(I looked and I'm still not sure so if this isn't the right place to post this please lmk!)
I took in a cat several years ago (or rather, convinced my mom to take her in. I was 12, am 20 now.) after her crying babies helped me find her under my trailer. To condense this unpleasant story, they didn't make it, my mom never took the cat (Cali) to the vet, she got pregnant again and lost that litter too, then became an indoor cat. Mom still didn't take her to the vet til I moved out, my girlfriend paid for the visit, and I reminded her every day for a month.
Ever since she lost her babies in my care (ik I was a kid but it feels like I failed them), I've wondered if she still thinks about them, still misses them, if she'd like to have a baby to take care of. For years I've wondered about fostering another kitten or young cat to see if she'd take to them, I just haven't had the means. In high school, I briefly introduced her to a stray kitten and she seemed very interested and docile, the kitten was the aggressive one. Now, I'm on a steady path to being able to move her in AND have the ability to care for another cat, so I want opinions...
TLDR; I know hormones produced after birth and during lactation are typically what make other cats accept newborn kittens into their litters, but that's definitely not the case here. My cat is fixed now (though she still acts like she's in heat from time to time) and hasn't seen another cat or kitten in at least 5 years. Do you guys think my cat will respond well to a new kitten, do you think she'll treat them like her own?
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