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Cats Kittens Articles
- Tips For Litter Training Kittens
Litter training kittens takes time and patience. In most cases, the mother cat handles this aspect of kitten care and training, but if the mother cat dies or abandons her litter, human involvement becomes necessary.
- Territorial and Spraying Behavior in Cats
It isn't unusual for a cat to develop spraying behavior when a new cat is added to the household, even a new kitten. Decreasing the number of cats is sometimes, but not always, helpful. Usually cat owners aren't too enthusiastic about this option, though.
- Preparing Your Home for a New Kitten
Bringing home a new kitten is an exciting time, but it requires a large amount of preparation, especially if you already have cats in your house.
- Newborn Kitten Bottle Feeding
Kitten bottle feeding can be critical to the survival of a newborn kitten, especially if you can't find a nursing cat. Bottle feeding kittens isn't very difficult, but you'll have to devote ten to twenty minutes to it several times a day.
- Natural Kitten Formula Substitutes
Store bought kitten formula is the second best thing to a mother cat's milk. However, in some areas, finding formula powder for newborn cats seems impossible.
- Kitten Training Tips for Beginners
Kitten training is possible if you set reasonable goals and approach training and kitten care with consistency and knowledge. The primary goals for training should include litter training kittens and training them to use a scratching post.
- Kitten Stuff
I guess I wouldn't want to say this was normal behavior, but it is reasonably common behavior. I do not know of a treatment that works really well for this. If she is not causing physical damage to herself, it may be best to wait and see if she outgrows this problem.
- How to Care for a Kitten During the First 3 Weeks
A kitten needs to be with his mother for the first 8 weeks of his life, however if this is not possible, you need to be the surrogate mother. Learn how to care for a kitten during the first 3 weeks.
- Hand Rearing a Cat or Kitten
Sometimes a young cat needs hand rearing. Kittens are utterly helpless, blind and deaf; they depend on their mothers for everything.
- Feral Cats
If you catch the kittens the best idea might be to neuter or spay them and then let them out again. This might keep the population stable since they will occupy the territory without reproducing. This approach doesn't always work but it can be helpful in some cases.
- Feline Reproduction - Pregnancy
There are some things that might help people who find themselves aiding a cat who is having difficulty delivering kittens. The first thing is to know where the closest emergency veterinary clinic is and to have their phone number handy, in case the delivery occurs when the cats usual veterinarian is not available.
- Chewing and Licking Behavior in Cats
If your cats chews on things like electric cords it could be dangerous. For specific problems like this aversive agents like bitter apple might work. For more generalized pica there are a lot of theories. Increased dietary fiber helps some cats. Other respond to access to greens (grass, green beans, sprouts, etc).
- Cat-Proofing Your Home For Newborn Kittens
Newborn kittens are totally dependent on the mother cat until about 6 weeks of age. After 12 to 15 weeks of age, kittens are ready to separate from their mothers.
- Cat Photo Archive
Pictures of some of the Cats that we've known here at VetInfo.com
- Best Foods for Your Nursing Cat
A nursing cat requires high quality nutrition in order to provide the healthiest milk to kittens. Maternal antibodies and nutrition is passed on to kittens in their first 24 hours of life so owners should provide healthy and nutritious foods to nursing cats and in the final stages of pregnancy.
- Behavior - Aggression in Cats
Ankle biting and sudden attacks are most often associated with predatory aggression. Cats have a strong natural desire to hunt. Inside the house, there isn't much to satisfy this desire. Mice, grasshoppers and other attractive prey are scarce indoors, so they have to make do with what they have --- ankles and other moving body parts of their human companions.
- A Guide To Kitten Care
Getting a new kitten is an exciting idea but potential cat owners must be ready for the care and responsibility required when raising a kitten.
- 8 Tips For Successfully Weaning Kittens
Weaning kittens requires patience and determination. Having only known mother's milk since they have been born, solid food will be quite different to them.
- 6 Common Mistakes When Potty Training Kittens
There are a whole host of mistakes one can make while potty training kittens. Raising kittens is not an easy task, especially if the kitten was not given the opportunity to learn from his mother.
- 4 Stages of Kitten Development
Kitten development is a process that occurs in the first six to 18 months of a cat's life. There are four main stages, each with its own unique characteristics.
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