Newborn Kittens Care With Mom

Postnatal care of a mother cat and her newborn kittens.

Newborn kittens care with mom. Learn about the spruce pets editorial process. If you have newborn kittens who ve been separated from their mother consult with a veterinarian shelter or experienced foster care giver who can help you find a new mother cat with a small litter she may be able to nurse the orphaned babies. Similar to human babies providing newborn kitten care involves making sure that their primary needs are met. Most of the time this is because the mother cat is either unable to care for her kittens properly or she doesn t want to.

Newborn kittens should get all of their nutrition from their mother. Excreting on their own. Nelva bryant is a doctor of veterinary medicine and a retired lcdr in the u s. You can step in and help.

Wrap a heating pad or hot water bottle in a blanket to create a warm bed but position it so that your kitten can move away from it if she gets too warm. Franny is an award winning freelance writer who has been writing about cats since 1997. Like a human baby a newborn kitten will need to be fed frequently approximately every two to three hours. If your kitten has been abandoned you ll need to keep her warm.

To assist you in your kitten care you can picture the correct amount if you know one teaspoon is just. Within 4 to 6 weeks kittens go from being totally dependent on their mom to being self sufficient. Keep an eye on the heating pad to ensure that it s working properly and that it doesn t get too hot or. Your role of taking care of newborn kittens and a mother cat is mostly one of observation.

At 3 4 weeks old provide. The most critical time in a kitten s life is during the initial 3 5 weeks. Of course you have to be extra in giving your caring to it. You step in if the mother or kittens appear to be in trouble and to socialize the kittens to become used to people.

Caring a kitten with age beneath three weeks without a mother is quite difficult than your things. As a rule of thumb for every ounce of kitten body weight he or she needs 8 ccs of formula. If the mother cat is not around you ll need to prepare and feed them yourself. You need to watch to see whether the kittens are.

Do an act quickly when you find the abandoned kittens without mother time. If the kittens are 1 2 weeks old bottle feed them with milk replacer formula every 1 2 hours. The first milk produced called colostrum is rich in antibodies and will help protect kittens against diseases. A mother cat s milk provides everything a kitten needs during the first four weeks of life.

So a kitten weighing 3 ounces will need about 24 ounces of milk replacement every 24 hours. About the mother cat. If you cannot find a foster mother please consult with. Bryant dvm mph reviewed on 08 10 20 by.

This will continue until they gradually transition to solid foods when they are around four weeks old weaning. While that is a sad fact it doesn t mean that you can do nothing but let your cat s newborns be a part of the statistics. Abandoned kittens are different treatments not like the cats as a baby they need more concern from us as an owner to giving full love them. Newborn kittens cuddle up with their mother and siblings to stay warm.

To care for newborn kittens when the mother cat is still present feed the mother to keep her strength up but leave the kittens alone for the first week to ensure the mother doesn t reject them. The mother cat typically handles all those duties on her own.