Mother cat issues
Posted: Fri Jun 07, 2019 12:49 am
A few months ago we took in a stray kitten that had been hanging around our house. Unfortunately she got pregnant before we could get her spayed. She ended up giving birth to her kittens in a plastic bag in our garage. Well, of coarse we had to get the kittens out of the plastic bag so they wouldn’t suffocate, but after we got all the kittens out my mom panicked and tried to take all the kittens inside the house and away from their mother. I tried to warn her that it probably wasn’t a good idea to take them away from their mother but she wouldn’t listen and started taking the kittens inside. The mother cat saw what she was doing and went and grabbed one of the kittens in her mouth. My mom then freaked out and picked up the mother cat with the kitten hanging from its mouth and tried to carry them inside (the mother cat dropping the poor kitten in the process). The whole thing turned into a big ordeal and eventually the mother cat and her kittens ended up back in the garage inside a little play pen we set up.
The problem is that now a lot of times when my mom goes out to the garage and gets near the kittens the mother will swat at her or try to attack her legs. She typically only does this in the garage, in the house she can actually be pretty friendly towards my mom. But now my mom’s scared of her and wants to get rid of her. The kittens are five weeks old now and their once very overprotective mother has begun to mellow out now and will let other people pet and play with the kittens, except for my mom.
I’m not sure what to do here, before all this my mom and this cat were really good friends and now they seem to be at odds. I would really appreciate some advice on how to handle this situation.
The problem is that now a lot of times when my mom goes out to the garage and gets near the kittens the mother will swat at her or try to attack her legs. She typically only does this in the garage, in the house she can actually be pretty friendly towards my mom. But now my mom’s scared of her and wants to get rid of her. The kittens are five weeks old now and their once very overprotective mother has begun to mellow out now and will let other people pet and play with the kittens, except for my mom.
I’m not sure what to do here, before all this my mom and this cat were really good friends and now they seem to be at odds. I would really appreciate some advice on how to handle this situation.