Separating Mother cat and last kitten (same home)

[TigerTeacher]

We had a mother cat and her kittens come live with us. All of her kittens have now found homes and moved away, except one. One (our baby, 11 wks old) remains with us, and we're keeping the mother too.

Here's my question to all you cat experts out there. Mom needs to be de-wormed and later fixed. The minx had children really young and showed up on the backdoor step preggers. Anyway...

The vet says, "Just separate them for a week. The mother will stop giving milk, and then she can be given the de-wormer. She can't be given the de-wormer until she stops nursing the kitten."

Great in theory; hard in practice. We separated the two by putting the kitten in it's own room. It ccccccrrrriiiiiieeeeeeedddddd, and the mom kept coming by upsetting him more and more. We couldn't handle it longer than a day.

Anybody have any suggestions? Any way to get her to stop nursing him without physically separating them?

OH! I forgot one other thing... MOM's in HEAT! UGH! So, we're dealing with that on top of the other issues. Luckily, she isn't pushing to try to get by us and go out or anything. Mostly, she just moans and keeps her butt up in the air. Going out? Riiiiggghhhhtttt....that's just not happening. And she can't get fixed if she's in heat either.

Thanks! Any suggestions would be appreciated. I'm sure someone out there can solve this dilemma.

[aps45819]

Originally Posted by TigerTeacher

Anybody have any suggestions?

Stop feeding invasive species

[jedi2814]

Originally Posted by TigerTeacher

We had a mother cat and her kittens come live with us. All of her kittens have now found homes and moved away, except one. One (our baby, 11 wks old) remains with us, and we're keeping the mother too.

Here's my question to all you cat experts out there. Mom needs to be de-wormed and later fixed. The minx had children really young and showed up on the backdoor step preggers. Anyway...

The vet says, "Just separate them for a week. The mother will stop giving milk, and then she can be given the de-wormer. She can't be given the de-wormer until she stops nursing the kitten."

Great in theory; hard in practice. We separated the two by putting the kitten in it's own room. It ccccccrrrriiiiiieeeeeeedddddd, and the mom kept coming by upsetting him more and more. We couldn't handle it longer than a day.

Anybody have any suggestions? Any way to get her to stop nursing him without physically separating them?

OH! I forgot one other thing... MOM's in HEAT! UGH! So, we're dealing with that on top of the other issues. Luckily, she isn't pushing to try to get by us and go out or anything. Mostly, she just moans and keeps her butt up in the air. Going out? Riiiiggghhhhtttt....that's just not happening. And she can't get fixed if she's in heat either.

Thanks! Any suggestions would be appreciated. I'm sure someone out there can solve this dilemma.

Not much you can do to get the baby to stop nursing except keeping them physically apart. Ours didn't stop until we got mom fixed -then she stopped them. I think they would still be nursing if that hadn't happened!! They were 6 months old by then!!

[Crewdawg141]

Originally Posted by aps45819

Stop feeding invasive species

Or get a nice BIG Dog! Problems will be resolved via the natural way! Or you can just drop the kitten off at my girlfriends house (she is a sucker for cats, own 4 or 5 maybe 6 I dunno) and she will hold on to it until you come by and say I think that you have my cat.

[river rat]

Originally Posted by TigerTeacher

We had a mother cat and her kittens come live with us. All of her kittens have now found homes and moved away, except one. One (our baby, 11 wks old) remains with us, and we're keeping the mother too.

Here's my question to all you cat experts out there. Mom needs to be de-wormed and later fixed. The minx had children really young and showed up on the backdoor step preggers. Anyway...

The vet says, "Just separate them for a week. The mother will stop giving milk, and then she can be given the de-wormer. She can't be given the de-wormer until she stops nursing the kitten."

Great in theory; hard in practice. We separated the two by putting the kitten in it's own room. It ccccccrrrriiiiiieeeeeeedddddd, and the mom kept coming by upsetting him more and more. We couldn't handle it longer than a day.

Anybody have any suggestions? Any way to get her to stop nursing him without physically separating them?

OH! I forgot one other thing... MOM's in HEAT! UGH! So, we're dealing with that on top of the other issues. Luckily, she isn't pushing to try to get by us and go out or anything. Mostly, she just moans and keeps her butt up in the air. Going out? Riiiiggghhhhtttt....that's just not happening. And she can't get fixed if she's in heat either.

Thanks! Any suggestions would be appreciated. I'm sure someone out there can solve this dilemma.

I have no suggestions except to seperate them

Good on ya for stepping up and helping out mama and kittehs!

[sockgirl77 (Premo)]

Originally Posted by TigerTeacher

And she can't get fixed if she's in heat either.

Not true. It just costs more.

[Robin]

Originally Posted by TigerTeacher

We had a mother cat and her kittens come live with us. All of her kittens have now found homes and moved away, except one. One (our baby, 11 wks old) remains with us, and we're keeping the mother too.

Here's my question to all you cat experts out there. Mom needs to be de-wormed and later fixed. The minx had children really young and showed up on the backdoor step preggers. Anyway...

The vet says, "Just separate them for a week. The mother will stop giving milk, and then she can be given the de-wormer. She can't be given the de-wormer until she stops nursing the kitten."

Great in theory; hard in practice. We separated the two by putting the kitten in it's own room. It ccccccrrrriiiiiieeeeeeedddddd, and the mom kept coming by upsetting him more and more. We couldn't handle it longer than a day.

Anybody have any suggestions? Any way to get her to stop nursing him without physically separating them?

OH! I forgot one other thing... MOM's in HEAT! UGH! So, we're dealing with that on top of the other issues. Luckily, she isn't pushing to try to get by us and go out or anything. Mostly, she just moans and keeps her butt up in the air. Going out? Riiiiggghhhhtttt....that's just not happening. And she can't get fixed if she's in heat either.

Thanks! Any suggestions would be appreciated. I'm sure someone out there can solve this dilemma.

What about asking one of the other kitten families to take the kitten for a week or two? This way mom will have her chance to dry up and perhaps get fixed.

I separated kittens and mom in the same room using a large dog crate. I was able to get the litter box in it and food and water on the door of the crate. Perhaps put mom in there and leave the kitten out for socializing.