Fortunately, tube feeding cats is rarely necessary. Only when the animal is too weak to eat or suck on its own we need to resort to tube feeding. Also motherless newborns for whom no foster mom can be found, will often have to be raised with tube feeding. Lies Klösters has written an article for the PawAcademy about Tube Feeding in case you, for some reason, need to tube feed your kittens.