Hi! New here..and new to raising kittens as well. My baby Luna had her first litter of 6 kittens. They will be 5 weeks on Saturday, June 8th.
Mom seems like she is over nursing. She let's them nurse for about 5 minutes, not even..and then gets up and leaves them..some of them literally will have just started eating. Only 1 of the 6 will eat wet food, and he just started trying out the hard food today..but he doesnt eat much of it. I have tried giving them just KMR, I tried KMR mixed in their wet food, I tried blending hard food with KMR, tried just wet food, tried wet and hard food mixed, and tried just hard food..they will sometimes lick it off of my fingers but usually just smell it and run away. They refused to use a bottle, I tried that a few times..so my question is should i be worried? Is there anything else I can try to help them wean? Mom IS still letting them nurse, so I know they are eating at least a little bit. But I'm not sure if shes letting them eat enough so I'm worried. Also, if I leave her in the room with them when I try to get them to eat, they will go up to the food and smell around and look curious about it, but she runs over and moves them out of the way at eats the entire bowl..even when I make her the same exact thing and give it to her at the same time..she wont eat hers and will run to their bowl..is it normal for mom to eat their food?
Thank you in advance !!
Mom seems like she is over nursing. She let's them nurse for about 5 minutes, not even..and then gets up and leaves them..some of them literally will have just started eating. Only 1 of the 6 will eat wet food, and he just started trying out the hard food today..but he doesnt eat much of it. I have tried giving them just KMR, I tried KMR mixed in their wet food, I tried blending hard food with KMR, tried just wet food, tried wet and hard food mixed, and tried just hard food..they will sometimes lick it off of my fingers but usually just smell it and run away. They refused to use a bottle, I tried that a few times..so my question is should i be worried? Is there anything else I can try to help them wean? Mom IS still letting them nurse, so I know they are eating at least a little bit. But I'm not sure if shes letting them eat enough so I'm worried. Also, if I leave her in the room with them when I try to get them to eat, they will go up to the food and smell around and look curious about it, but she runs over and moves them out of the way at eats the entire bowl..even when I make her the same exact thing and give it to her at the same time..she wont eat hers and will run to their bowl..is it normal for mom to eat their food?
Thank you in advance !!
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