This sounds like a silly question.Our kittens are a mixed variety of colours.It was my sister who brought up this issue.She thinks females can breed with more than 1 male.Is this true?I want to settle an argument.Some of the kittens dont look like the cat Ihave seen.A couple look like the mother buthere are some ringins.
2007-01-20 12:34:15 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Pets ➔ Cats
HI
They can mate with several males and have babies from each mating so yes a litter can have different dads.
LAmmy
2007-01-20 12:37:22 · answer #1 · answered by Clammy S 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Definatley 100% true!! I had a cat that was grey. Before I could get her fixed, I had left a window open over night and woke up the next morning with her in the living room and four male cats sitting around her. One was black, one orange tabby, one orange and white. A few weeks later I caught her again with yet another cat that was oddly colored. When the kittens were born, there were five, one colored like her, and four of the 'suitors'. The vet said that a female cat can be impregnated by more than one male. He explained that the runt that we had was probably from the later male and that is why it is a runt, because it wasn't full term.
If you still need proof, call any vet on Monday and they will tell you the same thing. Congrats on the kitties!!!
OH, btw, we also kept one kitten because we had been told by several people, including our vet, that a grand majority of the time the momma will turn mean if you take all her babies away. So, if you are able to keep one, then she will stay nice. Plus it is amazing to see them mother a kitten. We kept two from her litter and she 'breast fed' one of them for four months. She litter trained them and everything. Luckily we kept two because she was later killed and now the two siblings are 11 years old and best buds.
Conrats again!!! Good Luck with the lil guys!!
2007-01-20 13:57:09 · answer #2 · answered by The cat did it. 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yes, kittens in the same litter can be sired by completely different fathers, but genetics ALWAYS plays a role in what a single kitten's color will be too!
For example, a Calico mother carries genes for orange and black, plus other colors that are covered up by the black. My cat is a Dilute Tuxedo Torbie (Tortoiseshell Tabby/Tiger). She is a calico that does not have clear defined spots and has tiger stripes, she is orange and black. Because she is dilute she LOOKS grey and peach in color, but she CAN PRODUCE Completely Orange, Completely Black, Completely Peach, Completely Grey, Orange Tabby, Peach Tabby, Grey Tabby, Orange Tuxedo, Black Tuxedo, Grey Tuxedo, Peach Tuxedo, Orange Tabby Tuxedo, Grey Tabby Tuxedo, Peach Tabby Tuxedo, Calico, Dilute Calico, Tortoiseshell and Dilute Tortoiseshell kittens. This is all without throwing in the monkey wrench of the father cats' genetics as well.
So a kitten will look like what the genetics of the parents say it will look like... doesn't matter who the "baby daddy" is if she has had multiple partners.
2007-01-21 06:26:12 · answer #3 · answered by Jo 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They absolutely can, and usually do. Our 12 year old calico, Trixie (back in her younger days) went missing for a solid week. One evening while sweeping the porch, I heard a peculiar sound coming from the cedar bush. I took my broom, poked the tree, and down came not one, not two, but three tom cats! She came down finally... We took her to the Vet, and he told us that she's probably pregnant by all the toms, and indeed she was. She gave birth to 3 kittens, and each kitten looked just like the toms that came out of the tree. A kitten for each tom cat. It was pretty wild :)
2007-01-20 12:44:20 · answer #4 · answered by mojojo66 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Female cats can produce litters in which multiple males have fertilized eggs. This is the most common reason why a momma cat with have babies that look nothing like her or the presumed father.
2007-01-20 12:49:49 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Female cats are "induced ovulators". When they are penetrated by the male the egg is released from the ovary. They are not like human females who release eggs monthly whether they have intercourse or not. So there can be any number of fathers for the kittens.
2007-01-20 14:53:02 · answer #6 · answered by old cat lady 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes, a queen can mate with more than one tom, and she can conceive by more than one of them. It's not uncommon at all for littermates to have different fathers. Among strays and ferals that can mate freely, it's probably extremely rare for a litter to be all sired by the same tom.
2007-01-20 13:53:29 · answer #7 · answered by Mick 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i have not in any respect felt that way except they gave me a reason. i'm a exceptionally relax woman..i come across myself hangin with the adult males more advantageous than the ladies. i imagine magazines, t.v, internet and volume one on the record- woman fashions is what receives to females (consciously or subconsciously) and once they see someone who feels like that or who's attempting to be like that they get disillusioned b/c they too attempt to be like that and they experience that they could't pull it off like another women. women will really hate one yet another at the same time as there is adult males in touch. so yeah, that's continuously jelousy and having no self belief or too a lot self belief. yet jelousy ability they dont' recognize who they are (they try to be those fashions b/c thats what they imagine they want to be)women are very emotional too..yet that is what i have talked about from my intense college days.
2016-12-02 19:44:21 · answer #8 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Cats and dogs can both breed with a variety of "suitors". Each kitten and pup developes separate from the others in its own sac.
2007-01-20 12:38:40 · answer #9 · answered by Fetch 11 Humane Society 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Oh yes. They can mate with a lot of males. The kittens can all have different fathers.
2007-01-20 12:38:01 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