We have two sister cats that both had a litter within a week of each other. Savek had four underneath our porch and Vash had six in the barn (one died shortly after birth 
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Yesterday we had an amazingly heavy rain. Four inches of rain. The porch flooded and after a frantic half hour we managed to pry the boards up and save Saveks kittens. But Savek was no where to be found. So we dried the kittens off and gave them to Vash.
Vash excepted them and nursed them like her own and seems to be taking care of all nine kittens just fine.
We're trying to get Savek to take her kittens back but she doesn't seem to want them.
So my question is, can one cat take care of nine kittens by herself?
All but one seems under weight and the slightly older kittens aren't pushing the younger ones away from nursing. I'm not exactly sure how old they are but there eyes are open and they can barely crawl.
If you could help me and ten kitties would be very grateful.
)Yesterday we had an amazingly heavy rain. Four inches of rain. The porch flooded and after a frantic half hour we managed to pry the boards up and save Saveks kittens. But Savek was no where to be found. So we dried the kittens off and gave them to Vash.
Vash excepted them and nursed them like her own and seems to be taking care of all nine kittens just fine.
We're trying to get Savek to take her kittens back but she doesn't seem to want them.
So my question is, can one cat take care of nine kittens by herself?
All but one seems under weight and the slightly older kittens aren't pushing the younger ones away from nursing. I'm not exactly sure how old they are but there eyes are open and they can barely crawl.
If you could help me and ten kitties would be very grateful.
When I was a kid, we had 2 female kitties, mother and daughter, who gave birth the same night. Bones had 6 kittens on my oldest brother's bed and Cotton had 5 on my other brother's bed! They then put all the kittens together and took care of each other's kittens. We didn't know which kitten belonged to which mama!
