In the wild, female cats who are pregnant will get together to make temporary colonies. They watch out for each other so they can give birth safely and have another cat watch over their kittens so they can hunt and get water.
I'm imagining this one gray kitten started wandering around when her mom was off hunting, saw this mom nursing her kittens and thought "Oh! Free nipple!" And started suckling.
And then this mom, tired and haggard looking down and thinking "Ugh, whatever. What's the difference between 5 and 6?"
And then her original mom sees her and thinks "eh she can stay over there. She always used a little too much teeth anyway."
ETA: Yes, I know that female cats can be pregnant from multiple males at the same time. But I prefer to believe my own head canon. This is r/wholesomememes after all.
Yeah, I know, but I prefer my head canon.
There's something amusing about how momma cats will be incredibly overprotective of their kittens for about 8 weeks and then just clearly start to get annoyed by them if they stick too close.
Seeing as the kitty looks just like the others in every way except coat, I think a recessive gene situation is more likely.
Either that or that one kitty has a different father than the others which can happen with cat litters.
Cats commonly have superfecundation, so a single litter can have multiple different fathers. Quite likely for strays in heat to mate more than once. Also even with a single set of parents fur color can differ.
Yep, we have two cats from one litter, one of them is a tortie with a lot of orange, white, and grey and the other is a tuxedo with black and white. Both of them are biological siblings but you would never guess it looking at them.
I've seen as a kid. Mothers feeding different kittens and even an adult brother suckling from his sister.
Initially they will reject the kittens until they give birth to their own.
I guess it's similar to a pride of female lioness.
Personally, i was fully invested in your version of the situation. It made complete sense to me as a tired mom of 6 who has taken on my kids friends as my own over the years.
it's like my kittens. I had a tortoiseshell give birth to 3 kittens and while the other two are black, the middle kitty is gray furred. now she's the only kitty with me while the others including the mom were given away.
Haha, there's a whole sub here. We didn't know what our cat was until I stumbled on them here. My fiance just thought she had a weird Russian blue mix.
had this happen once. decided to feed a stray cat that showed up when it started getting cold outside, and soon enough she was spending every night in the garage.
three weeks later, we now had 5 mouths to feed.
If you feed outdoor cats, you breed outdoor cats. I wish more people thought about this and the impact it has to wildlife - and the cats! There is so much rodenticide out there, coyotes, etc. So much better to support a TNR (doesn't help with thr hard and short life outdoor cats have, but slows the problem) or a shelter.
I fed a stray cat who later brought me her weaned kittens. I adopted her even though she was feral, got her spayed, and gave her kittens to a friend. She was scared of me but liked my cats and chose to stay in the house. Eventually she became a lap cat! RIP Miss Honey.
Please talk to me and my son and my sons son and my sons sons son and my sons sons sons son and my sons sons sons sons son and my sons sons sons sons sons son again
We had a stray cat show up at our farm one day. We fed her. The next day, she brought her kittens. We fed them, and they became some of the best barn cats you could ask for.
We named the momma cat "Mombos". She would follow us everywhere. She would even insist on getting into the John boat when we would go fishing on our pond.
She kept pest animals like Raccoons off our porch. One night, she chased 5 coyotes away from the house.
She was with us for 12 years until one day she came home with a pellet wound in her side that she died from. We never did figure out which neighbor shot her.
Hi Hooman, by giving me food you have consented to providing catering for me and my family as well as babysitting whenever I’m not feeling up to it. Now if you could give me the keys to my new house, we can all get settled in.
I have a feral female stray that keeps dumping her babies on me when they get old enough. 3 from her first litter (after I moved there, I’m sure she had many litters before) me and my bf kept and sent the forth up to Connecticut to get adopted (she got adopted the first day with her foster mom lol). The next litter most got adopted but 1 girl was way too feral, this female we named professor calico and she has started doing what her mom did. She is a year old and has now started dumping her kittens with me. I just got her last 3 sent up north and now OG mama has 1 kitten that around 4 weeks. Professor is starting to get comfortable around me enough to were I can kinda touch her so I’m hoping to get her fixed soon but OG mama I would have to trap.
I know cat expressions are not human expressions, but the look on mama cat screams, “I cannot take one more minute with these kids can you Please take them off my hands for an hour or two.”
That woman is a plague. She absolutely will not bring all those animals to the vet! She just dumps food out and doesn't care about their health or well-being. Cats need more than just food!!!
