The kitten socialization period is 2 to 7 weeks of age, sometimes continuing to 10 weeks of age. Educate owners on all aspects of kitten development, pet care, and living with a cat in the family.Identify problem behaviors while providing up-to-date, humane, and scientific advice.Teach kittens to accept handling procedures.
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Teach owners how to interact and play with their kittens.Educate owners about normal feline behavior.
Accompanying unwanted behaviors include eliminating outside the litter box (not the good kind of thinking outside the box), aggression, and scratching.īut what if when they were kittens, we could get them started off on the right paw? What if each kitten came with a “how-to” manual? Would this help us see fewer behavioral concerns in the future while also keeping these feline family members in our homes long term? The answer is yes! School Days Adorbs, right? Adding a kitten to your family is easy in this charming, playful, and easy-care stage.Īlas, within a few months, cute kittens become adolescents, with the potential for behavioral issues caused by stress, anxiety, and arousal. Those tiny paw pads, curious eyes, and that wiggly body practicing “big cat” pounces. Nothing is sweeter than an 8-week-old kitten. I had made nests in the bottom of each closet the week before just for this eventuality and felt a keen stab of satisfaction at my foresight.By Rachel Lees, RVT Reading Time: 3 minutes I could hear her purring though, it was as loud as a motorboat, and finally figured out that she had ensconced herself in one of my closets. She literally ran down the hall and, by the time I caught up with her, I could not find her anywhere. As I let the dog out, Mellie slipped in the back door, without so much as a hello, and made a beeline for my bedroom. I say this because, two nights ago, I got up very early to let my Pyr outside so she could patrol the perimeter of the yard and protect it from all the evil songbirds who inhabit it. But I guess that, somewhere along the way, she passed on her tips to the cat population of the world. I had Emma fixed soon after and she lived for 17 more happy years. She went on to have four more and all were happily adopted out. Many decades ago, my cat Emma delivered her first kitten on my stomach as I slept. Every time I tried, I came away with battle scars.įortunately, this was not my first cat rodeo. But neither one of them would let me pick them up, much less bundle them up in a carrier and take them to the vet for neutering. She even, eventually, learned to sit in my lap outdoors and accept my endless adoration. Mellie turned out to be more trusting and would let me pet her for as long as I wanted. Bobo deigns to let me scratch the base of his tail or behind his ears and will occasionally roll over and let me scratch his stomach. They are the only two of the many feral cats clogging my woods that have ever let me touch them. I named the black one Bobo and the little calico Mellie, short for Melancholia because she has a tiny orange tear under each eye. Two of the kittens decided to stay at my house, where the fish are jumpin’ and the livin’ is easy. The gray one disappeared (I’m telling myself it’s because someone adopted it) and the orange tabby clearly conned several households into adopting him because every time he reappears at my house, he’s as twice as big as the time before. However, I was mostly unsuccessful in my attempts to turn them into house cats. They, at least, let me get close enough to offer them food and water. She’s made it plain she would just as soon take my face off as let me pet her.
Over the past year, mostly just because I could, I mounted a campaign to try to domesticate these feral kittens.
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