Kitten question! - Paw Talk

candyraver · #1 10-25-2006, 01:40 AM

We have 2 cats currently in the house.
Candy (around 14 yrs old) & Tiny (moms cat,i think around 5)
Candy is not a "hunter", my mom's cat is.Both cats live upstairs.
I have a basement apartment (as mentioned elsewhere before).
My question: if I were to get a kitten & raise it around my mice & my parakeet, will it learn not to harm them? Or should I avoid getting my own kitty altogether?

candyraver · #2 10-25-2006, 02:34 AM

.....anyone? Feedback on kittens living in the same apartment with mice &/ or birds?

maria · #3 10-25-2006, 10:47 AM

yes your new kitten will learn not too go for your mice and parakeet as you can teach him or her not too and your kitten would grow up too be around them..... best of luck

candyraver · #4 10-25-2006, 12:01 PM

Thanks!!

That is good to know

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maria · #5 10-25-2006, 12:41 PM

your welcome if there's any think else i can help with i be glad too help

Vanilla_Rat · #6 10-26-2006, 07:44 PM

Yep...it can be done.If you raise the kitten up with the rats and bird,she will learn they are not food.

A women I knew way back when raised her cats up with the rats and the cats and rats often hung out in the same room (supervised of course) and the cats never bothered the rats! Also Kjaerstin had two cats and plus the rats,mice,fish,turtle,snakes,bunnies,ferrets,gecko s and a bird and the cats could care less about any of the other animals...they did go after crickets tho,when there were some escapees!

Carissa · #7 10-26-2006, 07:49 PM

I have a picture someone, Will post it when i find it of my cat, mouse and rat all sleeping together, my cats would go in my mouse cage and play with my mice, but not hurt them. It was cute, Ill look for the pic!

candyraver · #8 10-27-2006, 01:12 AM

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Originally Posted by Carissa


	I have a picture someone, Will post it when i find it of my cat, mouse and rat all sleeping together, my cats would go in my mouse cage and play with my mice, but not hurt them. It was cute, Ill look for the pic!

I would love to see that pic!!

candyraver · #9 10-27-2006, 01:15 AM

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Originally Posted by Vanilla_Rat


	Yep...it can be done.If you raise the kitten up with the rats and bird,she will learn they are not food. A women I knew way back when raised her cats up with the rats and the cats and rats often hung out in the same room (supervised of course) and the cats never bothered the rats! Also Kjaerstin had two cats and plus the rats,mice,fish,turtle,snakes,bunnies,ferrets,gecko s and a bird and the cats could care less about any of the other animals...they did go after crickets tho,when there were some escapees!

Poor crickets LOL They must lead a hard life!! hehe

Great,I'm excited to be getting my OWN kitty again & i'm so happy that I can train her not to harm my other pets!!

sara8 · #10 10-27-2006, 09:24 PM

mine were not raised as kittens with our birds but they do fine with them as long as the birds are in their cage. i don't think i would trust a cat around mice or birds outside of the cage. i think instinct just kicks in. our birds got out once and thank goodness they could fly cause my cat would have got them. he was jumping like 3 or 4 feet in the air from the floor trying to get them. he is my most laid back and he was a different kitty trying to get them.jmo

petpredicaments · #11 10-28-2006, 12:23 PM

yes it generally works best when they grow up together

GeishaGirl · #12 10-28-2006, 03:24 PM

From my experience a kitten will adapt to seeing mice and a bird, the kitten most likely will just ignore them But also I would not let a kitten be with the mice, Gabe was raised around mice but has killed a few mice from the old house 118 Military. SO I would not completely trust a cat with a mouse as cats love to chase small, fuzzy things to play with, even thou they may not have the intent to kill it, but just playing can seriously injure or kill a mouse. Like a mouse I had that survived.

I called him Twitch after cause Gabe knocked over their cage and one escaped. I got mad at him and told him "If I don't find him, your in a lot of trouble mister!" a empty threat of course. The next morning I seen Gabe playing with something, and picked it up, and to my surprise there was the mouse. Gabe was bringing him over to me by his tail...LOL!!

SO cute, anyway he was never the same since then and had a twitch when he walked or moved, nothing bad but looked like he had been dancing at times. He lived a long time also. I thought he would die sooner with the disability but he lived past many of his siblings.

Vanilla_Rat · #13 10-30-2006, 10:23 AM

Animals are weird tho...I seen on an animal show on "Animal Planet" once about a cat and a mouse who bonded and the cat would not harm the mouse at all and the mouse wasn't afraid...it was cute.

I would never trust a cat alone with ANY small animal anyway.Even if they were raised up and got along perfectly with a rat or a bird or whatever,I would always supervise them!