A Michael Broad Blog
I don’t need words for this one. It is all in the video. It’s nice to see this grumpy, geriatric male feral cat warm up emotionally when he found himself around some orphaned domestic kittens. Both get a lot out of the relationship. Grumpy grandpa soften and became excited to play with the kittens …
In the Gir National Park sometimes referred to as the Gir Forest a lioness is raising a leopard cub. This is highly unusual. This national park is well known as the home of the Asiatic lion. Counting lions is difficult but we are told that there are about 600 but their survival is precarious …
Mother moves her kittens to a new nest. Why? It usually happens when the kittens are between 30 and 40 days old. We have all see it; mother picks up each kitten by the scruff of their necks and purposefully carries them off to a fresh location. In the video she takes them to …
The expression on mamma cat’s face while she is nursing her very young kittens is priceless. Who said that domestic cats don’t have facial expressions? I think she is regretting not having the operation.
The mother starts the weaning process about four weeks after birth. She makes suckling more difficult. She does this by avoiding her kittens and; adopting body postures which makes her nipples less accessible. This process takes place over about three weeks. At seven weeks of age suckling is at a low level. The kittens …
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”. …
Forgive me for taking the easy option and presenting an embedded video with an advert at the beginning. It does, however, tell the story nicely. We are not surprised are we? I am pleased the clinic employees understood that the female cat who wanted to get in was the mother of the kittens who …
I suppose it is pretty obvious what this Bengal cat mother is saying to her offspring. It will be the same sort of words and sounds that a human uses to reassure her young child. It must be about providing reassurances to her kittens. The mother makes a trilling sound the kitten makes a …
