Here’s the problem: There are three kittens (16 days old), but only two of the mother cat’s nipples appear to be producing milk. (Originally three were, but one dried up or stopped producing or whatever a week ago and none of them will nurse from it anymore.) Two of the kittens are a lot larger than the third (both longer and fatter), so they just shove the little one aside when feeding time comes. I’ve tried feeding her kitten formula from a pet bottle to supplement whatever she manages to get when the others sleep, but she absolutely won’t drink it. When it looked like she was beginning to weaken, I panicked (a fourth kitten weakened and died within twenty-four hours of being born) and started intervening twice a day — in the morning before I leave for work and in the evening when I get home, distracting and holding off one of the larger kittens (usually the fattest one) until the little one has had a chance to fill her belly and drifts off to sleep. That definitely has helped. She’s gotten her fight back (and the fat one is still fat), but because of her smaller size, still can’t hold her own against the other two. If she manages to latch on before one of the others gets to the nipple, they just claw her head until she lets go, which resulted in a bloody spot on the top of her head, which then turned into a scab, then another bloody spot when they scratched it off.
Is there a way to stop this bad behavior?, more
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