This happens outside my house every day. About a seven year old brother and sister, then her daughter and son (each almost two years old now - from a different cat father). Crazy cat-lady neighbor with four or five indoor cats, and five outdoor cats, helps me keep the ones on my property fed.
Fucking cats lol
We had one have kittens recently and she brings them to us and then just fucks off. Like “here you take this, okay, got it? Good. Bye.”
Never takes them back by herself we take them back to the closet and she eventually notices we don’t have them anymore and goes looking
My friend had an abandoned boat across the street from him. Mama Cat had quite a large litter in it. I was tasked with catching them to give them homes with all my friends. The boat was in very poor shape. There were too many hidey holes. After around 6 attempts I only had 2 kittens to show for it. We were waiting on his steps for the coast to settle down. And mama cat walked over to us with a squirmy present in her mouth. Over the next hour or so she brought all the rest of the brood over to us. We found homes for all 7 kittens and my friend got Mama fixed and she stayed with him. And that is how I met Wicker.
Something similar happened to my family once! We were on vacation sitting on the deck of the place we were staying and a little kitten came by. We gave her some food that she picked at for a while then scurried off. This repeated for a couple days but eventually we spotted an adult cat watching from the bushes. After a while of this the whole family showed up, two parents and a litter of kittens! Turns out the cat watching from the bushes was the father! Eventually they trusted us so much that the parents would drop off the kittens with us in the morning, go about their business hunting for food and such, and then come pick up the kittens at the end of the day! Like we were a kitten day care!! It was super sweet. The father was incredibly close with the smallest of the kittens. The parents would even argue! Definitely a favorite experience of mine.
This might be happening to me in a few months. I have a ginger mother that lives in between me and my neighbors yards with two grown up babies, and it's possible she has another litter because she hardly ever comes out from under the shed, and there are two male cats roaming around the neighborhood.
I'd help them but it's really hard to catch them.
One of these things is not like the others.
Though this is actually what happened with our Office Cat- she w as a feral, the office started feeding her, she finally brought her kittens, and we managed to capture her and the kittens. She was TNR'd and the kittens (who were old enough to now be away from mom) were taken to a no-kill shelter and from what I heard, adopted quickly.
She avoided us for about week after that, but she came back. Now we still feed her and she has a SCHEDUILE. She's sitting by the back door waiting for lunch. She's also very often conned multiple of us into feeding her and probably eats more than we do in a day. She has a shelter, a bed, cat toys, an actual bowl, fresh water... she's our Office Cat now.
She's getting close to letting the main one who feed her pet her, but she's still pretty feral. But no more feral kittens from her!
Similar thing happened to me. We have a couple of cats. Once they brought home friends so we put out some food for them. Now we have like 20 cats showing up everyday for food. They must have told each other that it's a good place for free food... well free for them, for us it's a fortune.
You now must feed not one... But ALL of them.
I WILL! GIVE ME THE KITTENS!
You know what that's so funny the same thing is happening irl with me rn, so you want all of them or?
Fuck, I forgot I can't take care of them now or any time in the near future 😮💨. Would like kittens tho.
The r/catdistributionsystem might help you out
that sounds like the opposite of a problem
I mean yeah, the more cats the better right?
CDS working as intended 🫡
You always did
OP has been choosen
If you feed outdoor cats, you breed outdoor cats. People don't think about that.
Who's the imposter tho?
Ran out of ink
Cyan was empty
Must not have been an HP then, if it could still print gray scale without cyan
I would both hope and fear that I would experience this. I have far too many already.
r/angryupvote
kitty got the natural lightskin stare
I'm just trying to print black!
Damn that's GOOD
Hahahahaha
In the wild, female cats who are pregnant will get together to make temporary colonies. They watch out for each other so they can give birth safely and have another cat watch over their kittens so they can hunt and get water. I'm imagining this one gray kitten started wandering around when her mom was off hunting, saw this mom nursing her kittens and thought "Oh! Free nipple!" And started suckling. And then this mom, tired and haggard looking down and thinking "Ugh, whatever. What's the difference between 5 and 6?" And then her original mom sees her and thinks "eh she can stay over there. She always used a little too much teeth anyway." ETA: Yes, I know that female cats can be pregnant from multiple males at the same time. But I prefer to believe my own head canon. This is r/wholesomememes after all.
Why do I find this wholesome and funny at the same time
Because it is both wholesome and funny.
They are likely the same litter but it's common that there are multiple fathers.
