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Mother Cat Growling at Newborn?
Hello, my cat had her kitten today, just one little gray kitty. What we noticed though, is when the kitten cries Willow, the mother, growls at the kitten and will not really bite the neck, but she grabs her with her mouth. Now, I know she isn't growling at us because she wants us there, seriously. When she was nesting she would cry and cry until someone came and sat with her, and she is still doing that now that she has the baby. She has even taken the baby and moved it to my lap while she went downstairs to go potty.
Anyway, do you have any idea why she may be growling at the kitten when it cries? My mother suggested that she does it because she doesn't want the babies cries to call the other cats up. However, when her sister came in the room to check things out they curled up together and were licking each other and the sister was caring for the kitten without any trouble.
*** Please no comments saying that we shouldn't be having kittens. I agree, the two girls, Willow and her sister Izzy, are my parents cats and they waited to long to get them fixed and my male got them pregnant. My male cannot be fixed due to a reaction to anesthesia, they went to fix him and weren't able to because he was allergic to the medicine. Both girls will be fixed as soon as their kittens are weened.
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- ?Lv 58 years agoFavorite Answer
ok I have two scenarios, both are situations I have dealt with.
The first one was with a dog I had. She was a blind dog, that I had bottle fed since birth. She had a litter of 5 puppies, 3 of which she killed and the last 2 were taken away. She really mourned those pups. To keep this short,I won't go into the reasons I know she was not being mean. Only after I gave those last two away , did I find out she had mastitis, which is painful. So your cat maybe could too.
The second one- a cat I had , had kittens. Within a day or so, those babies were crying to beat the band, and my other female who had kittens of her own, jumped in the box and fed her babies.These babies had two moms, and the surrogate mom would go back and forth and feed her own too.Turned out that the mother's nipples were inverted and those babies were not getting any milk. Maybe your cat knows she doesn't have milk to feed them and that's why she brought it to you for you to feed it.
If her sister is feeding it, don't worry about it. They will be fine.
- 8 years ago
She could just be stressed out. After having a kitten the mother cat is very tired and needs a lot of rest. I'm not a cat expert but she is probably really stressed and having her kitten cry at her doesn't help. Just like a human mother gets tired of a baby crying at her all day. My advice would be to try and let the mother get as much rest as possible and she should be fine. I hope that helps. Good luck!!! :)
