Why do mother cats scatter the kittens?

Answer 1

she has rejected the kittens this mayb due too

kitten smells different have you washed kitten or taken kitten too a vet strange smells will make mommy think that baby is not hers cats tell each other apart by smell

mother naturally rejecting kitten due to age once a kitten is weaned old enough to fend for its self a mother may reject it to encorage it to be independant.kittens are weaned at 8 weeks but its not advised for them to leave prior to 10weeks.

sickness,kitten mayb sick if a kitten is sick the mother will reject it and push it away from healthy babys

in the event of rejection under 8 weeks of age bottle feeding is required ring a vet for advice on kitten feeding

but when in dought ring a vet if you are unsure about your cat ring a vet for advice

Answer 2

They do that to their disabled kittens , because in nature they won't be able to survive . It's also because if that sick/disabled kitten dies around where she is nursing other kittens, it can bring diseases and predators to other surviving kittens. Best thing in the wild is for mother to eat the dying kitten and provide more for the rest.

Answer 3

Mother cats typically will kill their own litter for one of two general reasons:

1. the mother is stressed or threatened in her environment; or
2. the kitten or the litter is somehow defective.

More likely, if a new litter fails to thrive and/or is found dead, chewed, partially eaten, or missing, the mother does not know how to mother them and will require very close supervision with any subsequent litters.

How do I know? Our mother cat had one litter of three kittens several years ago. They appeared healthy and normal, but she did not immediately after the delivery. She refused to lick the birthing sac off of them. we cared for the kittens for three days and she seemed to settle down and nursed them more and more. We left her to them after three days and on the morning of the fourth, we found them dead, two of them partially eaten. We consulted our vet who examined her and the carcasses. finding nothing wrong with any of them, he advised us to watch her closely if she became pregnant again. And, the next spring we did. We saw the same behavior. This time she refused to mother them at all. Three kittens were born again and we bottle fed them to weening. She refused to have anything to do with them at all, and began fighting with them as they came into adolescence. Finding good homes for them, we had her spayed. Unfortunately the local shelter where we had this done, did not complete the job, and she became pregnant the next year. Same issue repeated, four kittens this time, all bottle fed. She eventually killed one of them before we could stop her. Strange thing is she has never been aggressive in the least. She is so mild mannered that every neighbor we have on the lake knows and loves her. She makes the rounds all summer and when she sees someone walking up the road, she will walk up to them and roll over on her back to have her stomach scratched. Just for the sake of assurances, we had the spay job repeated at our vet's office this time, and we have been litter free for the past two years. The only answer our vet has been able to give is that she never learned to mother. He guesses she was abandoned very young, probably within days of birth. This fits, as Momma Kitty was a rescue.

Answer 4

When mother cats scatter their kittens, that is a sign of abandonment. Most mother cats will start scattering their young at approximately three weeks of age so independence can begin to be taught.

Answer 5

The mother cat killed her kittens. She then let her 8 week old kittens nurse her. Rhen she tried to kill them. She screams like a wild cat.

Answer 6

Well , they separate their kittens from the other cats kittens but ,the Momma cat itself doesn't pleasure!

Answer 7

It was afraid of not having enough milk t