What affects us affects cats
Grandpa Mason as he was affectionately known, was a geriatric former feral cat with terminal kidney disease. He was not so keen on people but he loved kittens. He lived at Tiny Kittens a rescue group in Langley, Vancouver, Canada and was the oldest feral cat that they’d seen. The short video of Grandpa …
You know how related female cats can share parenting in a colony, well this looks like the same thing only one of the felines is a human. It is interesting that the cat plops her newborn kitten down on the floor and then deposits the little thing into the outstretched hand of the owner. …
Do male cats recognise their own kittens? I am referring to domestic cats because I’m sure the question is about domestic cats. It’s impossible to find a clean and direct answer to the question and therefore it is a good question. I think, however, that I have found the answer indirectly. Let us first …
Thinking about it, there are probably at least three reasons why a female cat looks after the kittens of another female. We see this on the Internet quite often. Accidental The first reason is that it could be accidental that one female cat looks after the kittens of another female cat. It may be …
Perhaps it is not surprising that in a recent study scientists came to the conclusion that male cats were less sensitive to variations in the cries of kittens in isolation than female cats. We know that as a species male cats are not involved in raising their young. These are cats without “paternal care”. …
In their natural state, once kittens are a few days old, the mother may move them to a different nest site. Many mothers move their litters from the nest and will probably do it at least once before her kittens are weaned. Despite the fact that scientists are yet to be completely sure as …
We’ve all seen it. A mother cat breastfeeding her newborns. But her young might be ducklings or baby hedgehogs. What is going on? Why does a cat raise a duck and why does a duckling treat a cat as his mother? This is the formula that makes it work – provided the timing is …
