Litter training and weaning advice

I’m sorry to hear about your older girl. 😥 The first thing is get some enzyme cleaner and clean the spots where she’s already peed. As long she’s smells the pee she’ll think it’s an appropriate place to pee.

Because she’s so small, Calliope may not be able to get from the bed/couch to her litter box in time. She’s learning how to pee but she’s not in complete control. As long as she’s away from her nest your best move is to periodically put her in her litter box. It will take patience but soon she’ll have it down.

She slurps her milk because she can do it. Oftentimes, she can’t suck the gruel out of the bottle. Make a larger hole for your wee girl.

PG

I agree with PG, just cut the end of the nipple off so the formula/food can pass easily through the nipple. Don’t squeeze the bottle, but control the flow by tipping the end of the bottle up for faster or down to slow it. Once she gets this slurry into her, she won’t be so frantic acting when eating. A lot of kittens are slow to want to eat from a dish or lap milk. It will come when they are ready, so just keep offering whenever you feel like it.

Kittens, like human babies, are creatures who like routine. Do the same things at the same time every day. Feeding, stimulating, or putting her in her litter tray after eating. If you pee her over her tray and it goes into the litter and also put a couple of her poops in there, then when she is in there sniffing around, she will finally put two and two together.

Keep offering her the solid food, but she is 4 weeks old and mine weren’t interested in plain, solid foods that early. They need their formula at this age, especially for the hydration, but also for all the extras and the fat that it offers. Also, the closeness they get when you are holding them and their tummies get full. Burp her afterwards, then love her, then in 20 minutes or so put her in her litter tray.