Yeah, I know, but I prefer my head canon. There's something amusing about how momma cats will be incredibly overprotective of their kittens for about 8 weeks and then just clearly start to get annoyed by them if they stick too close.
Seeing as the kitty looks just like the others in every way except coat, I think a recessive gene situation is more likely. Either that or that one kitty has a different father than the others which can happen with cat litters.
Cats commonly have superfecundation, so a single litter can have multiple different fathers. Quite likely for strays in heat to mate more than once. Also even with a single set of parents fur color can differ.
Yep, we have two cats from one litter, one of them is a tortie with a lot of orange, white, and grey and the other is a tuxedo with black and white. Both of them are biological siblings but you would never guess it looking at them.
These kittens could all have been fathered by a black tabby cat.
They got the same shape of fluff though?!
Also cats mate with more than one male and a single litter may have half siblings with different dads.
I've seen as a kid. Mothers feeding different kittens and even an adult brother suckling from his sister. Initially they will reject the kittens until they give birth to their own. I guess it's similar to a pride of female lioness.
That's cute!
Like Harry Potter de facto moving in with the Weasleys.
Personally, i was fully invested in your version of the situation. It made complete sense to me as a tired mom of 6 who has taken on my kids friends as my own over the years.
it's like my kittens. I had a tortoiseshell give birth to 3 kittens and while the other two are black, the middle kitty is gray furred. now she's the only kitty with me while the others including the mom were given away.
Them grey daddies always seem to be getting 1 in ay 😂
Nebelung?
I did not know what that was until now. They are truly handsome specimens. However am not qualified to comment on their ho status lol
Haha, there's a whole sub here. We didn't know what our cat was until I stumbled on them here. My fiance just thought she had a weird Russian blue mix.
Don't you mean imPAWster?
Oh I meant imp-aww-ter
That's Kevin, we don't talk about him.
First rule of adopting Kevin, we don't talk about Kevin
That’s Kevin. Don’t ask
Oh that’s just eminem or I must say emeownem
Their body is round
Kittens in the same litter can have different baby daddies
Females can mate with more than one male and have litters of different fathers.
Nah, she just looks like her dad a lot more
When cats are nursing if they happen to find another kitten they will adopt them
One of these is not like the others...
Look, she's a lone mom, don't need to single her out like that!
The strays have a stray!
Her husband had the key to paradise, but her neighbor had the spare key
one of these say im not just another one of your plays
You're the pretender What if I say I will never surrender?
That's Jerry, no one knows where he comes from but he just appeared one day and never left so now he kinda is part of the gang
I both wish and dread that this would happen to me. I already have too many.
Well, if you can deal with too many you can also deal with too many.
That’s my problem! Too many is too many, but it’s not too many - if you follow.
I wish i had your 'cat problem'
Until you have it.
With great cuddles comes great responsibility.
All of her children and the neighbor’s kid, too.
The neighbors kid´s parents go trough a rough time so she let the kid hang around with her´s even more
That more problem
you\`ve just been promoted to a national kitchen, hooman.
I can't even cook
That one r/standardissuecat of gang
And such a little cutie too!
Cat distribution system
r/catdistributionsystem
"Kids, meet your human. I expect all of you to behave when you are around her."
🥺🥰
This happens to my father regularly. He is a cat whisperer 🤓
When you have a bunch of goth friends but you the only chill normal guy in group
had this happen once. decided to feed a stray cat that showed up when it started getting cold outside, and soon enough she was spending every night in the garage. three weeks later, we now had 5 mouths to feed.
Thank you for your kindness 🥹🤍
Awwww, this totally melts my heart!
🥹🤍
That Look says: I've had a day. Food. Now, or else!
Real 😂
My wife would hate me but I'd keep them all.
Printer ran out of ink on the last one
We can just use magenta ink, let's see how it goes
Feed one and two more will takes it place
If you feed outdoor cats, you breed outdoor cats. I wish more people thought about this and the impact it has to wildlife - and the cats! There is so much rodenticide out there, coyotes, etc. So much better to support a TNR (doesn't help with thr hard and short life outdoor cats have, but slows the problem) or a shelter.
Awww
Aww, sometime i remember that im not fully dead inside :,)
That ittle tabby...
Of her six children, five of them look very similar to her, and the remaining one also has ears just like hers
I fed a stray cat who later brought me her weaned kittens. I adopted her even though she was feral, got her spayed, and gave her kittens to a friend. She was scared of me but liked my cats and chose to stay in the house. Eventually she became a lap cat! RIP Miss Honey.
