Can my cat get any health problems by nursing when she is not the mother nor ever has been one?
crwallberg asked:
My cat has been nursing our newest kitten for about the past 2 months (I’m pretty sure no milk is produced and he does perfectly fine with his food). She is not his mother nor has she ever had kittens (she thinks she is his mom though). The kitten was 9 weeks when we got him and he started nursing from her a few weeks later. I thought it would stop relatively quickly since he was getting way too old to nurse but he is about 4 months now and she is still letting him nurse. Can she get any health problems from this or start having false pregnancies? If so how can i stop this behavior?
Kanye
My cat has been nursing our newest kitten for about the past 2 months (I’m pretty sure no milk is produced and he does perfectly fine with his food). She is not his mother nor has she ever had kittens (she thinks she is his mom though). The kitten was 9 weeks when we got him and he started nursing from her a few weeks later. I thought it would stop relatively quickly since he was getting way too old to nurse but he is about 4 months now and she is still letting him nurse. Can she get any health problems from this or start having false pregnancies? If so how can i stop this behavior?
Kanye
Tags: Cat Kitten, Nurse, Pregnancies
February 25th, 2009 at 7:47 pm
She can have sore, irritated, lacerated teets,… besides it isn’t normal at this stage or age.
Fixed your female cat, spay,.. this should have been done, it may curb her abnormal maternal instinct.
As far as the kitten, he should be on solid foods by now. He will have a weaning (sucking material, objects, etc.) afixation problem if he doesn’t stop.
So spay the surrogate mom and deter the kitten with playtime, etc.
February 28th, 2009 at 1:44 pm
The vets office the results are tested from him if he makes her nipples sore shell put stop to start his nursing on your female cat will cause any problems if he was born with it as far as causing false pregnancy goes doubt it it it it it is old enough.
An immune deficiency disease both diseases are ready in about 5000 its just thing that she could catch feline leukemia and fiv an immune deficiency disease both cats.