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Why would keeping a Queen cat as pregnant as much as possible be a bad thing to do?
I tried some google searches on this and really couldn't find any concrete answers.
I've read where many people agree that a cat should not have more than 2 litters per year and a few people said 3 is ok, but most said no more than 2.
So I am trying to understand if it's possible for a cat to have 4 or 5 litters per year, then what would make that a bad thing to do?
Are people saying litters should be limited to only 2 per year due to the overall population problem of cats?
Or are we talking about the quality of the Queens life? And in that case, if having 4 or 5 litters per year is some how bad for a cats quality of life , how so, in what ways? I mean in the wild left to their own devices wouldn't cats just breed as often as they possibly could anyways?
And lastly, if people think a cat that just spends the majority of it's life basically as a kitten factory born to just produce as many kittens as possible in it's life, (again, isn't this what it would do in the wild if there was no human intervention?) aren't we anthropomorphizing the cats with human feelings that cats in reality don't possess? Sure in our human world a human made to just stay pregnant and produce as many babies as possible, that would be a cruel horrible thing, because one, we were not designed to do that, and two which is more important, we are humans, not cats.
I really have no idea... which is why I am posting this. This is my main question, which led me to join the forum, but once this question is answered, I have dozens more questions as well about cats. Thanks for any information or thoughts on this subject.
I tried some google searches on this and really couldn't find any concrete answers.
I've read where many people agree that a cat should not have more than 2 litters per year and a few people said 3 is ok, but most said no more than 2.
So I am trying to understand if it's possible for a cat to have 4 or 5 litters per year, then what would make that a bad thing to do?
Are people saying litters should be limited to only 2 per year due to the overall population problem of cats?
Or are we talking about the quality of the Queens life? And in that case, if having 4 or 5 litters per year is some how bad for a cats quality of life , how so, in what ways? I mean in the wild left to their own devices wouldn't cats just breed as often as they possibly could anyways?
And lastly, if people think a cat that just spends the majority of it's life basically as a kitten factory born to just produce as many kittens as possible in it's life, (again, isn't this what it would do in the wild if there was no human intervention?) aren't we anthropomorphizing the cats with human feelings that cats in reality don't possess? Sure in our human world a human made to just stay pregnant and produce as many babies as possible, that would be a cruel horrible thing, because one, we were not designed to do that, and two which is more important, we are humans, not cats.
I really have no idea... which is why I am posting this. This is my main question, which led me to join the forum, but once this question is answered, I have dozens more questions as well about cats. Thanks for any information or thoughts on this subject.