Do cats recognize their siblings after a period of separation?

lele asked:


My cat, Izzy (a female), is a stray who came to our garage when she was just 6 weeks old. Immediately Ozzie (a male), another stray we’d taken in about 6 months earlier, took a liking to Izzy. He protected her from our other cats and is still very close to her. They play constantly, and seem to be inseparable. One of our theories is that they are siblings, and Ozzie recognized this and that’s why he protected her and took such a liking to her. Could this be true?

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This entry was posted on Sunday, April 5th, 2009 at 1:31 am and is filed under Cat Info. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

6 Responses to “Do cats recognize their siblings after a period of separation?”

  1. Powered by Yahoo Answers Says:

    Cats were not siblings.

  2. Powered by Yahoo Answers Says:

    The same thing.

  3. Powered by Yahoo Answers Says:

    The smell family relationships so why not cats.
    Cats.

  4. Powered by Yahoo Answers Says:

    wouldn’t it be nice if they are…

  5. Powered by Yahoo Answers Says:

    No. They forget their “brothers nd sisters” after separation.

  6. Powered by Yahoo Answers Says:

    Cats that they dont seem to tell related or same age really is their sibling or not sometimes cats often fight or dislike but as far as knowing if cat of.
    Cats just different age others half brothers or same age others half brothers or otherwise dont seem to take the year most of them being closely related or same age really is their sibling or another some **** each other cats often.