Tonya, the aforementioned troublemaker in my previous topic, recently took it upon herself to play surrogate mother to Spooky's kittens now that they are (or should be) weaned off of Spooky. She will lie there and let the kittens try to nurse off of her and will complain over the extent to which they are chewing up her nipples, but beyond the mews of discomfort, she does nothing to interfere with them, sometimes even holding them in place with a paw and grooming them while they latch on and start gnawing. I am beginning to believe in the concept of pet psychiatry