Is it wrong to take kitten from stray mother cats?

Question

My honey say the mommy don't care because she has baby every 3 months but i just want to know you who experience it out there?

Answer 1

I adopted a kitten that was taken from a feral mother. The mother had the litter in part of a warehouse. One of the warehouse workers took all of the kittens home with him once they were 6 weeks old and then asked around to friends and family to find homes. My friend mentioned it to me so I adopted the cutest little white kitten. He really had no trouble finding homes for any of them. I took the kitten to the vet and she was healthy. That was 8 years ago and I still have her. She's had no medical problems and has a sweet, reserved personality. I think she may be a few generations wild because she still tends to hide a bit.
After he took the kittens, he called a trap-nueter-release program and they trapped the cat and took it away. There was no colony at the warehouse, so they fixed her and released her at another location that had a healthy colony.

There really is nothing wrong with adopting a wild kitten as long as you prepare yourself that the new kitty may not be in optimum health when you go for your checkup. If the momma is friendly, you may be able to help find her a new home but I don't think you are obligated to. Just remember that she will keep breeding and soon you may have too many wild cats around and they can be quite disgusting and destructive.

Answer 2

I took in a 3 week old kitten because the mother disappeared after the house next door had a fire. The noise of the firemen chased the stray mom cat away, leaving the little adventurer alone for a full 7 days. The kitten finally made enough noise to be found (by my pit bull) and was so young, I had to litter box train it. The kitten is now 1 1/2 years old, taller than my 17 year old 'tom' cat and still thinks he's going to grow up to be a pit bull! Just make sure you have the kitten fixed, there are too many strays already.

Answer 3

It is wrong to take the kitten if the kitten is still nursing. If you don't have experience caring for a very young kitten, don't try it now.

Please call your city's animal control service to come get the stray mother and kittens. They will be much better off with someone feeding them, and the animal control services people know how to care for a mother and kittens.

If you want a kitten, please adopt one that is already weaned from animal control. You can find the phone number under City of ---- in the phonebook.

Answer 4

If the kitten is the right age to be weaned and become a pet (about 6 weeks), you'd be doing it a favor by giving it a home instead of letting it grow up feral.

Stray cats care as much a tame ones do, but both can let go of the kittens at the same age. If you can catch the stray mom and have her spayed, it would be doing her a big favor.

Answer 5

The mother and her kittens should all be taken together to an animal shelter. That would keep the mother and kittens together (as they should be) and solve the problem of a stray cat.

Answer 6

If you make the kitten's life happier then it's perfectly alright! Kittens soon start to think of the owner as the mother and it's more safer for a kitten to be looked after in a good home

Answer 7

If the kitten has been weaned there is no reason it cannot be taken from it's mother...but why on earth don't you trap the mother so she can be spayed so you do not have to keep taking her kittens away. Spay the cat...do more kittens! Problem solved.

Answer 8

this is WRONG. kittens just like puppies needs attention from their mothers just as much as human babies and human mothers. unless they're in a stressful situation where they are suffering and need to be taken care of, you shouldn't remove them from the mother.
instead, take in the mother and the kittykats. they need the shelter from the elements and cold and food+water,etc. OR take them to a local humane society. they will take care of the cat and kittens.

Answer 9

If I were you, I would catch the momma cat and get rid of the whole problem.

Momma cats usually can't have new kittens that quickly anyway- and it's not good for their health to breed as fast as they can in any case.

Answer 10

If it isn't 6 weeks, it has to be completely cared for by you in place of the mother, if it is, you most likely are going to give it a better life than being a stray could've, so go food you.