Six reasons why cats abandon their kittens

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Cats are usually good mothers who would give their lives to protect their kittens. Every once in a while, you see small kittens that have been abandoned. There are reasons why mother cats abandon their babies. Her are six reasons why do some mother cats abandon their kittens.

When the kittens are sick

Why do cats abandon one kitten? Well, mother cat doesn’t know about vets or antibiotics. If she sees one of her kittens is sick, she believes they’ll die. Maybe she wants to save her milk and energy for her other kittens, who have a better chance of survival, or maybe she can’t stand to watch her young die. So feral cats abandon their sick kitten as an act of desperation.

If the mother is dead

Sometimes it looks as if the mother has abandoned her kittens, when in fact mother cat was hit by a car or died from sickness. It can happen. Roads are a death trap for cats at night. There’s a bright safety collar for cats.

Orphaned kittens have a better chance of survival than abandoned kittens, because the orphans aren’t necessarily sick.

Getting lost

The mother could be displaced after being trapped for spaying. There are programs for neutering stray cats where I live. Although we still have many kittens running around. Or she could just get lost, or one of the kittens may get lost.

There are ways to track your cat so it won’t get lost with a cat tracker.

Not a motherly cat

Every cat has a different personality. I knew one cat who left her kittens when they were almost as large as she was, and she still visited regularly. She was a very nurturing and motherly cat. Just like she was more nurturing than the average cat, some cats are less nurturing. A mother cat who’s not loving toward her kittens will reject and abandon them. It’s unusual, of course.

The mother isn’t far

Sometimes the mother searches for food and leaves the kittens alone, so it seems as if the kittens are abandoned, but they’re not. If you wait a long time, and the mother isn’t back yet, perhaps that isn’t the case. Do mother cats leave their kittens alone? Sometimes they don’t have a choice, if they don’t want to starve to death.

At what age do cats abandon their kittens?

When do mother cats leave their kittens in the wild? Or in the urban jungle? Mother cats usually abandon their kittens when they’re old enough to fend for themselves, around 4 weeks old. otherwise, they’ll have dozens of cats following them around and taking their food and their energy, so they really don’t have a choice. They get pregnant twice a year or so and have four kittens in a litter each time on average. That’s eight kittens a year. And in a few years… do the math. That’s really too much for anyone.

Will a cat abandon her kittens if you touch them?

Do mother cats rejects their kittens if human touch them? Every cat is different, but most cats wouldn’t abandon their kittens if you touch them. I’ve touched Princessa’s kittens, and she didn’t abandon them. I’ve heard cats owners telling me they’ve touched their cat’s kittens, and mother cat didn’t abandon them. I’m not saying it can’t happen, only that it doesn’t happen often, and I’ve never seen it happen. But you should always use caution before touching a kitten, especially a feral kitten. Maybe its mother is one of the few cats who will abandon her kittens if you touch them.

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