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Post by kls on May 20, 2017 0:28:34 GMT
who were devoted fathers to their offspring?
When I was growing up the cat next door fathered a litter of kittens with a cat the next street over. The neighbors left him behind and he came to live at our house. About a week later he would go off and come back bringing one of his kittens. So we wound up with his daughter too once she was nog enough to stay. Never paid attention to any of the kittens other than the daughter that looked like him. |
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Post by xystophoros on May 20, 2017 22:44:57 GMT
Cats can give births to litters of kittens who have multiple fathers, so it's possible that the male cat had some way of knowing which one was his offspring.
Cats are a species where alloparenting is found, and apparently male cats are much more likely to help care for kittens if they've been neutered. That sounds almost counterintuitive, because a neutered cat can't breed, but nonetheless it's true -- in domestic situations male cats have helped females raise kittens.
My cat is male but I had him neutered at less than 5 months old. I really didn't like having to do that, but it's necessary. Regardless, he behaves and sounds like a kitten even though he just turned 3 years old. It's weird, his meows sound like kitten's mews. I can't imagine him as a father lol.
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Post by shangel on May 24, 2017 23:09:48 GMT
Cats can give births to litters of kittens who have multiple fathers, so it's possible that the male cat had some way of knowing which one was his offspring. Cats are a species where alloparenting is found, and apparently male cats are much more likely to help care for kittens if they've been neutered. That sounds almost counterintuitive, because a neutered cat can't breed, but nonetheless it's true -- in domestic situations male cats have helped females raise kittens. My cat is male but I had him neutered at less than 5 months old. I really didn't like having to do that, but it's necessary. Regardless, he behaves and sounds like a kitten even though he just turned 3 years old. It's weird, his meows sound like kitten's mews. I can't imagine him as a father lol. That's interesting. I didn't know that litters can have multiple fathers. |
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Post by Deleted on May 26, 2017 4:50:45 GMT
Chicolini is a boy but he doesn't have any kids. He's too dang narcissistic but he's cute. He would probably just look at them and call the birds then go about doing whatever.
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Post by kls on May 27, 2017 10:54:34 GMT
Cats can give births to litters of kittens who have multiple fathers, so it's possible that the male cat had some way of knowing which one was his offspring. Cats are a species where alloparenting is found, and apparently male cats are much more likely to help care for kittens if they've been neutered. That sounds almost counterintuitive, because a neutered cat can't breed, but nonetheless it's true -- in domestic situations male cats have helped females raise kittens. My cat is male but I had him neutered at less than 5 months old. I really didn't like having to do that, but it's necessary. Regardless, he behaves and sounds like a kitten even though he just turned 3 years old. It's weird, his meows sound like kitten's mews. I can't imagine him as a father lol. That's interesting. I didn't know that litters can have multiple fathers. It would be possible when the female releases several eggs. Tom 1's sperm fertilizes one or some but not all and Tom 2's sperm fertilizes others. |
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Post by nausea on Jun 10, 2017 15:58:42 GMT
I have encountered a lot of cynicism lately.
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Post by TheOriginalPinky on Jun 12, 2017 15:53:35 GMT
Our male neutered cat grooms his sister, and is very nurturing toward her. She just takes it all in, never grooming him back. 
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Post by socalboy83 on Jun 13, 2017 2:09:57 GMT
Male parakeets are sweet and shy.
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Post by yezziqa on Jun 22, 2017 19:49:50 GMT
I'm a scientist and I decided to have two generations of cats to observe. My first litter was all male and the mother stayed with them until they was about 10 weeks old, between 10 and 12 weeks she came once a day, my second litter was 8 when she (the same cat) left them totaly. What happened? My male cats from the previous litter stepped in and took care of the kittens.
A couple of years later, the first litter males are still tending to the "babies".
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Post by heeeeey on Jul 7, 2017 1:10:58 GMT
I had a male cat that was very devoted to his niece. They were inseparable.
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