When Do Mother Cats Leave Their Kittens In The Wild

The mother cats even share kittens.

When do mother cats leave their kittens in the wild. Most cats make extremely good mothers and adore their kittens. The weaning process usually continues for about another month until the kittens are fully weaned between eight and 10 weeks of age. It is obviously risky to leave the young kittens unattended and available to predators but the drive for food is instinctive. Human smell on the kittens makes the mother cat.

This development was most surprising for her feeders but not to me in the past 10 years 8 out of 10 of the mother cats i was asked to rescue with their kittens and which behaved wild and were untouchable revealed their domestic past in my care and were found new homes. Feral cat mothers don t actually abandon their kittens. Maternal aggression towards people and other animals is a very normal mother cat behavior and it will subside as the kittens grow. And when something happens to a mother cat the babies are taken in by another mother cat.

Last year i got to be mother cat with cans of milk replacer and an eyedropper. One mother cat that lost her kittens took over mothering of another mother cats kittens. These usually only include female cats since the males will leave the nest and form large territories of their own. Health issues in the mother cat.

Mothers cats will abandon the kittens if she senses that the kittens are no longer safe. In cities hunting is not necessary if the mother cat is fed by a reliable hum. Kittens cannot see or hear when they are born so they are totally helpless and depend on their mother to protect and nurture them. If kittens have to leave earlier than recommended cat experts recommend that the kitten s space and all it contains such as the blanket cushions and utensils are washed to remove their smell to quicken the mother cat s recovery.

Feral cats will often form large social groups usually consisting of mom and her numerous kittens as well as any offspring they may have had. Sometimes the family stays together in a colony and sometimes. The mother cat must go where the food is. They just stop feeding them and will swat them away when they try to nurse.

These large social groups work together to raise any new litters of kittens. The researcher definitely noticed that several of the wild cats had a more positive response to having their butts scratched. While the research didn t produce the over the top enthusiasm that many small domestic pet cats often display when their butt is scratched the larger wild cats weren t indifferent either. That means they have to learn to get their own food.