What is the situation when a male cat eats kittens Does a male cat eat kittens?

Reasons why male cats eat kittens:

1. Kittens are congenitally deficient.

When cats notice that their kittens are deformed, they are likely to have eaten the kittens, which is the result of natural selection. Survival of the fittest, deformed kittens are difficult to survive in nature, and sooner or later they will die.

2. Interference of human body odor.

Some people will keep picking up kittens because of curiosity or worry, there are many people, and the kittens are contaminated with human smell, and cats may think that the kittens are threatened by the smell, and the smell of people causes cats to be unable to distinguish their children, and they may also eat the kittens.

Preparations for cat birth:

First: the preparation of the cat production environment.

Cats are generally around 60 days pregnant, and when they are about to give birth, they are less active and prefer to stay in a warm and quiet place. So at this stage, shovel officer.

It's best not to be too busy at home. In case the cat has a stress reaction.

Causing cats to flee from home to give birth. It is better to give it a kennel to a separate quiet hut and let it give birth in it.

Second: Be prepared to help your cat when it gives birth.

Cats are generally very independent, even when giving birth. Some cats can give birth naturally, and after giving birth to kittens, the mother cat handles the afterbirth and umbilical cord on the kitten herself.

However, some cats may be inexperienced or physically exhausted, and will not take the initiative to deal with these things after giving birth.

At this time, the shovel officer needs to pay attention to help, and need to help the female cat to open the afterbirth, or use scissors to cut off the umbilical cord. When cutting the umbilical cord, pay attention to cutting it 2 cm away from the kitten's navel.

Exotic shorthair cat (details).

Some people ask, do male cats eat newborn kittens? In fact, there are no cases, but there are cases of female cats giving birth to kittens and eating them, usually male cats take a "non-existent attitude towards me" to give birth to female cats, and male cats are not too interested in newborn kittens.

1. It cannot be asserted that the character of the "male cat" is very neurotic or that if it does not get along well with the female cat from the beginning, it will not cause accidents, but it is usually not necessary to worry too much.

2. However, there has been practical experience that the female cat will eat the kitten example, for such a thing so far is not very clear understanding of its situation, but generally speaking, it is a similar parenting cerebral neurasthenia caused, the female cat will take such an action probably to relieve its anxiety.

3. In short, it is the cause of all kinds of oppression in parenting, in order to avoid this kind of thing, it is necessary to ensure a quiet and dim place for the female cat, so that she can give birth and raise with peace of mind, especially for the female cat in parenting, do not deliberately peep at her.