My son's cat, Nelly, is very young,just a year. She just had a litter of kittens, my husband was in the hospital and my son let her out while she was in heat. She was supposed to go get spayed that afternoon. Sometimes I think my son is a total moron, but that's another thread. His dad was in the hospital and he was acting out. I guess. During her pregnancy mama cat mostly stayed in my room, she likes me better than him. She had her kittens last Saturday and struggled a little bit with attentiveness during the birth. She successfully had six kittens every one viable and I only had to deal with one cord and sack for her. We had a little scare with her yelping in pain and some bloody discharge and she had to go to the vet, I packed up her with the babes in a pet carrier. The vet tech took her from my car and did not take me inside due to the Coronavirus. Nelly seemed to recover as soon as we got home. Didn't seem too stressed out, however I have noticed something that concerns me. I noticed it around day 2. While cleaning her kittens Nelly will put her mouth around their throats not on the back of their necks on the front. She will also bite their faces I don't know if she's hurting them as they are usually protesting being cleaned when it happens. She grabbed them with her front paws and holds them and then licks & bites I've only seen it happen a couple of times, and I have tried to distract her verbally with her name and "NO" without touching her when it happens but I'm concerned she's being so very rough with such tiny kittens.
As a side note one of the kittens has a stuffy nose. I weighed them all today and he is the lightest of the bunch. I bought kitten formula but can't get him to try to nurse on the kitten bottle, any suggestions?
As a side note one of the kittens has a stuffy nose. I weighed them all today and he is the lightest of the bunch. I bought kitten formula but can't get him to try to nurse on the kitten bottle, any suggestions?
