What you've stumbled into there is the kitten not knowing any better and the mother mewing back in the only way her child knows, saying “shush dear, you'll make the humans suspicious.“
Don't let the cats know that you know, basically.
Don't let the cats know that you know, basically.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'