Do Cats Remember Who Their Mother Is? #cat #facts

[Awkwerp]

Cats 🤝 Americans

"You're legally an adult, now get tf out my house"

[CvbXMinus]

The mom really said: eh, they're gone.. I don't care 😼

[RandomLED]

the mother rlly said:There gone more Free food for me and more rest time 🗿

[michaelellis]

This true. I've kept some kittens longer sometimes and at a certain point, she starts to hiss at them and fight them.

[bettypearson]

Had a cat who had a single baby right at the time we were moving in August. She spazzed with all the Activity and managed to escape outside with her kitten and we couldn't find her. The neighbor agreed to keep an eye out for her. She was spotted a number of times but every time they tried to follow to her baby she would lose them and she wouldn't take good from them. Then she showed up and was obviously not well with a respiratory issue and week. They brought her to us and at first it looked like she was no longer in milk and we were sure the kitten had passed.

We literally carried her to food, water and the litter box the first couple days. The 3rd day she did start walking and we it became apparent that she did still have milk now that she was no longer dehydrated. The next day the old neighbor showed up with a very hungry kitten who had wandered out of the woods. When the mama heard the hungry mewing she came running and quickly began nursing and cleaning her baby.

She was so hyper attentive to her baby we couldn't bring ourselves to adopt her out and would have had a problem since she wasn't weaning her. She continued nursing her until almost the end of February, almost 7 months!

She did eat some cat food with the nursing but very little. Mama took care of her through the years literally doing all the grooming. The baby never seemed to take that well to solid food and was thinner than she should have been, she was very timid in contrast to the fearless nature of her mother.

Mama finally passed when the baby was 11. She had been so dependent on her mama that we were concerned about how she would fare on her own since at 11 she had never done anything independent from her mother and this was confirmed when she refused to eat and just laid in the bed she had shared with her mother moping.

On the third day it was as if a switch had been flipped in her brain telling her she was free. She suddenly started eating, cleaned herself and took on the independent and fearless attitude of her mother and would actually play with us. At 11 she had only played with her mom, not us.

Within weeks she was no longer thin but for the first time she got up to a normal weight. We mistook Mama's extreme devotion after she thought she had lost her baby too soon as affection and love but never stopped to consider that behaviour was overprotective and neurotic and was preventing the baby from growing up. Kinda like the moms on lifetime movies who go crazy when their sons get interested in girls and they become psycho killers when all the adult kids want us a normal life.

Glad she finally got her independence. Just didn't realize.

[audyqueelsa]

Mom be like:bye sweeti- i mean who are u?!do i know u?!

[christinarobleto]

Yes, my neighbor adopted one of my kittens & the mother cat remembered her a year later.

[yeeyw]

I heard that depends on the age of the kitten if they are very young and suddenly gone the mom would go a very depressed state but if you taken them when they a bit older the mom only have small worries thats gone in time

[oldfogey]

My daughter chose to keep mom cat and her two surviving kittens she had in May! Noe the kittens are almost a year old and the mom cat still seems happy that they are still together! Yes moms happy the baby has gained independence but she s not acting like she doesn't care about them! And yes our fur babies do adopt us as their new parents!

[shawnjackson]

My mama and baby still together they sleep together everyday

[degleon]

Once the smell is gone, so is the concern

[WhiteWolfos]

I remember putting my kitten out on a leash so she could see her real mom outside. The mom kept staring at something, ignoring the kitten as she ran to her mom. The kitten (4mos) did a double take after getting ignored, like literally the anime betrayal.

[wendydomino]

I spayed a feral mom and two kittens she had. One of them sadly passed away but the other one is still with her and they sleep curled up together.

[kilroywashere]

I did a video on my YouTube channel of cats who sow up at house that belongs to a friend of mine, and one of these cats is the mom of two of them, and she sometimes hisses at her daughter and son cats, or in other words she bats them with her paw💁🏻‍♂️.

[anne-christineacpetersson]

12 weeks are the age mom start to push them away. Also when its recommended to first adopt them out cause they be weened by then, too.

[LIVEWRE-hb]

I really thought about adopting the mom too, but then saw this. Vid, and Hank’s!

[grimcrimz]

Well I'm feeling like a mom to 3 machievious rascals, but it's my senior cat who acts like a literal baby and wants to be held like one all the time every time he sees me in the morning, screaming his head off till I pick em up to be held then he shuts up 😂

[amayasimonova]

It's still sad that you have to separate family

[alexzero]

It really depends on age of kitten. 1-2 months is very early, thats why mom cat gets worried , instinct tells that she lost a kid to some dangerous thing around... But if kitten is more aged, than its ok for them to leave

[Noa]

The cat we have is the runt of the litter, she is a weird gremlin but we sill love her.