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Conference misery::feline_v1

Title:Meower Power is Valuing Differences
Notice:FELINE_V1 is moving 1/11/94 5pm PST to MISERY
Moderator:MISERY::VANZUYLEN_RO
Created:Sun Feb 09 1986
Last Modified:Tue Jan 11 1994
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:5089
Total number of notes:60366

4932.0. "Not enough milk to go around...." by COASTL::NDC (Putiput Scottish Folds DTN:297-2313) Thu Sep 12 1991 15:12

    Another piece of feline info that I was forcefully and unpleasantly
    reminded of recently.
    
    One of the reasons a mother cat will abandon some of her litter is
    that she doesn't have enough milk to feed them all.  This happened
    recently with a cat that I had helped rescue.  Unfortunately the
    person who was caring for the cat and kittens didn't know what
    was going on and didn't ask for help.  Four out of Five kittens
    starved to death. 
    
    The mother would take all but one kitten to the corner of the room
    and leave them there.  If the kittens were returned to her she
    would push them away with her paws and refuse to let them nurse.
    
    People may mistakenly interpret this situation as one where there
    is something wrong with the kittens, but you should never make
    that assumption.  In this case, bottle feeding *might* have 
    saved the litter.
      Nancy DC
    
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