Keeping kittens from nursing

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Bobbi - 21 Jun 2004 18:25 GMT

The kittens are 10 weeks, and I've been unsuccessful in finding good
homes, so decided to keep both kittens and mother. They have been
weaned for over two weeks, and the queen was spayed and is almost
fully dry.
She screams non-stop to be with her kittens, and once they did get
together, the kittens were sucking as if it were their last meal and
she was allowing it. I sure would like to turn them all out together,
but I dont want milk production to start again, and she sure has no
desire to be free of her little ones.

What do I do next?

Thanks

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Sunflower - 21 Jun 2004 21:58 GMT

> The kittens are 10 weeks, and I've been unsuccessful in finding good
> homes, so decided to keep both kittens and mother. They have been
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> Thanks

Lock her in a bathroom or spare bedroom for a week or so.

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Laura R. - 21 Jun 2004 22:14 GMT

circa 21 Jun 2004 10:25:06 -0700, in rec.pets.cats.health+behav,
Bobbi (reiningrl@adelphia.net) said,

> The kittens are 10 weeks, and I've been unsuccessful in finding good
> homes, so decided to keep both kittens and mother. They have been
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> What do I do next?

Let her wean them on her own time, for starters. She knows better
than humans do when it is time for her kittens to get booted off the
nipple, and when she decides the time has come, she will do it.

Laura

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minerva nine - 22 Jun 2004 02:53 GMT

> The kittens are 10 weeks, and I've been unsuccessful in finding good
> homes, so decided to keep both kittens and mother. They have been
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> Thanks

What's wrong with letting them suckle until they're ready to
stop?

M9

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Karen Chuplis - 22 Jun 2004 04:10 GMT

> The kittens are 10 weeks, and I've been unsuccessful in finding good
> homes, so decided to keep both kittens and mother. They have been
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> Thanks

It won't. I had the same situation with a mom and kits growing up. Momma
mothered them until they were all very, very old. The nursing bit just
stopped naturally eventually, but they stayed very close their whole lives.

Karen

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-L. : - 22 Jun 2004 08:35 GMT

> The kittens are 10 weeks, and I've been unsuccessful in finding good
> homes, so decided to keep both kittens and mother. They have been
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> Thanks

Don't worry about it and let Momma cat wean them. She will eventually.

-L.

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