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Hi,
My cat gave birth to 4 kittens, 1 was dead. The dead kitten disappeared so I'm guessing she ate it. The other 3 kittens were doing really well, taking milk from mum, drinking water and had started eating dry food for kittens. I noticed that 1 of them had stopped thriving and was not has big as his brothers, all he wanted to do was sit on my lap. Today I found him dead, he would have been 8 weeks old in a days time. Kitty mum saw him and started licking him. I was going to bury him, but when I went back to the room later, he was nowhere to be seen, I am guessing that mum ate him. Is this normal behaviour for a mum to eat a dead kitten so old. She is a first time mum and not 1 yet.
Thanks in advance.
My cat gave birth to 4 kittens, 1 was dead. The dead kitten disappeared so I'm guessing she ate it. The other 3 kittens were doing really well, taking milk from mum, drinking water and had started eating dry food for kittens. I noticed that 1 of them had stopped thriving and was not has big as his brothers, all he wanted to do was sit on my lap. Today I found him dead, he would have been 8 weeks old in a days time. Kitty mum saw him and started licking him. I was going to bury him, but when I went back to the room later, he was nowhere to be seen, I am guessing that mum ate him. Is this normal behaviour for a mum to eat a dead kitten so old. She is a first time mum and not 1 yet.
Thanks in advance.
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