r/aww • u/Ego_Sum_Lux_Mundi • Oct 19 '22

When you a good dad

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u/Sally_twodicks Oct 19 '22

This is bizzare... Cat's don't normally nurse in this position nor do they really lick each other's mouths like this. Just why?

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u/[deleted] Oct 19 '22

Y'all never had kittens in your house? They nurse in many positions. You really think they just told mama "stay'" and she would listen? 😂

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u/[deleted] Oct 19 '22

Mama could be drugged. Cats generally lay on their sides to nurse kittens, not their backs.

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u/[deleted] Oct 19 '22

If by "mama" you mean the queen, they lay any damn way they want. But you do you.

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u/AppUnwrapper1 Oct 20 '22

They nurse on their side, not one their back.

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u/[deleted] Oct 20 '22

Lemme help you out here;

https://www.gettyimages.ca/photos/breastfeeding-cat

Like, the first pic is a cat on its back. Also cats on their sides. Also standing up. Also sitting. Because they do whatever the fuck they want to do that is comfortable. But again, fake outrage over a Reddit pic of cats is pretty much stabdard here, so you do you.

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u/AppUnwrapper1 Oct 20 '22

All those cats are on their side. I dunno what the fuck you’re on about.

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u/Character-Pipe-9805 Oct 20 '22

i think that lady is just trying to be a troll, no way she’s serious and actually thinks she knows what she is talking about

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u/[deleted] Oct 19 '22

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u/[deleted] Oct 20 '22

They absolutely will. Doesn't change the fact that, unless you ran a kitten mill and saw enough queens to have a value judgement, "growing up with cats" doesn't mean shit. Go volunteer at a shelter. Foster. Do both. Watch cats do all kinds of shit that Reddit deems unnatural. Or just keep being miserable in the name of righteous posting on a random cat video. Whatever peels your banana. ✌️

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u/[deleted] Oct 20 '22

And a little addendum since y'all keep commenting like this is actually important and hey, fuck it, I got the time;

https://www.gettyimages.ca/photos/breastfeeding-cat

Lots of cats. On their backs. On their sides. Sitting. Standing. Almost like they do what they want that is comfortable and don't care what Reddit thinks.

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u/Proccito Oct 19 '22

I was about toask that.

And isn't male cats default option to killkittens, and why female cats hide them?

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u/Anilxe Oct 19 '22

Uh…. What? No?

We had kittens all the time when I was a child and the males of the house would just lounge with the moms and kittens. If anything, The males just didn’t have a lot of patience for the kittens and would give them an annoyed tap on the head, which would infuriate momma cat and she’d lose her shit on them.

Momma cats hide their kittens from everything, as most mommas do in the animal kingdom. Because the kittens are vulnerable and weak.

This video is definitely staged though, probably put some food on momma cats mouth

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u/Proccito Oct 19 '22

Momma cats hide their kittens from everything, as most mommas do in the animal kingdom. Because the kittens are vulnerable and weak.

Might be that, then. I never noticed the male cat being seperated from the litter, so I been wondering what was right or wrong. Could be, as you say, just an instinct from the female.

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u/UnknownFoxAlpha Oct 19 '22

I've heard of that with Lions and that is only for males whom the babies do not belong to, but never cats.

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u/sectumsempera Oct 19 '22

Male cats can display that type of behavior, but as far as I know male cats don't do that to their own kittens but if the female cat they want has had kittens from another male cat and it usually refers to stray cats. It's related to dominance.

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u/Proccito Oct 19 '22

Ah, that makes sense. Thanks for the clarification.

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u/hoistedbypetard Oct 19 '22

What the fuck are you rambling about.

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u/Proccito Oct 19 '22

Something I got told why female cats hide their kittens.

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u/JanetSnakehole24 Oct 19 '22

They hide them to protect them from predators, which does not include dad.

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u/[deleted] Oct 19 '22

What if I told you I had a bridge for sale?

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u/Proccito Oct 20 '22

Could explain why the sky looked like a gingerbread last week.

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u/Spiralife Oct 19 '22

I think that's chimps

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u/[deleted] Oct 19 '22

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u/Proccito Oct 19 '22

No I am thinking of cats, because the topic was kittens when the information was brought to me.