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Why did my cat lay on her babies?
I pick up stray cats around my house and find homes for them. One of the cats I picked up was a sweet and adorable female. I named her Minx becuase she can be a bit fiesty around other animals. After I had had her for a couple weeks she gave birth to a litter of seven kittens. Most of the kittens tails were bent in funny directions, but others were perfectly healthy. I put the brood in a large box lined with a soft towel. Within a 24 hrs she had layed on two of them. They died. I checked the box to make sure it wasn't to small, 2.5 ft by 3ft. I kept her and the kittens in my room away from the other cat I had at the time. By the next morning all but one kitten had died because she layed on them. The last one was struggling to breath and the vet couldn't do anything. I took over caring for the kitten but 6 hrs later he was dead too.
What I want to know is why did she lay on the entire litter?
She found a home some time ago, long before I found Yahoo Answers. I am just curious.
I don't think the kittens died because they mother laid on them.
If you saw her lying on top of them, I think either it was a coincidence or she knew that they were cold (because they were dead or dying) and she was trying to keep them warm.
I think they died because they had internal malformations. The crooked tails bent in strange directions is a tip-off. Abnormalities of tails, such as the very short or absent tail on Manx cats, often goes with defects of the nervous system and internal organs. That's true of cats that aren't Manx, or may have some Manx genes but don't look like typical Manx.
Your mother cat wasn't to blame, in my opinion. I think the kittens died of genetic defects and she was doing her best to keep them warm and save them.
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