Im sorry to be bothering with posting so much, but Im haing a few issues with my cat I rescued over a month ago, who just had kittens 2 days ago. The Mamma (Shiva) is very young herself. The vet estimated her to be roughly 7-9 months old. Its very clear she was somebodies house pet before we found her. We found her pregnate, though I had no clue she was till I started feeling movement roughly 2 weeks later. She just had a litter of 3 kittens 2+ days ago. Mama keeps leaving her kittens whenever I walk away from her, and keeps leaving them in general. I have to keep making her go back by her babies, and have to gesture her lay down to feed them. She stays and feeds them as long as me, or one of my kids (who are older) stay by her, but its very grueling and tedious. We have to stay by her or she will not feed them. They are getting plent of mammas milk but like I said it is quite difficult on us humans. Mamma is getting fixrd as soon as the kittens are weined off the teet. Another problem were having is shes not picking them up right. Shes actually using her fangs to grab them, and you can tell it hurts them. I know its normal for mamma cats to do that, but for her to be that rough.....Ive seen lots of videos and have done so much research and yes in those vidz the babies meow but its nothing near to what Shivas kittens do when she picks them up. They scream. So oit of everything Ive just written, does anyone have any pointers or tips for me ad far as getting mamma to feed her babies like she should, and or get her to stop using her fangs on them so hard? I need all the help I can get. Thanks for reading this post and i hope someone has answers or resolutions to all the issues were having. Id appreciate any help. Never done this before.
