When Can A Kitten Eat On Her Own?

I absolutely love your info here and on your website, but I don't understand the obsession with always using female pronouns to refer to kittens. It's annoying. It's not like male kittens don't exist.

So glad I found your channel! I have a litter of 6 that I believe ( based off what you have shared about age and what the shelter said) are just 4 weeks old. The shelter told me they are on gruel (watered down canned food). However, most don't know how to eat it on their own and they are all sucking on each other and meowing a lot. I think they need bottled formula in addition to the canned food they have been eating. All stools are good at this point. I just got them yesterday. My question is, should I go ahead and get them back on bottled formula? I don't want to mess up their tummies but i think they need the nursing time and extra nutrients. I am syringe feeding them and they are suckling when they eat.

I found 6 kittens just days old in a box who were thrown away like trash. I volunteer at a shelter and I know how overworked they already are. I'm not working right now so I have time to raise them and get them adopted.

my 9 day old kitten chews my fingers even after eating. Is he teething?

What if my 5 1/2 week old kitten is not at all interested in eating meat?

Smoky and stormy and bandit eat off the same plate together and they just walk away and they’re done sometimes smoky a little bit more

actual video starts at 4:17

I have 5 11 week olds that still nurse some. They love canned and dry and a little time with mama.

Your videos are so informative, very helpful!!!! Thank you!!!

I got my kitten at 4 weeks and got her onto formula .. she’s my first kitten and she’s 5 weeks now and onto solids but she still wants her milk too .. when do I stop the formula altogether ?

When you explain important things don't be over smart showing you are extremely caring. Please

My 7 week old will not eat food … no matter what!
Not slurry in a bottle, not slightly watery wet kitten food, not dry food, not slightly wetted kibble, not in a bowl. .. NOT AT ALL.

I tried the slurry in the bottle and he chewed the nipple off (fortunately it fell out of his mouth) … I literally had a breakdown this morning.

He & his brother will ONLY take a bottle.
H E L P

My kitten is 4 weeks old and she barely eat wet food just so and I'm currently trying to give her wet food suitable for kittens. So now I mixed with milk so she can get the taste.She would more prefer the friskies with gravy but that is for adult cats.

I Rescued slightly sick isolated kitten, the shy mother never to be seen again and other possible cat moms nearby showing no interest.
That kitten was not interested at all in soft non milk food from age 3to5 weeks, slowly introducing at least the smell of some tiny bits to be licked.
then she suddenly was very interested, and ate 3 whole meals at once, and puked out the last 2 of them from overfeeding.
That was a rough lesson, that the new food needs more time and has other capacity limits.
She is growing fast and normal weight for age+length.
She knows ALL the different foods for cats and tends to be picky.

They will never eat normal if you give the bottle too long

When I was in college, and we're talking back in the early 70s, a fellow student dumped (kindly) a trio of little newborns on my roomie and me, whose cat mother had been hit by a car. Because I had a cat I adopted at about five weeks who had a rough start, she thought I would know what to do. Well, I didn't, with infants less than a week old, and calls to a vet brought only the advice that we would not succeed and we should surrender them to be euthanized.
I wish I could say it was a happy ending, but one by one we watched them try their hardest to live and not make it.

They were born good sized from a clean, healthy mother and had no worms or fleas, and a competent carer would have saved them, no question. I've never forgotten it, or how hard my roommate took it each time we lost one (I was putting myself through a music major as a hospital nurse's aide, and had a little more realistic view of sickness and death). These little instructional videos are golden, and I can tell you I committed myself each of the mistakes Kitten Lady talks about, and how simple it is to give the little life what it needs if you only know how.

To the memory of little Faith, Hope and Love. I have never forgotten them.