What Does it Take to Run a Kitten Nursery?

The key fostering a nursing mom with neonatal kittens is to keep her life as stress-free as possible. Right now it is taking the best care of nursing mama cat so that she care for her 14 day old kittens. Neonatal kittens need her more than they need you. And while you will need to interact with them to weigh them and change bedding (which also depends a lot of how mom is as to how often you should… if mom is protective and they are plumb and don’t cry then don’t stress her, do periodically so th

A newborn kitten is painted blue and abandoned in the rain

At four weeks old the weaning process will start, as the kittens can process solid food. So it’s important to have small morsel kitten food they can eat (kitten food is also still great for her as she’ll still be nursing). The great thing about fostering a nursing mom is the kittens will also follow her lead. So they’ll be curious about the food, they’ll try to mimic her. But they definitely do best if they are still with mom, so this is not the age to adopt them out! There’s so much they can st