Will One Cat Look After Another Cat’s Newborn Kittens?

Yes, in fact with most mammals, there are cases where one female (usually one who has recently given birth herself) will willingly adopt the offspring of another,feeding and caring for it exactly like her own.

Cats can make particularly good foster parents, where the birth mother has died, is unable to feed her young or, as sometimes happens, abandons or rejects them. In fact, if you find yourself having to care for an orphaned kitten, especially one a week old or younger, the best thing you can do is try to find another cat to care for it.

Professional cat breeders and cat fanciers often arrange fro a foster mother to be handy when their prized pedigree animal is about to give birth, so that she can take over if anything goes wrong. As long as the two females (or queens) give birth at roughly the same time, they will normally take on each other's families quite willingly.

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A good way to MAKE them adopt the newborns is to make them smell alike.. This you can do by bathing them in the same tub without changing the water. It should be plain lukewarm water...no soap or anything.

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Yes but only if the latter also has kittens

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Well yes most cats are females.

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