Can a kitten leave it's mum at 3 weeks?

zaksmum

gettingready wrote: »

Zaksmum - I have no idea where you are .. in London I am sure Celia Hammond would be happy to help in case like that.....

Thanks but we're in the north west...a long way from London.

gettingready

Steal the kitten?

If they are stupid enough to take a 3 week one on, they may be stupid enough to let it out already....

Srill- fingers crossed the little mite survivews.. I still remember when we los one of Lucy's babies at around 4 weeks.....despite rushing him to the vets

calicocat

Not that I want to advocate running around stealing pets BUT this is quite a desperate situation and I agree. To be honest in a weeks time and she's run out of fag money from what you say she could may well give it you if you asked.....or offered her a fiver for it now ?..as time is important as it's so young.?.......and to be honest in this situation I personally wouldn't even call it stealing....it's sneaky rescue.

Mrs_Huggett

If you were in London I would be round like a flash, having just gone through 4 weeks of trying to locate the owners of a cat I found I can safely say that I am in no mood for this sort of stupidness, AND if I was in your shoes I am sorry to say that I would probably have taken this poor little mite from this idiot and told her go fetch the police then!!!! Sorry but this has made me so angry!!

marmiterulesok

That's far too young.:(

Three months is the earliest time for a kitten to leave Mum.

moggymutt

Please remember that zaksmum is in a difficult position here, falling out with neighbours could make her own famiy's life hell.

zaksmum

I couldn't take or steal the kitten anyway as I've got two dogs who sadly are totally intolerant of cats.

The poor little thing has a far better chance of survival where she is now than if she came to my house!

Fire_Fox

Have you contacted the RSPCA? That is at least legal, stealing a kitten is not.

juliebunny

If this kitten really is 3 weeks old then it's barely even had it's eye opened or learning to pull itself around and won't be able to keep itself warm. Let's hope she was exaggerating....as others have said, it's unlikely to survive at that age away from it's mum. God help that poor mum cat too unless they come to their senses and get her speyed.

If only this wasn't a one off story instead of the epidemic of irresponsible pet 'owners' across the country who can't be bothered to get their cats neutered.

Ladyshopper

Contact the RSPCA.

I know it gets a bad press, but I can only speak from my experience fostering for them for the past 2 years, and in my area at least they would definitely do something about that.