Good morning all,
I am a new mom to 2 male kitten brothers- Toby and Hats. They were found outside of a building and rescued, and we adopted them in December. They are approximately 10 weeks old.
Toby is what I call the "bruiser" of the two - he's always exploring, running, jumping, etc. and shows no fear.
Hats is more timid and not as agile.. but whatever Toby does, he will do about 2 minutes later
The kittens seem to do everything together.
I've noticed at night that Toby starts to suckle on Hats... he really gets "all in there" and just goes to town. Hats' belly will be soaking wet even. It bothers me as I've never seen this behavior, especially in male cats - is this common? What can I do- or should do - to redirect Toby from doing this at night.. for hours? They are happy, they purr and such.. but it kind of grosses me out. No matter what I do to try and stop it - Toby just goes right back to Hats and suckles him again. I'd almost rather him get attached to a blanket rather than doing it on the other male kitten, but so far nothing has seemed to work.
Any advice or thoughts ?
I am a new mom to 2 male kitten brothers- Toby and Hats. They were found outside of a building and rescued, and we adopted them in December. They are approximately 10 weeks old.
Toby is what I call the "bruiser" of the two - he's always exploring, running, jumping, etc. and shows no fear.
Hats is more timid and not as agile.. but whatever Toby does, he will do about 2 minutes later
I've noticed at night that Toby starts to suckle on Hats... he really gets "all in there" and just goes to town. Hats' belly will be soaking wet even. It bothers me as I've never seen this behavior, especially in male cats - is this common? What can I do- or should do - to redirect Toby from doing this at night.. for hours? They are happy, they purr and such.. but it kind of grosses me out. No matter what I do to try and stop it - Toby just goes right back to Hats and suckles him again. I'd almost rather him get attached to a blanket rather than doing it on the other male kitten, but so far nothing has seemed to work.
Any advice or thoughts ?