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recently i have had to seperate the males and the female kittens i am raising. before it was two males and two females so they each had company but last wed i lost dolly to Maddie is all by her self now. I fell horrible that she is by her self (with a stuffed dog) but she was sucking on the boys and was always (gross part) drinking there pee and getting covered in ther poo because she was stimulating them.

Is this okay to do? I tried putting them together again but she just went right back at them again.

also in a week or two they are going to out grow the little boxes i currently have them each in and was planning on putting them in the big dog crate we have, altogether . do you think that Maddie is still going to have this urge to "suck" her brothers or is she going to grow out of it
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Originally Posted by tinkerbell1314

recently i have had to seperate the males and the female kittens i am raising. before it was two males and two females so they each had company but last wed i lost dolly to Maddie is all by her self now. I fell horrible that she is by her self (with a stuffed dog) but she was sucking on the boys and was always (gross part) drinking there pee and getting covered in ther poo because she was stimulating them.

Is this okay to do? I tried putting them together again but she just went right back at them again.

also in a week or two they are going to out grow the little boxes i currently have them each in and was planning on putting them in the big dog crate we have, altogether . do you think that Maddie is still going to have this urge to "suck" her brothers or is she going to grow out of it
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It really isn't appropriate for Maddie to be suckling on her siblings..best thing to do is to provide her with a stuffed toy. Remember that kittens would normally be comforting themselves by sucking on their mom so you really need to provide Maddie with an alternative to her brothers:

http://www.kitten-rescue.com/kitten_suckling.html

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she does have a stuff dog with her. about the same size as her. i tried again to put them back together but she just started right away again.
 
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When we adopted Jazz and Juby our Juby would "suckle" on Jazz as well. Juby was just 6 weeks old (we'd rescued him at 4 weeks) and Jazz was 8 weeks old. Jazz never seemed to mind so we left it alone. Of course, Jazz never peed or pooed on Juby. Juby eventually quit after a couple of weels.
 
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yeah i wouldn't mind it so much (it doesn't really bother me) but they are still being stimulated (only 3 weeks old on thur) so every time Maddie sucks she "drinks" there pee and her whole head gets socked and poo covered so i don't think that it is very healthy for her and i am sick to death of bathing her 4x a day
 
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