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Hello! I have three kittens who are 17 weeks old today. They all started eating solid food of some sort at around 8 weeks old. Their mom and they were all spayed on June 15th. My question is when will they stop nursing completely if I leave them alone? I'm was an abandoned kitty that we took in from our neighbors, who ended up with the cat after a friend of theirs dumped her on their doorstep. They did not want her. She had one litter with them and she was pregnant again when we took over her care. I know she is afraid of being abandoned again, but we do our best to make sure she knows she has a permanent home now. I believe that she still nurses them partly out of comfort, but also, frankly, the kittens are all big enough to take her down and nurse whether she likes it or not. Separating everyone means throwing her outside again, which I do not want to do to her right now. She may misunderstand. Will she eventually dry up and stop nursing on her own at some point? I will not be getting rid of the three girl kittens, and I really do not care if they nurse for a while longer, but feeding them is problematic as long as they nurse too. I also do not want them to go back to nursing exclusively. It would seem they do not bite her enough for her to prevent them nursing either. Help?!