is this normal for a cat to do?

Question

My cat has been bringing mice for her kittens!?
and she keeps doing so. i enjoy watching the kitten(s) eat the bastard. is it because my cat was born a wild cat and was raised that way for atleast a week before it was found and given to me.

the most strangest thing about my cat is: she has gray fur with some orange,black,and white(so i named her colours)!!

its best 2 keep the mouse outside when she comes back with a live one champ so the kittens know where 2 find them!!.



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Answer 1

Let me begin with the end of your message. Your cat's fur coloring means that she is a "Calico". All calico cats are females. They have those unusual colors due to a different chromosone. Your calico was initially raised in the wild, so she's now a domesticated cat, so she will always have certain wild traits throughout her lifetime and hunting is the biggest. She learned as a kitten how to hunt prey for her survival, so she is bringing in dead mice to her kittens to show them how to eat prey. Next she will bring in live mice or other things so they learn how to kill them. Then she'll want to show them how to do it outdoors.
Maybe you don't mind watching the kittens eat the dead mouse now, but this does get difficult after awhile and having to deal with a live mouse running through your house night after night with a litter of kittens going nuts trying to kill it isn't fun. Sometimes the mouse is not fully killed by the kittens or mother and manages to hide and die and then you'll have something smelly decomposing somewhere which attracts parasites.
I've been through this with a calico cat, by conincidence like yours, and it turned into a hassle because she had no kittens but kept bringing these "gifts" for me, like a prize and it was hard to train her that I wasn't going to eat them or be thrilled. I had to keep a sharp eye on her when she appeared at the pet door to make sure she didn't have anything before letting her in until she got it. But trust me, you need to try to get a handle on this. I even ended up getting bit by a mouse she brought in that got away and was hiding in the bathroom and had to go to emergency room to stop the bleeding and get a tetanus and rabies shot. Good luck.

Answer 2

What your cat is doing is natural. It's a survival instinct. She is teaching her babies to hunt. Right now they probably aren't old enough to go with her but she is showing them to kill and eat them. I've seen this many times with my outside cat and my dad's barn cat (dad's will also go into the fields and get rabbits). I am surrounded by wheat, corn and bean fields and there are plenty of mice-rats out there.... some nearly as big as the cat. I've seen mine with ones so big she has to drag it. It is bred into them much like hunting dogs have the instincts they have to retrieve or the way hounds track. I assume she is getting the mice from outside? Just be thankful she catches the "little bastards". They are going to try and come in the house when the weather gets cold......let her kill them out there 1st! Hope this helped.

I also have a gray, orange, black and white cat in the house (my baby). Parts of her look like a orange tabby and parts of her looks like a gray tabby...then add the solid spots! She's so spoiled she doesn't know what a mouse is and would probably hide if she ran up on one!

Answer 3

She is behaving just as cats do in a wild and natural environment.

Once you start putting food for the kittens, she may stop giving them to the kittens, but that won't necessarily stop the mice being brought in.

My cat used to bring me mice as gifts, the biggest problem with that thought was that she didn't kill them, would just lay them at my feet with a very pleased look on her face, and leave me to chase them round the house trying to catch and dispose of them.....
Your cat sound like a Tortoiseshell or Cameo cat......very pretty

Answer 4

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Answer 5

Yes, totally normal. My cats, which are a bit more domesticated, like to drag my dirty (and clean if they can get them) socks to the nest where the kittens are. So they are making the lair more comfy while your cat is feeding them

Answer 6

My mother's cat prefers mouse to cat food. She can't find any brand of cat food he likes. She has had to move to an apt and he now has to stay in, and she wishes she could buy him, what he wants, Mouse flavored food! Your cat just wants her babies to have the good food she enjoys. She's a good provider!

Answer 7

It is completely normal. The mother cat is teaching her kittens how to hunt. It's part of their nature.

Answer 8

Yes, it's normal. You need to make sure to worm both your cat and your kittens if they are eating mice.

Answer 9

your cat is normal, no problem with her ! I normal for her to bring food to her kitten, so they'll learn to hunt too.

and about her colors, it's called "ecailles de tortue" in french, means "turtle scales" (don't ask me why...)
all I can tell you about those colors is that only females cat can have them, you'll never see a male with those colors.

Answer 10

This is pretty normal. You only need to run to the vet when she starts to feed grass to her kittens.