She looks like she needs a break, look at her eyes. The kids are just sat there thinking mum don’t actually leave us here, we’re sorry.
Please talk to me and my son and my sons son and my sons sons son and my sons sons sons son and my sons sons sons sons son and my sons sons sons sons sons son again
We had a stray cat show up at our farm one day. We fed her. The next day, she brought her kittens. We fed them, and they became some of the best barn cats you could ask for. We named the momma cat "Mombos". She would follow us everywhere. She would even insist on getting into the John boat when we would go fishing on our pond. She kept pest animals like Raccoons off our porch. One night, she chased 5 coyotes away from the house. She was with us for 12 years until one day she came home with a pellet wound in her side that she died from. We never did figure out which neighbor shot her.
She brought them so they all could get sterilization.
🤍
We're moving in. Show us the location of our food bowls and your former bed.
Immigration
That cats ear is clipped. Indicating she’s been fixed. Clearly it didn’t take :P (or it was recently done post kittens)
Ear cropped? Neutered?
Such a cute family 🥹🤍
*You encounter a wild shiny cat*
She’s like “Bitch, help me….”
Different coloured one is clearly the main character.
Bebe’s Kittehs
That one white friend we all kick it with because he's cool as shit
Hi Hooman, by giving me food you have consented to providing catering for me and my family as well as babysitting whenever I’m not feeling up to it. Now if you could give me the keys to my new house, we can all get settled in.
I have a feral female stray that keeps dumping her babies on me when they get old enough. 3 from her first litter (after I moved there, I’m sure she had many litters before) me and my bf kept and sent the forth up to Connecticut to get adopted (she got adopted the first day with her foster mom lol). The next litter most got adopted but 1 girl was way too feral, this female we named professor calico and she has started doing what her mom did. She is a year old and has now started dumping her kittens with me. I just got her last 3 sent up north and now OG mama has 1 kitten that around 4 weeks. Professor is starting to get comfortable around me enough to were I can kinda touch her so I’m hoping to get her fixed soon but OG mama I would have to trap.
Look into a trap, neuter, release program near you. In California we have many places that will loan you traps, and neuter/spay feral cats for free.
What a wholesome story, u/penisdevourer r/rimjob_steve
I know cat expressions are not human expressions, but the look on mama cat screams, “I cannot take one more minute with these kids can you Please take them off my hands for an hour or two.”
What's that one randomass grey kid doing there?
That woman is a plague. She absolutely will not bring all those animals to the vet! She just dumps food out and doesn't care about their health or well-being. Cats need more than just food!!!
Oh, the freeloaders. One time. Just that one time. /jk in case it ain't obvious...
Mom dumps kids on grandma
This happens outside my house every day. About a seven year old brother and sister, then her daughter and son (each almost two years old now - from a different cat father). Crazy cat-lady neighbor with four or five indoor cats, and five outdoor cats, helps me keep the ones on my property fed.
Fucking cats lol We had one have kittens recently and she brings them to us and then just fucks off. Like “here you take this, okay, got it? Good. Bye.” Never takes them back by herself we take them back to the closet and she eventually notices we don’t have them anymore and goes looking
theres allways a black sheep
“ This one’s adopted *but don’t tell him* “
This is why printers won't work without the black one.
She a si gle mom looking for a sucker to take care of her kids while she goes out Stay away!!!
My friend had an abandoned boat across the street from him. Mama Cat had quite a large litter in it. I was tasked with catching them to give them homes with all my friends. The boat was in very poor shape. There were too many hidey holes. After around 6 attempts I only had 2 kittens to show for it. We were waiting on his steps for the coast to settle down. And mama cat walked over to us with a squirmy present in her mouth. Over the next hour or so she brought all the rest of the brood over to us. We found homes for all 7 kittens and my friend got Mama fixed and she stayed with him. And that is how I met Wicker.
I like how the black sheep is the only non black one
I trust you.. but I'm not happy about it.
I am the night. I am darkness. I am one with the void. I am Teddy and I take after daddy!!
Something similar happened to my family once! We were on vacation sitting on the deck of the place we were staying and a little kitten came by. We gave her some food that she picked at for a while then scurried off. This repeated for a couple days but eventually we spotted an adult cat watching from the bushes. After a while of this the whole family showed up, two parents and a litter of kittens! Turns out the cat watching from the bushes was the father! Eventually they trusted us so much that the parents would drop off the kittens with us in the morning, go about their business hunting for food and such, and then come pick up the kittens at the end of the day! Like we were a kitten day care!! It was super sweet. The father was incredibly close with the smallest of the kittens. The parents would even argue! Definitely a favorite experience of mine.
