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Cats eating their young?
I thought this was just "an old wives tale." My daughters watched a neighbors
cat give birth to 3 kittens. When they came back after leaving for supper there were only two kittens. They were looking around the barn for the missing kitten when they noticed the mother eating one of the remaining two kittens. They were quite traumatized by the event. Is this normal cat behavior? I'm interested so i can explain it to the girls. Thanks. |
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Cats eating their young?
Sometimes a mother cat will kill a kitten when there is something wrong with
it. Than sometimes they will devour it; it is protein to them when it is dead. Sometimes a inexperienced mother or distressed mother will do that. "Thor1207" u36867@uwe wrote in message news:771a72e075b57@uwe... I thought this was just "an old wives tale." My daughters watched a neighbors cat give birth to 3 kittens. When they came back after leaving for supper there were only two kittens. They were looking around the barn for the missing kitten when they noticed the mother eating one of the remaining two kittens. They were quite traumatized by the event. Is this normal cat behavior? I'm interested so i can explain it to the girls. Thanks. |
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Cats eating their young?
On 23 Aug, 03:45, "Matthew" wrote:
Sometimes a mother cat will kill a kitten when there is something wrong with it. Than sometimes they will devour it; it is protein to them when it is dead. Sometimes a inexperienced mother or distressed mother will do that. "Thor1207" u36867@uwe wrote in messagenews:771a72e075b57@uwe... I thought this was just "an old wives tale." My daughters watched a neighbors cat give birth to 3 kittens. When they came back after leaving for supper there were only two kittens. They were looking around the barn for the missing kitten when they noticed the mother eating one of the remaining two kittens. They were quite traumatized by the event. Is this normal cat behavior? I'm interested so i can explain it to the girls. Thanks.- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - It's rare, but they do have a instict from wild to eat the weak as they feel threatened somehow... It is something done in the wild... not sure how you could explain that to your children... |
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