My kitten keeps nibbling/sucking my ear lope!

Hi, Petite Princess! Little Ruby sounds like a wonderful kitty. How long have you had her? Kittens are weaned from their mothers at around ten weeks. She may be trying to comfort herself as she falls asleep by going through the motions of nursing. Does she knead you with her paws too? One of our TDKers has a cat that insists on sucking on a blanket each night with his human mom. Your kit may outgrow this in time.

Please keep posting. We love to hear about people and their cats. If you can, please consider creating a webpage for Ruby on Catster.dom. It is free and easy to do. Most of us have them. You can link the Catster page to your avatar on TDK by editing your profile. Please click on my avatar to see my two cats, Digit and Furl. 🙂

Hi, PP! Sucking and nibbling are signs of love. I would let her do it because it gives her joy and comfort.

Hi PP, welcome to TDK! Ruby sounds like a real little sweetheart – I take that’s her in the avator picture? The blanket ideas are good, I know of several TDKers who have blanket sucking cats & kittens! Very young kittens also seem to like having something to snuggle up to (reminds them of their siblings) – so you might like to get a little cuddly toy; beanie type toys are ideal.

PP I can now see your kittie gravatar…Is this Ruby??? she is beautiful!!! My kitties just sent a friends request!!

Oh, she is absolutely beautiful!!!!!

COA’s at the ready before you click on the catster link guys!!! This is one cute kitten 🙂

Try pressing the ctrl + F5 or cleaning out your internet history, that usually helps or try to refresh the page..I can see her and she is adorable..loved her catster pics too!

Ah yes, she’s a calico like my Patches. Yes, she needed more time with her mom. Patches used to suck on my leg–she thought I was her mommy, since I rescued her from feral at 5 1/2 weeks old. Ruby was a litle too young also so she’s transferred her mom-attachment to you. Patches finally outgrew it after I would remove her from my lap when she did it–I had hickies on my thighs, not the corporate look. Welcome and enjoy the kittens!

Aww such a beautiful kitten! Ever since I got my kitten at 10 weeks (16 wks now), he nurses on my lips!!! When he gets sleepy he comes and find me (usually on the couch), jumps up, walks over to my face, lays his body down and starts to push his paws into my neck while he nurses on my lips… He does this with his eyes closed. He looks like a little baby nursing. If I try to push him away, he cries or makes this cute little noise like “eh eh”. Makes me feel bad.. But it does look funny when I have visitors over and my kitten is making out with me!

My question is also should I make him stop or allow him to feel this comfort?? I feel bad and just let him do it but I definitely don’t want it to become a habit when he is older and much larger. It would look funny! 😉