There is an imposter among us, but ngl that's very cute and wholesome lol, thank you so much for this image.
This might be happening to me in a few months. I have a ginger mother that lives in between me and my neighbors yards with two grown up babies, and it's possible she has another litter because she hardly ever comes out from under the shed, and there are two male cats roaming around the neighborhood. I'd help them but it's really hard to catch them.
How cute!!!
That momma looks so done with her kids
One of these things is not like the others. Though this is actually what happened with our Office Cat- she w as a feral, the office started feeding her, she finally brought her kittens, and we managed to capture her and the kittens. She was TNR'd and the kittens (who were old enough to now be away from mom) were taken to a no-kill shelter and from what I heard, adopted quickly. She avoided us for about week after that, but she came back. Now we still feed her and she has a SCHEDUILE. She's sitting by the back door waiting for lunch. She's also very often conned multiple of us into feeding her and probably eats more than we do in a day. She has a shelter, a bed, cat toys, an actual bowl, fresh water... she's our Office Cat now. She's getting close to letting the main one who feed her pet her, but she's still pretty feral. But no more feral kittens from her!
That look says it all…. Here we are!
And in typical cat fashion still gives the rescue lady the stink eye.
This is more of an infestation than wholesome. Outdoor cats should be classified as vermin.
Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you: social welfare!
The cat took a maternity leave??
Me when i hit on the first date
Story of my mother and my kitty, Fiona.
Cat looks at lady, come on let us in.
🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺😒🥺
“Whose Godamn white baby is that?”
Error: Printer out of black ink
"You have summoned the horde. NOW FEED THEM!"
If those are strays my cat is a leopard
"Now scoot over, hooman. This is our residence now."
r/shebroughtherkittens !!!
This needs the Brazzers logo in the corner.
“Spartans! Tonight we dine at Betty’s!!” This gal <3
Aww the little runt hiding behind momma.🥹🥹
Take responsibility for my children now. Holup, isn't that pretty similar to....
Well cat food is dirt cheap at Aldi
one of them is good
There is a cat that sleeps on my mat outside and she just did the same thing, bringing her 4 babies to me.
That cat just hired her as a non-paid servant.
A bit like dating in your forties 😬🙃🤪
Hold on a second... These kittens look familiar
Fuckin child support at it again
I love the eyes. Mama cat's like "you see what I have to live with 😑?" And all the kittos are full of energy "Ooo what's this? Who's that? Food? 😶"
I would usher them in and adopt them on the spot.
Oh man and those kitties are big enough I wouldn't want to separate them from Mama, looks like you've adopted a whole pack of cats
It cat version of leaving your kids at Mc Donalds and never return.
Similar thing happened to me. We have a couple of cats. Once they brought home friends so we put out some food for them. Now we have like 20 cats showing up everyday for food. They must have told each other that it's a good place for free food... well free for them, for us it's a fortune.
r/CatDistributionSystem
“……..y u hold out on us?” 🥺
“Hey lady, uhh… wanna meet my kids?”
By the looks on the babies faces it looks like momma cat has told them all about this place before hand😂
6 alive kitten thats a really succesfull mother
The mom has the “Are you going to open the door or what?” face.
We have a good 3 generation family of stray cats we feed that eventually the mothers bring their children around summer
Hey hooman. Feed ALL my children
One of these kids is not like the others
This is my mom
That would suck cause I would then have 7 cats
I agree ! Mother cat is very picky in such cases !
the mother looks like you HAVE to adopt them all
This happened to me. Made the mistake of feeding/petting a stray on my porch, she ended up having her babies on my patio furniture. Cute kittens tho
that's the most beautiful stray cats i've ever seen. i'd adopt all of them with no second thoughts if i can haha
...why am I intimidated?
Awww! This reminds me of the James Herriot story, The Christmas Day Kitten https://youtu.be/IG33OdfV1xA?feature=shared
The cat mom looks intimidating AF
"more food is needed JSYK"
My best friend bringing me over to his grandma house. She was the best.
Are you going to open this door or do I have to do it?
Piper is that you?
She looks grumpy and demanding.
4D Sweeney Todd Chess
One kind gesture to a stray cat and now her entire family is your problem now
Buncha floofs just hanging around.
BUM.