

My cat, Callie had four babies about two weeks ago, (app. 16 days old), she's not making any more milk, and if she is, its not enough. What do I do? This is her second litter, and the first litter she only had three kittens and none of them survived. When I went to get her fixed, I found out she was pregnant again. All four lived, and our actually right on course with their development, but she isn't doing the milk thing right. I know she's suppose to wean them on her own, but not this early. Please help.

Answer 1

As people have said, feed your cat kitten food - this should be fed during pregnancy and lactation.

If the kittens are not getting milk, get a milk replacement formula from the petshop or vets, and a proper kitten feeder. Feed kittens as often as they cry for it, they will stop when they've had enough. Also wipe their bottoms after each feed with wet cotton wool to stimulate their pees and poos - their mum does this by licking their bottoms.

Please get Callie spayed when her kittens are weaned, it does not sound like she's having much luck with litters. Two litters is more than enough for any cat!

Chalice

Answer 2

There are two things that will help. Make sure your cat is getting enough good nutrition, by her fancy feast it's not on the recall list and most cats can't resist it. Another buy cat milk it's in grocery stores and pet food stores. Let the mother drink it and the kittens as well get a baby bottle from a vet they'll understand what your doint and will also give you advice. Sometimes the mother gets just to tired and the kittens are two weeks old so they need to be socialized so pick them up and hold them pet them give mom a break.
I really hope this works for you, my cat had three litters and I loved each kitten so much. Good luck. Also make sure mom's getting enough fresh water.

Answer 3

You can feed Callie kitten food, too. Also, she should be eating about twice as much as she normally does to support the making of milk. You can buy KMR at a pet store and feed the kittens with little syringes (take the needles off or get baby ones from the pharmacy.) They should be fed about every 4 hours, but they will start to eat kitten food in about two weeks. Keep momma cat in the mix, she will help you and keep letting the kittens try to nurse, this might stimulate milk production. Good luck.

Answer 4

If her milk production has stopped, you can take over. Get some kitten replacement formula from the pet store or your vet and bottle feed them. She can still help you care for them, if she is so inclined, but your additional feeding will take some of the strain off of her.
In about 2 weeks, you can start adding canned kitten food to the formula until it becomes too thick to get through the nipple, then introduce them to eating from a dish. Around 5-6 weeks old, you can introduce them to dry cat food (well moistened at first) and wean them onto that.

Answer 5

Maybe you should buy some kitten milk from a pet store, or the vet . My grandmas kitten did that too. she just went ad bout some kitten milk. get them fed one at a time through a bottle of if you have a couple of people living at your house and have enough bottle, then get the people to help feed them with you

Answer 6

I am so sorry to hear about that! Im not and expert...I've just been around cats and animals all my life, and I think that you may have to bottle feed them. heres what you do....go to a vet, a farm&fleet, or any place that you know that sells pet supplies and look for little kitten bottles. they're just like baby bottles..just kitten sized lol. your also going to need a packet of artificial milk replacer or better yet *colostrum*. There should be instructions on how to feed the them on one or both of the packages, if not just look on the net. This is just a suggestion, but I truely hope everything turns out!!

Answer 7

Try feeding her kitten food instead of regular cat food. It has more nutrients and should boost her milk production. If this doesn't work, I suggest buying a milk alternative made especially for kittens. There is a website with detailed instructions on how to bottle feed kittens as follows:
http://cats.about.com/cs/kittencare/ht/bottlefeed.htm
Hope that helps :)

Answer 8

Ok I've been in this same situation before...There's a milk recipe you can make at home for kittens and its cheap. http://www.kittenrescue.org/handbook.htm#Recipe go to that and click on "recipes for emergency kitten formula" You'll need to get a little tiny bottle from your veterinarian...and if you don't do this soon your babies might not make it. I hope I have been some sort of help...and good luck with those precious kitties!

Answer 9

I knew a redneck from Texas who named his son Mister. paradoxically his final call grew to become into Wright. the father pronounced that his son might constantly get appreciate if his call grew to become into Mister. definite, Kitten is a wierd call. i've got spoke of as girlfriends Kitten in the previous, yet basically as a nickname. i assume her mothers and fathers needed their daughter to have a memorable call. right here on the reservation little ones get the strangest names too. Names that don't even exist in distant places languages. i'm uncertain the place this predolection for unusual names on the reservation got here from although that is often happening to supply little ones names like ok'Shon, Willemeenia, Labrynth, Ruby pink, T'Shinga....the record is going on and on. It turns right into a discomfort in the butt once you are attempting to purchase customized espresso cups for adult males like that.

Answer 10

Contact your vet for advice and get Callie spayed as soon as possible.
It sounds as though she is not old enough to support her kittens.
With your vets help you can help the little ones; hope it all works out OK.