My fluffy has 3 kittens which are about 4 weeks old (born 3/4). Mama Cat had one kitten this year (?). Now that Mama Cat has had her brood (born 3/26), she keeps stealing Fluffy' kittens and placing them in her birthing box. Is this unusual behavior?
Fluffy's kittens are just now old enough (as of last Saturday) to climb out of their box and follow me around the front room. (They look like little traveling balls of fur). Yesterday is when I noticed two of them were missing, and found them in Mama's box! And Mama's box is on top of the refrigerator! When Mama cat comes out to take fluffy's kittens, Fluffy does not put up any resistance to the thievery! But only begins to meow when she can't find all of them.
An update, I found Silver Prince in Mama's box again this afternoon (3/28). She seems only to take one kitten and leave the other two - but she is not particular which one she takes. What I am a bit fearful of is that Silveer Prince is old and big enough to crawl out of Mama's box and since it is about 6ft high, there is no way for a kitten to get down, he might fall in the process. Fluffy ( a torite) has been on the floor since giving birth to them.
...........wayne
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