scared cat sudden change scared of her own baby cat

Question
hello
could you please advice me about a strange behaviour of my (almost one and half year old) cat.after giving birth to three kittens(one female and 2 mails) .after 2 1/2 monthes of having her babies she developped an agressive behaviour towards her little 2 month old  female baby ,first she started  rejecting her then  she is now afraid of her own baby kitten she runs away from her own kitten and from me when I try to call her for food..please let me know if you have an answer
thank you
hesham
ARGENTINA


Answer
Hesahm,

Although this is not usual behavior, it is not unheard of.  For a variety of reasons, feral cats in colonies will develop a "fear" or more aggressive manner towards kittens out of a male who is no longer the dominant male in the territory.

Outside of this, I would not even hazard a guess as to what may be going on.

One other note, sometimes, we tend to ascribe human emotions and motives to how cats inter-relate. Cats are not people and they do not think like we do.  So, if it were me and I wanted to keep the baby, I would ignore any behavior between the two of them and let them sort it out.  Any human intervention in this situation would be counter productive.

Best regards... Norm.