rg_girlca
10-31-2006, 09:53 PM
I have some questions for those who have had experience with a mother cat and her babies.
I find that Sweetpea seems to be very aggressive at times when cleaning P-Pod. She will hold him down and just lick and lick and lick and then put her mouth around his neck or around the top of his head. It doesn't seem like she is actually biting him, but she seems agitated when she does this and P-Pod squeals from it. She also makes this high pitched mmrrff, mmrrff noise while doing it.
Could you tell me if this is a normal behaviour or not because I hate it when she does that.
Also when she goes into him she will curl herself up in a tight ball and he has to fight his way to get to a nipple. She doesn't seem to lay properly right away to feed him. She just starts licking the heck out of him. It's a wonder he has any fur left on him.
Is this something that they normally do also?
I spoke with my vet yesterday in regards to hand feeding P-Pod, because I am having such a hard time with it. He fights me all the way. I can't even get the full amount into him. He just screams his little head off and poor Sweetpea gets upset by it. The vet feels that with the way he is growing and thriving that Sweetpea is producing enough milk for him, so he said for me to stop feeding him and just keep an eye on him, but feels he will be okay now, because he feeds off of her about every 3 hours. P-Pod is 10 days old now.
Thanks for any info you can give me.
I find that Sweetpea seems to be very aggressive at times when cleaning P-Pod. She will hold him down and just lick and lick and lick and then put her mouth around his neck or around the top of his head. It doesn't seem like she is actually biting him, but she seems agitated when she does this and P-Pod squeals from it. She also makes this high pitched mmrrff, mmrrff noise while doing it.
Could you tell me if this is a normal behaviour or not because I hate it when she does that.
Also when she goes into him she will curl herself up in a tight ball and he has to fight his way to get to a nipple. She doesn't seem to lay properly right away to feed him. She just starts licking the heck out of him. It's a wonder he has any fur left on him.
Is this something that they normally do also?
I spoke with my vet yesterday in regards to hand feeding P-Pod, because I am having such a hard time with it. He fights me all the way. I can't even get the full amount into him. He just screams his little head off and poor Sweetpea gets upset by it. The vet feels that with the way he is growing and thriving that Sweetpea is producing enough milk for him, so he said for me to stop feeding him and just keep an eye on him, but feels he will be okay now, because he feeds off of her about every 3 hours. P-Pod is 10 days old now.
Thanks for any info you can give me.