Does the kitten know its mother when she grows up?

When the kitten grows up, the mother cat doesn't know.

When the kitten grows up, it is difficult to identify the mother cat. If the kitten doesn't live on the mother cat all the time, its smell will change, which is unfamiliar to the mother cat and therefore can't be recognized.

Generally, full-term kittens will be separated from the mother cat to another environment, and the smell of kittens will change, making it impossible for the mother cat to distinguish. Cats recognize objects, even their babies, not by the appearance they see, but by their sense of smell. If the taste is unfamiliar, it can't judge whether the baby who left her is her own.

Cats have a very keen sense of smell. If the kitten didn't grow up with the mother cat, it would be difficult for the mother cat to recognize her children after she left.

A kitten may forget her mother in a week or so after leaving her mother. The cat's own memory is not long, and it depends on its taste to judge whether it is a familiar person or environment. If the kitten leaves the mother cat, its smell will be disturbed by the smell of other environments.

The next time I meet a female cat, the female cat will not recognize the kitten because of the change of taste, and may attack the kitten, and the kitten will attack the female cat because of the change of taste.

Especially kittens about three months old are very curious about the environment, which is an important period to start socialization. At this time, if the kitten leaves the mother cat and goes to a new environment, it may forget the mother cat for two to three days, but if she lives with the mother cat, she will gradually get close.