MY CAT JUST ATE HER KITTEN >.>;;

[Rai-Rai]

Yea I was a mean little kid...o.0;
Oh well I was mean to flies because I didn't like them...the butterflies I caught always ended up dying because I would forget to let them go after a while. I used to catch fireflies too but I wouldn't kill those bugs, I liked them too much. =3

[Hiroku]

Well fuzzy. . .I have to say that is something that I have never had to deal with. . .

The only dead animals thing I have dealt with it on more then one occasion I get. . .urm. . . gifts from animals. Most of them being from cats.

Usually a Bird or a mouse. . . every now and then a snake. XD

Animals like me but i can tell they are mad when I dont well. . . eat the gift that they brought me.

[Merelia]

In all the years that I have had cats, I have never experienced my cats doing that to their litters. (The litters they had before they were spayed).

Though, it is not uncommon for a cat to do that to their kittens. From the sound of it, it seems the kitten had died naturally before the mother ate it. Usually it's an instinct in the wild, where mothers will dispose of their sick or dead babies, so that other intruders do not find them. But there can be many reasons to why a mother cat does that to their kittens.

Just goes to show that even having domesticated cute and cuddly animals, won't prevent their wild instincts to kick in.

[Vixie]

i remember a cat we had years ago called Lucy she had her babies in the garden and then chopped all their heads off o_o

[shades_of_grey]

I have heard of male cats eating kittens, but not mother cats. I'm lucky all my mama cats have never ate their kittens, but plenty of them have died. That sounds like an interesting site to see, but I think I'll pass.

I don't think I was mean to animals when I was little. I couldn't stand bugs and everything else was a dog or a cat.

[Kitty]

Thats actually a really normal thing for a mother cat to do. If a baby dies, then the mother will eat it, it is very sad though.

[shades_of_grey]

Well, I must say I'm glad I never saw that. I think my mother was quick enough to get the dead kittens before the mama cat could. I might have been traumatized by that as a little kid. I was completely sheltered as a child. -.-;;

[Kitty]

I remember writing a report on cats for grade school.

[Chu]

Most mammals eat their dead children. I know that mice, rats, gerbils, hamsters, dogs, ect. do.

[shades_of_grey]

I only had dogs and cats... and I'm still glad I haven't seen that.

[Mungo Boo]

Eww...

:P that is gross. But it does commonly happen.. :/

[Angel]

Unfortunately, that's a cat's nature. It's primal instinct.

Cats eat their dead kittens like we bury our loved ones. It's just how they react.

Sure it's nasty to us, but the cat sees it as a typical thing of life. D:


I'm so sorry to hear that, though. A little nauseous too. >.<

[monbohn]

I can't remember a time when I didn't have cats in my life and I've gone through my share of birthing mothers and raising litters. Most of the kittens lived but there were a few that didn't. Luckily I never had to witness any of the mothers doing that and I always disposed of the ones that didn't make it. When the mothers give birth one of the things that they do is eat the placenta and umbilical cord as part of cleaning up the newly born kittensand that's kind of a part of both the mother and the kitten, but it horrifies us more to think of them eating the kitten because we think of the kitten as this cute fuzzy little thing that we see in pictures or have had through litters or see in pet shops and that endears it to us. But eating the placenta is really almost the same as eating the dead kitten. It's part of their instincts to clean up the mess and to remove anything that may attract predators ~ and a dead and rotting carcas would draw all kinds of things normally out in nature. I've had two cats that I know were pregnant but neither ended up having any babies and there was never any kind of mess found ~ if there were miscarriages the mother would have eaten anything that the body disposed of. It's horrifying to us because of the way we think about it and relate it to emotion. Animals do have emotions as well but not the same cognitive thinking that we do and don't relate something like that to emotion, but rather to instinct to survive.

[Vixie]

kitties are weird D: i member our last litter of kitties we had to cut the cords ourself coz mother kittie was lazy and wouldn't eat the placenters!

[Nemui]

well i know why cats do that.. its so they can clean up any evidence
that they had the babies.
that way enemies don't get attracted to the litter.

although our cat didn't do that.

she lost two of her babies, one came out with his head all deformed
and the other looked just fine. but was dead.
she walked away from them and wouldn't go near them.
so we ended up having to get rid of them ourselves.