685 Stew (2/2)

Time slowly ticked away. Although Snowy had no patience for fishing, she was surprisingly very focused on feeding the kittens. She wasn't in the least bit frustrated or annoyed. She even asked, ”I understand feeding the kittens milk with children's multivitamins, it's very nutritious. Why do you need Crucian Carp stew to stimulate the mother's milk?”

”It's healthier and better for the kittens to drink their mother's milk. Kittens that depend on milk powders have a higher mortality rate, and they grow up to be thin and small.

Zhang Zian put on a kitchen mitt and carried over a warm pot of the stew. The stew also had goat milk powder, so it was a milky-white color.

The two mothers had become used to eating canned food, but the stew would taste better. They came out of their nesting area and lowered their heads to sip the stew.

”The kittens are still pretty young, so they need to be fed once every three hours. That's too many kittens for one person to feed everyday,” Zhang Zian continued.

Snowy was about to put her kitten down when Zhang Zian pointed at the tissues and said, ”Wipe its mouth, then gently massage its side.”

Snowy did what Zhang Zian said and started to stroke the kitten. A few moments later, the kitten opened its mouth and burped.

”After you feed them, you have to burp it or they'll have gas,” Zhang Zian explained.

The two mothers finished the stew. One of them ran towards the litter box in the corner of the room to relieve itself before it went back to the nesting area.

With Snowy there to feed the kittens, Lu Yiyun had nothing to do, so she left to clean the litter box.

Not long later, Lu Yiyun ran back in a panic holding the litter box.

”Zhang Zian, not good!”

”What happened?” Zhang Zian asked.

”The cat has diarrhea!” Lu Yiyun anxiously pointed at the poop in the litter box for Zhang Zian to see.

Zhang Zian looked at it and tried to calm her down. ”There's no need to panic. That's not diarrhea, it's just a soft poop. It happens frequently to mothers when they're still nursing their kittens, take a closer look.”

He pointed at one of the mothers.

The mother licked its kitten's fur from head to tail, even the kitten's butt area.

As a result of the kitten being stimulated, pee and poop slipped out.

Without hesitation, the mother ate the pee and poop before she moved on to the next kitten and repeated the process.

”I…thought only dogs…eat poop. ”Snowy was so shocked she started stuttering.

A thought appeared in her head, What if Snowball ate its own poop and then came to lick me? That would be disgusting.

It was Lu Yiyun's first time witnessing this and she had the same thought as Snowy, but with her own cat, Jasmine.

”This is a special situation.” Zhang Zian laughed. ”When kittens are newly born, they aren't able to relieve themselves on their own. They require their mother's stimulation to do so, or else they'd die of constipation. After their mother eats their waste, it'll have soft poop. This only happens when the kittens are still young, so don't worry.”

Both Snowy and Lu Yiyun let out a sigh of relief.