Traditionally tom cats are reputed to abandon the female and kittens once they have mated; but I recently saw this picture from a book about cats where a Siamese tom was staying with a female and two kittens, and from his stance was actually guarding them like a lion would.
then a friend of mine whose cat fathered some kittens kept the oldest male kitten and the tom cat..
They live together fairly peacefully (they do “fight” but it is more like like a dad teaching his son boxing by sparring with him), plus the tom goes and regularly visits the female and the rest of the kittens who live nearby;
once when he thought they were being moved out of the area (she was only moving to another block down the street) and he attacked everyone trying to hold the cat box the female and kittens were being transported in and even chased a bull terrier into the stair well (the unfortunate dog was merely in the wrong place at the wrong time!)
I also so saw a pic of missMusheds daughter and their male pet cat, who was also adoting the same “guarding” stance with the human baby.
The yesterday I was looking at a site about Bengal cats (hybrids of an Asian Leopard Cat and a Siamese) and it mentioned how one of the stud toms helps look after and teach all the kittens he has fathered…
Anyone else seen cats like this?
