Owner of Two Neutered Male Cats Demands Explanation After Kittens Turn Up
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An owner with two male, neutered cats was left speechless when new kittens showed up in her house.
Cat owner Amy, who is known on TikTok as @amys_vlog777, shared her confusion in a May 5 video, which amassed over 12.2 million views as of Wednesday. She discovered kittens inside her home. It didn't add up since her two cats are both male and neutered. The incident left her wondering whether "cats multiply by mitosis."
With no female cat in the family, she couldn't understand where these two tiny kittens came from. One looked like the two males, all black and the other one was an orange feline. The orange one stayed put in the corner, but the black kitty seemed a bit more adventurous, walking around and exploring the home.
Meanwhile, both cats looked up at Amy with eyes wide open. Their meows confirmed they did not have an explanation for the kitties either.
Newsweek reached out to @amys_vlog777 via TikTok for additional information.
With over 2 million likes and 22,100 comments on TikTok, viewers were just as stumped as Amy. But a few people offered some explanations in the comment section.
"They used a surrogate," joked a viewer, while a second wrote: "It's mitosis, when too many hairballs get stuck together, a kitten is formed.
A third person said: "The cat distribution system gave them kittens."
Another added: "Dads that stepped up. Congrats on your growing family!"
However, Amy shared in a follow-up video that the mystery had been solved, and it wasn't what the viewers theorized.
She learned that her neighbor owned an unspayed female cat. This cat ended up having kittens, which Amy was not aware of. Her neighbor said the young kittens were about four weeks old at the time.
Once Amy realized they belonged to her neighbor, she took them back, but the adventurous young felines kept coming back a few times.
She said in the clip: "Apparently, they were walking over there themselves. I actually watched them walk over one time. I'm not sure if they were following my cats or following the mother cat..."
The final update she gave about the kittens was that her neighbor found homes for all the kittens and the mother.
Two little kittens outside in grass.
Two little kittens outside in grass.
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