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My cat mom just came back from two days at the vet where she was with antibiotics and was being checked because she (or the two kittens) broke her stitches. Now she is back, and with a cone to make sure those stiches are fine. However, my problem right now is that she keeps on looking for the kittens, which we keep separate out of fear of: 1. Them breaking the stitches 2. Them trying to drink milk after she was with antibiotics 3. That it would stress her. We are hand rearing the kittens, which makes us very worried because we are inexperienced in the matter, but they are gaining weight daily and only one is resisting the bottle, and they are already a week old. But right now i am on fear of the mom being sad because she knows the kittens are here (today when she got back went directly to the room where the kittens where and -like if nature spoke- a kitten made a small sound and she meowed back).
Which leads to my question... is it okay to reunite them now? If so, how should i? Should it be by supervised times (which leads to our fear of her being stressed when we separe them)? Or should we just let them be as normal?... the vet said 8 days till they take the stitches. And he has been nithing but confusing when it came to how to handle the kittens.
We are also cleaning her wound as advised by the vet, which makes us think is not good to reunite her because the kittens may lick skme of the meds we use to clean the wound (oxygenated water and betadine).
My cat mom just came back from two days at the vet where she was with antibiotics and was being checked because she (or the two kittens) broke her stitches. Now she is back, and with a cone to make sure those stiches are fine. However, my problem right now is that she keeps on looking for the kittens, which we keep separate out of fear of: 1. Them breaking the stitches 2. Them trying to drink milk after she was with antibiotics 3. That it would stress her. We are hand rearing the kittens, which makes us very worried because we are inexperienced in the matter, but they are gaining weight daily and only one is resisting the bottle, and they are already a week old. But right now i am on fear of the mom being sad because she knows the kittens are here (today when she got back went directly to the room where the kittens where and -like if nature spoke- a kitten made a small sound and she meowed back).
Which leads to my question... is it okay to reunite them now? If so, how should i? Should it be by supervised times (which leads to our fear of her being stressed when we separe them)? Or should we just let them be as normal?... the vet said 8 days till they take the stitches. And he has been nithing but confusing when it came to how to handle the kittens.
We are also cleaning her wound as advised by the vet, which makes us think is not good to reunite her because the kittens may lick skme of the meds we use to clean the wound (oxygenated water and betadine).