Domesticated cats
usually, the age of 7-12 months old is the perfect time for a female cat to
bread and give birth. Most of you don’t know that cats can give birth for as
often as 5 times a year. The development period for cats for about 63-65 days
only and their delivery time only lasts for about 2 hours. Usually, they give
life to up to 4 kittens. Each kitten is born using a different amniotic sac
from the other. They also have umbilical cord and placenta which they eat to
start lactation of the mother cat. These
kittens are blind upon birth. Their senses will start upon reaching 10-12 days
of life. The mother cat licks her kittens to be able to clean them and to
stimulate their passage. Kittens upon birth don’t have distinct colour but
eventually this will develop after a few weeks of life.
Wild cats are
different from domestic cats because they only give birth once a year. And
their kittens are typically 3 upon birth. Now that the world is in the midst of
modern times, castration of male cat is typically done and it is usually done
during the 6-7th month of the cat’s life. This is to control the male cat’s
tendency to mark objects around the house using his urine. While the female cat
goes through a process which is called spraying, in this process the female cat
is sprayed with a certain type of drug that is intended to reduce the risk of
breast cancer and also to reduce the risk of uterine diseases.
The life expectancy of cats usually last for about 10-15 years especially
when they are well taken care of. Domesticated cats typically live longer than
wild cats because their space is only limited and they are not prone to
parasites and other ailments which are known to be dreadful and causes fatality
in cats.
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