what happens if a Cat mates with its own offspring?

Question

There are a lot of cats in my neighborhood, and I know that it will happen sooner or later, so I'm curious to know.

Answer 1

i have heard that the babies can be deformed if that happens.

Answer 2

It has happened but since nobody knows the degree of kinship between cats people are unaware. I have a spayed female, mom to my neutered male, and they hate each other like poison. He does not know her as mom and she certainly isn't expecting flowers on Mother's Day.
What will happen if mother/son/father/daughter/brother/sister mate? Not much unless they are isolated for a long period of time, the gene pool becomes mucky, and some not so healthy traits get passed on. Usually the Queen Cat Mother takes care of those little genetic mishaps on her own. Though it distresses human sensibilities that a mother would abandon her own young, it is survival of the fittest and nature is not as sentimental about non-useful mutation as we'd like it to be.

Answer 3

thats how breeds are formed!its called "inbreeding" or line-breeding>"certain charachteristics ,such as appearance and temperament,will be strongly passed along.so will any genetic illnesses,unfortunately.this is why purebred dogs and cats-products of frquent inbreeding in their ancestry have more genetic illnesses,hip dysplasia,and various other types of mental/physical problems are more prevalent in "purebreds" rather than mixes.mixes posses "hybrid vigor"-a tendancy to be more healthy due to a variety of genes,not the same old sickly ones over and over again.if a cat with a genetic problem mates with another cat without the same diseased gene,no problem.if it mates with its own sibling,the offspring will inherit the bad gene from both parents,and have an illness.

Answer 4

That's an interesting question! I would think the animal genes would become deformed just as in humans. I found a link that talks about horses that may also apply to cats:

Answer 5

the offspring will get pregnant- Usually they can mate a couple times down (same with brother and sister) before you see obvious effects such as- abortions, early kitten death, sickly kittens, very stupid cats, suppressed immune systems, multi-colored eyes, etc.

Answer 6

well sometimes inbreeding (breeding like brother to sister or son to mom ect,) will have some pretty wild kittens and when i say that i mean like 3 eyes or not internal organs and it is pretty hard to live with out a heart or a brain

Answer 7

I think it would be find. Since brother and sisters can have babies that's okay. It's only a problem if it is humans

Answer 8

I think you get cats that chase parked cars.

Answer 9

It can and likely will result in inbreeding causing deformations.

Answer 10

thats when you start to get genetic deformations, like cleft palletts etc.

Answer 11

It's possible that the kittens will have some abnormalites...but it's unlikely.