Update on Siamese

My siamese kittens are almost four weeks old and I have some questions. How active are they suppose to be at four weeks? Sarah (the mother) insists that the kittens sleep on a cat bed on my bed. If I move them elsewhere she moves them right back. The kittens walk and play around on my bed but they dont want to go on the floor yet. If I put one on the floor or take it out of the room it just lays on the ground and cries for its mother. It does not want to walk anythere but on the bed. Sarah is a very protective mother. She does not want the kittens taken anywhere but the bed. If we do take it out of the room she cries at us until we put it back.
Also, the kittens are still not eliminating on their own. All three of the adult cats seem to want to eat their elimination. They all stimulate them. I have not seen any kittens eliminate yet.

Originally Posted by megmar6853

My siamese kittens are almost four weeks old and I have some questions. How active are they suppose to be at four weeks? Sarah (the mother) insists that the kittens sleep on a cat bed on my bed. If I move them elsewhere she moves them right back. The kittens walk and play around on my bed but they dont want to go on the floor yet. If I put one on the floor or take it out of the room it just lays on the ground and cries for its mother. It does not want to walk anythere but on the bed. Sarah is a very protective mother. She does not want the kittens taken anywhere but the bed. If we do take it out of the room she cries at us until we put it back.
Also, the kittens are still not eliminating on their own. All three of the adult cats seem to want to eat their elimination. They all stimulate them. I have not seen any kittens eliminate yet.

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At 4 weeks old, kittens will usually just begin to want to explore outside their nest, in this case, your bed. (I made the same mistake - won't do that again!) What I did was to confine Lexus and the kittens in a large dog crate and moved them out into the living room, where they could begin to acclimate to the normal routines of my home. I also introduced a litter box and moist food at that time. Once the babies were all consistantly using the litter and eating on their own (about 24 hours in my case), I opened the crate and gave them free roam of the downstairs.

Young, developing muscles need lots of room to move, stretch and practice running around. Activity levels at 4 weeks should allow for this and you should begin to see babies trying to go over the side of your bed. That is when I would allow them out into the main part of your home, but confined at first.

If things aren't moving along in the next week or so, you might want to move them along yourself by putting the kittens out into the main part of your home for socialization and learning the finer points of felinity.

Hope this helps,

~gf~