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Yes, that's 10 cats At one point there were 7 cats here and all the cats were ecstatic because it achieved some kind of critical mass. I'm hoping now that mama has found her own place that we'll have something of that nature again. It's interesting at one point I decided I was keeping them...

I've ordered a product called Feliway which will help take away the mama cat's scent. I know this will help my older cats. I brought two of the older ones in, one at a time, for a few minutes today. They left shortly, but it was a start. They have heard me tell them that the mama has left for...

I wanted to thank you for your previous input and to let you know that, despite my husband's attachment to the momma cat, we have found a (very) good home for her, because the hostilities with our existing and very precious cats simply did not appreciably improve despite all our efforts...

About peeing and pooping: Mama cat would not toilet the kittens. I realized when they were a week old that she was not licking them at all. I got some advice from our vet's assistant and wound up toileting them myself, which meant until they got litter trained at 40 weeks old I was up several...

Ok. I've put the barrier back up so the kittens can't get downstairs. Mama will still be able to get up and down but that situation was calming down before the kits started going downstairs too, so this might just be an important part of the answer, till they are 10 or 12 weeks old. Thanks...

Thank you for your assurance that mama cat will calm down when the kittens are old enough to fend for themselves. Question: When will she consider that they are so? They are 8 weeks old now. We live in an open-plan house which means the only doors are on the bathrooms. This is part of why we've...

I'm seeking input on a problem. 2 months ago a pregnant, starved cat arrived here and that night had 6 kittens. I fixed up a box and put it upstairs, then we blocked off the stairs, so the kittens have been upstairs the whole time. The mama cat has fought almost continuously with our 4 cats who...