Despite the beauty of cats and her love for human owners, they are still very mysterious animals and love to enjoy special privacy so they hide their young in strange places and unknown and may change the place of her children from time to time.
Cats largely follow their instincts, and most of their instinctive actions stem from qualities inherited from their ancestors that lived in the wild and forest. They used to hunt and escape from prey, so some of their strange behaviors are always associated with their ancestors.
Why cats change the place of their young children
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As we have explained to you, cats have inherited some behaviors from their ancestors, including hiding and fleeing enemies.
Cats used to hide and escape from their enemies and you may now know the first answer to the question of why cats change the place of children and their children constantly, a sense of insecurity or the threat of anything and the simplest things.
Small cats depend on the mother for everything, eating, hygiene, movement and protection, and the mother cat is aware of her instinct that God created her so she may change the place of young cats because of the strange smell or voice that you think threatens their lives.
Changing the place of young cats normal behavior
Although cats are domesticated animals and have lived with humans for thousands of years but still enjoy these instinctive qualities that we have mentioned to you.
Cats then run behind the prey or behind anything moving, for example. Similarly, cats like to sit in high places because they imitate their ancestors in the forests of old. Read: Why cats like to sit in high places.
So the cats' place of birth may have everything you need from your point of view, but cats may have another opinion.
Also, cats, even if they find the place suitable for their young, may change it and try somewhere else that you think is safer. Sometimes you may leave some of your young ones in a place and others nearby, and then move them all to the new place.
All these behaviors indicate instinctive behavior in cats should not be interfered with as long as the cats are safe and enjoy normal growth rate.
1- Make sure the lighting quality, adequate isolation and proximity to the place of food to where the cats are born
Cats are creatures that love the dark more than light, so the mother cat will look for a dark place for the birth of small cats, if you notice that the cat is transporting her children make sure the amount of lighting in this place and have changed recently?
Another reason to change the cat where the young is after the place about the place of food and drink or beyond the liter Box (waste box).
Cats at some point will begin to help their children go out, explore the place and train on the food and the Litter Box, so if the place of birth is far away, the mother cat will change the place of her children to get a little closer to the food.
2- Is there someone you do not like at home?
Cats If they do not like someone they will never change their point of view, the cats' memory works uniquely so if they have an impression of a member of the house they will not change it
Similarly, she may have taken a hostile attitude towards children in general, or men or women in general, because of the attitude of what she had gone through when she was young and did not forget him.
If you notice that the cat has changed the place of its young, make sure that there is no one in the vicinity of its place or a voice that causes a threat of any kind.
Sometimes the sound of barking dogs on the street may bother your cat and push her to fear for her children and thus move them to a safer place from her point of view.
3- Have you touched small cats?
Cats recognize their environment mainly through the sense of smell, so changing the smell of small cats may push them to strange and unconventional behaviors.
It is always recommended not to touch or move small cats or try to see them from strangers before the third week after birth.
Cats are mysterious and private animals that are completely different from dogs in this matter, so be very careful in dealing with the mother cat and provide safety factors for her until pregnancy and childbirth raise her children safely and calm without problems
