Here's one I've never heard of before..... I have a cat that had 4 kittens and she nursed them for at least 8 weeks (probably closer to 10 weeks), but finally she refused to let them suckle any longer. They all seemed so heart-broken over this, but they were all healthy and had been eating canned food for a good while already.
What blew my mind is one of the kittens went over to one of my grown male cats and snuggled into him, found a nipple and started nursing on him! Maybe I could understand the kitten still looking for that comfort/closeness thing, but I couldn't believe a male cat would allow a kitten - and then two more to suckle on him!
I moved the kittens off of the male, but they would keep coming back and the male seemed just as happy to have them clamp on. Finally I noticed that the males nipples were starting to look bad, so made the extra effort to keep the kittens off him. Finally this behavior stopped, but just thought it was pretty strange.
Anybody else ever experience this?
What blew my mind is one of the kittens went over to one of my grown male cats and snuggled into him, found a nipple and started nursing on him! Maybe I could understand the kitten still looking for that comfort/closeness thing, but I couldn't believe a male cat would allow a kitten - and then two more to suckle on him!
I moved the kittens off of the male, but they would keep coming back and the male seemed just as happy to have them clamp on. Finally I noticed that the males nipples were starting to look bad, so made the extra effort to keep the kittens off him. Finally this behavior stopped, but just thought it was pretty strange.
Anybody else ever experience this?