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What age to get a kitten?
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What's the acceptable age of a kitten to go to a new home these days? It always used to be 8 weeks and some years ago when I bred and showed pedigrees 12 weeks was the acceptable age to sell them on.
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Our Max was probably between five and six weeks old when we got him - but he had been found abandoned and the local cat rescue people knew we were on the look out for another kitten and that we had a lot of experience handling kittens that they offered him to us - he's four now and a very handsome cat indeed, and a bit of a clever clogs to boot! Our cats however are not pedigrees just (un)common moggies but I would certainly not give a kitten under at least six weeks a home unless under similar circumstances to Max
Prudie,
Celia Hammond's charity are still trying to home soft left behind Spring born kittens before the Autumn babies come along.
http://www.celiahammond.org/
Celia Hammond's charity are still trying to home soft left behind Spring born kittens before the Autumn babies come along.
http://www.celiahammond.org/
All the kittens we've had over the years have been around 8 weeks old, although the little girl we presently have - now 8 years old - whom we got via Cat's Protection, was quite poorly early on, had severe 'runs', and even our dear old female doggie was helping to lick her little bum - yeugh! - to try and help her.
We also took her to the vet but the condition gradually righted itself, and now she's a proverbial barrel on legs, whereas the little ginger tom we got at the same time has maintained his 'figure'.
The dirt trays are never that pleasant - understatement - but a little moggie will adapt to it very quickly - it's most unusual to have a 'dirty' cat, but it will have helped if it had its mum in its formative weeks to teach it how to groom itself etc.
After all, they're only babies, aren't they?
Good luck, anyway, Prudie. Hope you have many years of pleasure and love - on its terms - from whatever moggie you get?
We also took her to the vet but the condition gradually righted itself, and now she's a proverbial barrel on legs, whereas the little ginger tom we got at the same time has maintained his 'figure'.
The dirt trays are never that pleasant - understatement - but a little moggie will adapt to it very quickly - it's most unusual to have a 'dirty' cat, but it will have helped if it had its mum in its formative weeks to teach it how to groom itself etc.
After all, they're only babies, aren't they?
Good luck, anyway, Prudie. Hope you have many years of pleasure and love - on its terms - from whatever moggie you get?
They're all beautiful.
http://www.catseeker.com/
http://www.catseeker.com/
It's certainly a joyous time getting one of those little minxes, and ladybirder's absolutely spot on, you could go along with certain wishes and wants, but you might end up coming away with something totally different altogether?
The worst thing you can do is catch their gaze - that's you on the slippery slope....hook, line and sinker!
The worst thing you can do is catch their gaze - that's you on the slippery slope....hook, line and sinker!
