Milk production is not controlled by the ovaries, but the brain, so the suckling effect can induce milk production again, even in a spayed female.
Mas writes:
It has been a week now and they still have not opened their eyes. They have been dumped in a small paper shopping bag right after birth and the umbilical cords were still attached. I took a very long shot and put them with a newly spayed female cat with a terrific sweet personality and she hissed only for 2 seconds and took to them immediately. They all sucked hard on her teats which had absolutely no milk at all. But a miracle happened and slowly, with the stimulation from the hungry sucking kittens, milk slowly began to flow and yesterday I noticed her milk glands swollen with lots of milk (see pics, seeing is believing!).
The kittens have also grown in size and look round and well-fed. I am taking baby-steps, one day at a time. Without the milk from the spayed surrogate mum, the kittens would have died. The pics are beautiful and looking at them makes my heart so warm and nice. Thank God for the miracles.
Behold...the beautiful wonders of Mother Nature:
Miracles do happen...if you believe.
And most importantly, if you make the effort!
Mas made the effort, and the Universe provided an answer.
4 comments:
What a heartwarming story! Thanks to Mas and the mum-cat. Mum-cat actually looks like an older kitten herself.
awwwww..they're so so so adorable. good job mas :)
those pics just melt my heart :)
chubby-nya!
And the mother cat looks alittle like Joanie. Those were the days... =)
I actually fed Mama cat with cans and cans of A/D (I took a carton from a sympathetic vet who gave me a discount) from Day 1 to maximise her nutritional intake and she ate so voraciously that she dried up my pocket! But it was extremely rewarding because Mama quickly converted everything into ample milk that managed to pull 3 tiny, scrawny young lives back from the brink of death.
Just look at those round little bellies :-) ....
KY, how I wish we could find a similar female cat for your 3 tiny kittens ... what a huge,huge difference it would make ...
Love,
MAS
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