Why do cats move their kittens around?, This morning I was panicking Options

[Catsfriend]

This morning, I couldn't find our Russian kittens any more. I remembered that I woke up a few times during the night, because their mother was "massaging" me and was biting into my ear lap. Did she want to tell me something? When I went to check upon her kittens, they were gone. It took me 2 hours to finally find them behind a kitchen cupboard, in a rather dirty and definitely very unsuitable place. The queen has been trying several times before to carry her kittens away from the clean, darkened and cosy wardrobe-type accommodation where I put them right after birth, most often into the direction of her previous outdoor cage in our backyard, and I always brought them back. The wardrobe where they are supposed to stay is in my study, a quiet room where I can monitor them all the time throughout the day. The kittens will be soon 3 weeks old. I exchange their blankets for clean ones about every second day, and I weigh and handle the kittens daily. Is anything wrong about their accommodation? Am I disturbing them too often? Why else would the mother want to have her kittens in a dirty hiding place instead, on the hard wooden floor? She also doesn't seem too fond of being with her kittens except at nursing times, but rather keeps walking restlessly around the house and even has naps outside of her "kitten nest". Can anyone offer me an explanation of her behaviour?

[Heather Sharada]

Actually you will love having a cat only room....just a couple of cat posts and a litter tray or two and if you have polished floors a carpet rug...and a bed or two.

Have you got a large cardboard box that you can put on it's side and make a bit cave like by throwing an old blankeet over most of it - but see if she will find it herself.

The cats had not been with you very long so this could be the reason she is feeling so unsettled.....please don't let her have access to the garden because she will still carry them back outside and they are a bit too young yet.

Do you not have a screen door on the back door - this would allow the door to be open and yet keep her inside.