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I have a some questions.
Mom and her babies are very healthy. We have talked to the vet and he will see her in a few days, while we already have found families for the little ones. Me and my girlfriend have decided to adopt mom. We already fed and played with her for a long time, and she spent a latve part of basically every day comfortably sleeping inside the apartment, so we figured it wouldn't be difficult.
There is only one potential issue.
She has become kind of aggressive after having the babies. When I'm near the basket and she's inside she seems OK. But everytime we interact when she's outside she hisses at me. It usually isn't even near the babies. I could be minding my own business in the kitchen and she still hisses. I put some food in her bowl and she scratched it our of my hand. One other time she seemed affectionate, rubbing against my leg, before going blood thirsty and scratching me.
Before giving birth she was really affectionate and never hissed or scratched. I'm not referring to the duration of the pregnancy, as I know hormones can make her more affectionate, but for the last one-and-a-half to two years. Even when we first started feeding her, when one would expect her to be wary, she immediately showed physical affection.
My girlfriend remembers her having enlarged nipples some time around last spring, while the number of the cats in the neighborhood didn't rise at all, so her theory is her first litter was killed either by the cold or by male cats, and thus is extremely anxious and fearful it will happen again.
Another theory is because apartment is small, perhaps she doesn't view just the basket as her territory, but the entire room (where the kitchen also is), and doing anything there counts as coming close to the babies.
Do any of these theories sound plausible? Is this absolutely normal and I'm just overthinking? I have experience taking care of cats, but never mothers or strays, so this is a little out of my depth.
Any comments are greatly appreciated.
Mom and her babies are very healthy. We have talked to the vet and he will see her in a few days, while we already have found families for the little ones. Me and my girlfriend have decided to adopt mom. We already fed and played with her for a long time, and she spent a latve part of basically every day comfortably sleeping inside the apartment, so we figured it wouldn't be difficult.
There is only one potential issue.
She has become kind of aggressive after having the babies. When I'm near the basket and she's inside she seems OK. But everytime we interact when she's outside she hisses at me. It usually isn't even near the babies. I could be minding my own business in the kitchen and she still hisses. I put some food in her bowl and she scratched it our of my hand. One other time she seemed affectionate, rubbing against my leg, before going blood thirsty and scratching me.
Before giving birth she was really affectionate and never hissed or scratched. I'm not referring to the duration of the pregnancy, as I know hormones can make her more affectionate, but for the last one-and-a-half to two years. Even when we first started feeding her, when one would expect her to be wary, she immediately showed physical affection.
My girlfriend remembers her having enlarged nipples some time around last spring, while the number of the cats in the neighborhood didn't rise at all, so her theory is her first litter was killed either by the cold or by male cats, and thus is extremely anxious and fearful it will happen again.
Another theory is because apartment is small, perhaps she doesn't view just the basket as her territory, but the entire room (where the kitchen also is), and doing anything there counts as coming close to the babies.
Do any of these theories sound plausible? Is this absolutely normal and I'm just overthinking? I have experience taking care of cats, but never mothers or strays, so this is a little out of my depth.
Any comments are greatly appreciated.
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