Cats mainly rely on their sense of smell to identify their children. Cats can only identify their children visually if the kitten is always by their side. Otherwise, they basically cannot identify their children.

I believe many parents have experienced their own mother cat giving birth to a child. After the child is born, the mother cat will lick the kitten until it is completely licked clean. At this time, the kitten is already familiar to the mother cat. Smell, the cat only needs to smell it to know whether it is its own child. When you take the kitten away and put it back, the mother cat usually smells it first to confirm whether it is a familiar smell before feeding, so the mother cat They rely on their sense of smell to identify their children! When it comes to sense of smell, cats have three times the sense of smell of humans. They can distinguish about 20,000 kinds of smells. Cats have special folds in their noses, and these folds have hundreds of millions of olfactory cells. This is the secret of why it can distinguish so many smells!

A cat’s vision can only distinguish children when they are always around them, because cats’ vision is worse than that of humans, and they can basically only see clearly what is in front of them. Stationary things cannot be seen clearly if they are a little far away. If the kitten is not by her side for a period of time, the mother cat will quickly forget what the kitten looks like! Therefore, cats mainly rely on their sense of smell to distinguish their babies!