gentle_gardener
gentle_gardener t1_iy2rxce wrote
Reply to comment by stiveooo in LPT Request: My cat, who has been living with my family for 1 year, keeps ignoring us. She won't let us get close to her and will run away whenever someone gets close to her. by MeeLegend3009
I can't believe you're saying something so untrue. It absolutely does effect them! A kitten is designed to stay with its mother for 6 - 8 weeks and the mother will search for them crying for days if they're removed before this time. Her milk will be at full flow at this time and every instinct will be telling her to feed her babies or they will die. Psychological trauma aside, she's also likely to get mastitis precisely because her milk is in full flow rather than naturally tapering off as the kits get older and are slowly weaned.
On top of that, kittens removed from their mother too early are much more likely to be difficult adults as theyve missed out on their mother's care and discipline at an important learning stage in life.
gentle_gardener t1_ixz5xgn wrote
Reply to LPT Request: My cat, who has been living with my family for 1 year, keeps ignoring us. She won't let us get close to her and will run away whenever someone gets close to her. by MeeLegend3009
If you didn't want more than one cat why haven't you had her neutered?
Eta, how old were the kittens when they were removed?
gentle_gardener t1_iy2s3u9 wrote
Reply to comment by MeeLegend3009 in LPT Request: My cat, who has been living with my family for 1 year, keeps ignoring us. She won't let us get close to her and will run away whenever someone gets close to her. by MeeLegend3009
Oh, she's likely to be missing him/her but she'll get over it. Like others have said here, give her time and space, it may take a while tho