We were looking at townhouses and saw some kittens in a back yard at one house. The family there said the mother cat brought the kittens into their yard for safety, but she had gotten killed in the road shortly after they were weaned. They also told us she was already pregnant again. WHen I picked one of them up, my fiancee’ noticed that the kittens were full of fleas, and had distended bellys, so she knew they had worms too, both of which would likely kill them eventually if not treated. The people said they didn’t want to do anything for them other than put food out, and didn’t want them, so we put them in our car.

When we drove back to the real estate agent’s office, we were inside and had left the windows cracked. We saw a cat on top of the car, so we went out and rolled up the front windows but left the the back windows open just six inches. Someone told us there were a couple of unneutered male cats who probably belonged to people in the townhouses next to their office. They said they could see that they were unneutered, but they said they also knew they weren’t neutered because they spray everything from their tires to the walls of the building.

After about 10 minutes inside, we went back outside to go home, and saw the same cat jumping out of the back window of our car. We heard a small sound like a dove cooing coming from the car. One of the kittens was in the dash shaking violently and had pooped all over itself. When my fiancee’ opened the back door, she screamed, “Oh my god!” The cooing sound was a kitten laying in the back gasping for life with blood gushing from his neck.

We rushed to the nearest emergency vet, but it was too late.

Three weeks ago, we saw a show on tv where a lioness and her cubs were being followed for a documentary. A male lion discovered them and despite her efforts to stop him, he killed all of her cubs.
We had two male cats at home when I was growing up, and they had seen kittens before twice when my sister brought home abandoned litters, but our cats were neutered. Why would a domestic cat do this? Are hormones in unneutered cats that strong that they cause them to murder kittens? What would the purpose be?

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