Because domestic cats tend to be tender and protective of their offspring, Bast also was regarded as a good mother, and she was sometimes depicted with numerous kittens.

Lynxes tend to actively avoid encounters with wolverines, but may sometimes fight them if defending kittens.

There is no fixed breeding period in the southern part of its range ; in the colder northern range they tend to breed around March or April, when the weather is mild enough to support newborn kittens.

Tonkinese registered in associations with closed breed books may produce smaller litters of three or four kittens on average as a result of increasing inbreeding, but those registered where new blood can still be added to the breed tend to the larger litters that come with hybrid vigor, usually having five, six, or more kittens.

Yes, well, it's a pity to spoil your girlish figure -- which all those kittens would do anyway -- but I think when you've raised these we'll just have the vet fix it so there won't be any more.

The mewing sound may be used either as a close-contact call, typically between a mother and kittens, or as a louder, longer distance call, primarily during the mating season.

In 1978 and 1980, two further hairless female kittens were found in Toronto and were sent to Holland to be bred with Prune's last surviving male descendent.

Kittens are usually spayed or neutered at approximately seven months of age, but kittens as young as seven weeks may be neutered ( if large enough ), especially in animal shelters.

Depending on the age at which they were orphaned and how long they were without their mothers, these kittens may be severely underweight and as such can have health problems later in life, such as heart conditions.

In 1985, Koko was allowed to pick out two new kittens from a litter to be her companions.

Mm munchkin kittens will be able to pass on the munchkin gene to their own offspring.

* the old lady and her knitting play out a sequence of their own from page to page, starting with the knitting lying on the rocking chair, the old lady sitting in the chair with the ball of yarn on the floor at her feet, the ball farther away and starting to be unraveled by the kittens, the ball unraveled further, the ball entirely rerolled and back on the old lady's lap with the kittens regarding her expectantly, and finally with the lady and the knitting both gone and the kittens sleeping on the rocking chair.

He was shocked again after learning he would also be dating younger women (" kittens ").

This was to be followed by red, cream, and tortoiseshell kittens over the next couple of decades.

Vertical bars are visible on the fur of kittens, which disappear in adult cats, although a few dark markings may be retained on the limbs or tail.

Males usually do not participate in the raising of kittens, but in captivity have been observed to be very protective of their offspring, more than the females, or males of other cat species.

This birth was significant in that the kittens are the first of their species to be born as a result of in vitro fertilization utilizing frozen and thawed sperm and frozen and thawed embryos.

Oestrus in servals lasts for up to four days, and is typically timed so the kittens will be born shortly before the peak breeding period of local rodent populations.

One early import, " Dwina " owned by Russian Blue breeder Mrs Constance Carew-Cox and mentioned in Frances Simpson's " The Book of the Cat " ( 1903 ) produced a large number of " Siamese " kittens, while the other, Mrs Spearman's Blue Siamese male, " Nam Noi ", was declared to be a Russian Blue by cat show judges ( WR Hawkins, " Around the Pens " July 1896 ).

The official registration policy for Korats allows kittens to be registered as Thai if they are born to Korat parents, Thai parents or to one of each.

" ( Examiner ) In 2012, according to the Toronto Sun, " The legendary twins, who once graced the pages of Playboy, spearheaded the movement to track down a person posting on line videos of killing kittens believed to be alleged killer Luka Magnotta ".

It is used mainly in animal sheltering and rescue where puppies and kittens can be neutered before being adopted out, eliminating non-compliance with sterilisation agreement, which is typically above 40 %.

The most likely frequency pattern will be in such a mating one solid kitten, one pointed kitten, and two mink kittens.

Those kittens not fitting the breed standards perfectly are termed ' pet quality ' and are usually sold as companion pets, and for less money, since they can not be exhibited.

`` A lot of people are so peculiar that they don't like cats, it's not the easiest thing in the world to find good homes for kittens -- and, damn it, you know very well if I have them around long, impossible to give them away!!

Cat mothers are known to eat the feces of their newborn kittens during the very earliest phase after birth, presumably to eliminate cues to potential predators and to keep the den clean.

The first sphynx breeders faced a number of problems: The genetic pool was very limited ; breeders had rather vague ideas about sphynx genetics, and many kittens died.

The mother's milk is very important for the kittens ' nutrition and proper growth.

Newborn kittens are also unable to produce concentrated urine, and so have a very high requirement for fluids.

* Liz English as Marie-As the middle kitten, not only is she very bossy at times, but she also believes that by being female, she is the best of the three kittens, despite physically being the weakest and most accident-prone.

However, at the very end of the story, the cat gives birth to four kittens, revealing " him " to be a female.

The pictures of the kittens are, of course, naturally created, because a very young cat has supple bones, and can fit into tiny spaces with only a small amount of encouragement.

They are often very " busy " as kittens.

He seemed to remember reading somewhere that Abyssinians had large litters, and suffered a dismaying vision of the apartment overrun with a dozen kittens.

They all surrounded him, the family circle, Theresa and George as solemn as if they were watching the cat have kittens, and Cousin Emma running back and forth with a kettle of hot water which she poured steaming into a white enamelled pan.

The only recorded description of an active jaguar den with breeding adults and kittens in the U. S. was in the Tehachapi Mountains of California prior to 1860.

Italian stop motion films include Quaq Quao ( 1978 ), by Francesco Misseri, which was stop motion with origami, The Red and the Blue and the clay animation kittens Mio and Mao.

Dinah, Alice's cat, also makes a return – this time with her two kittens ; Kitty ( the black one ) and Snowdrop ( the white one ).

However, she did get along with Lieutenant Reginald Barclay, so when Data had to leave on a mission at the same time Spot's kittens were due, he persuaded Barclay to take care of her (" Genesis ").

They make a special room for her, filled with all the things she loves best: her kittens, piano, father's books, Amy's sketches, and her beloved dolls.

One of the wild tribes of the Malay Peninsula has domesticated cats, and I have seen the woman suckling bengalensis kittens, but I do not know whether the latter survive and breed with the others!

Desexed cats and kittens fit in easily with all sorts of cats and dogs.

Regardless of breed, any cat with solid gray coloration has two pairs of double-recessive genes for the non-agouti and color-dilution traits, and so an exclusive mating between two solid gray cats should always produce solid gray kittens.

Together with a few naked kittens found later it founded the first attempt to create a hairless breed.

The lack of hair can cause health issues with kittens in the first weeks of life due to susceptibility to respiratory infections.

As they reach three to four weeks old, the kittens are gradually weaned and begin to eat solid food, with weaning usually complete by six to eight weeks.

Play with other kittens peaks in the third or fourth month after birth, with more solitary hunting and stalking play peaking later, at about five months.

Although domestic kittens are commonly sent to new homes at six to eight weeks of age, it has been suggested that being with its mother and litter mates from six to twelve weeks is important for a kitten's social and behavioural development.

American Curl kittens are born with straight ears, which begin to curl within ten days.

Consequently, a woman who wanted children sometimes wore an amulet showing the goddess with kittens, the number of which indicated her own desired number of children.

Because only heterozygous munchkin cats are able to pass on the gene, all litters with at least one munchkin parent have the possibility of containing kittens with the phenotypes: short-legged or normal-legged ( referred to as non-standard munchkin ), with the genotypes of Mm or mm, where M is the trait for short legs and m is the trait for long legs.