If you are of a squeamish disposition you might want to stop reading 🙂 . I am just joking because I am sure by now that most people know why female cats scream after mating. Most also know that, unlike … Continue reading →
How do you know if your cats have mated? Secondary questions asked by a person on Quora.com were: My female cat hisses and growls at the male yet likes to tease him. Will they still act this way towards each … Continue reading →
Why do female cats tend to want to bite their partners when mating? The answer – which I am sure a lot of people now know – is because the male cat’s penis is an instrument of torture covered as … Continue reading →
Feline superfecundation occurs when a litter of kittens has more than one father. Tomcats squabble over a female in heat and most females promiscuously allow one male after another to mate with her. Thus all her admirers who have been … Continue reading →
It is proposed that female cats chose a male by the pungency of his urine as it indicates that he is a good hunter able to provide food for offspring.
Continue reading →The male domestic cat is a sadist and the female is a masochist. That’s a slight exaggeration and I’m using colourful language but there is an element of truth in it. This is a follow-up post to the successful one … Continue reading →
This article isn’t aimed toward those who rescue a pregnant cat. It’s for those who refuse to have their cats spayed or neutered, especially those who want their female cat to experience the miracle of kittens being born. Many cat owners … Continue reading →
When the tomcat grabs the female by the scruff of the neck when mating he is not being the macho male; he is defending himself by using an “immobilisation reaction behavioural trick”. He knows that the female is the boss … Continue reading →
Yes, despite the so called overpopulation of domestic cats, some cat owners want their cats to breed. This is usually cat breeders but informal cat breeding happens quite a lot. Some owners believe females should have a litter before being … Continue reading →
Dr Bradshaw makes a nice observation in his book: Cat Sense: the Feline Enigma Revealed. In larger colonies of cats – and, of course, I’m referring mainly to feral cat colonies – females mate with several males in sequence. The … Continue reading →
