Have you ever seen kittens try to nurse off of each other?
By sedel1027
@sedel1027 (17846)
Cupertino, California
December 20, 2007 5:42pm CST
I was at the local pet store the other evening and they have cats up for adoption for a local no-kill shelter. This is the same place we got out two cats from. There were 3 kittens in a cage that were marked 3 months old, rescued from an abandoned house, and 2 of the three were trying to nurse off each other. There was a black cat who was laying in a cat bed, one striped cat was trying to nurse off of her(?) and the third cat was trying to nurse off of the striped cat. Have you seen this before? Any clue to why they were doing it?
I was concerned so I did talk to the manager and he had never seen these kittens do that before (they have been there about 2 weeks). He placed a call to the shelter about the behavior and brought it to the internal vets attention.
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@isaiah12 (416)
• United States
21 Dec 07
A few years ago my daughtre got a kitten from one of her friends at school. When we first brought him home it kept curling up by my mothers pomeranian trying to nurse off of him. The poor dog had no idea what to make of it. The kitten just missed its mother. Once he got used to his new home he was fine. But the dog began to hide under the couch when the kitten came near him.
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@UnselfishShellfish (1306)
• United States
24 Dec 07
I have 5 kittens that are from the same litter. They're all about 8 months old. They still, to this day, try to nurse any one of my older cats, even the males. It's a bonding thing that means they are content. It's the same thing as when they make bread against your leg or when they lie with you.
Nothing to be concerned about. I've got a 14 year old cat to this day that still makes bread.
I've heard it's b/c they were taken from their mother too young. I don't believe that. I've got 3 cats that lived outside until 6 months and still nursed, so no, they were not taken away too young.
