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Kitten Development Stages – Pet Tip 249
When we bring a kitten home for the first time to adopt it as a pet, it should be between nine and twelve weeks old. This is so the kitten has a chance to spend time with its mother and so that the kitten becomes socialized with its littermates and learns proper kitten behaviour. But what happens before the kitten comes home? This article will outline some of the important milestones in kittenhood in an effort to familiarize you with some of the stages of kitten development.
Kittens are born blind and deaf and they remain that way for around the first fourteen days of their lives. They use their sense of smell to find their way toward their mothers for nourishment and heat. They really need to stay close to their mothers for these first few weeks as they are unable to regulate their own body temperature. The umbilical cord typically falls off after the first few days of life.
- Owner:
- Hilary & Justin Dechert Ayres Ferland
- City:
- Edmonton
- Province, Country:
- AB, Canada
- Type/Breed:
- DSH Black
- Date of Birth:
- November 2003
- Sex:
- Male
- Height:
- Not Provided
- Weight:
- 10
- Coat Colour:
- Black as can be!
- Eye Colour:
- One eye blue one eye green both with yellow trim
I am an attention whore. I LOVE to be pet and played with. When I'm not getting the attention I want I will make up ways to play by myself. My favorite these days is to chase my tail. I have caught it on occasion and from what my first mommy says I look pretty confused when I do! My first mommy, Hilary, and my daddy, Puff, were the ones to rescue me from the adoption center at Petsmart. My adoptive mommy saw me and fell in love with my so much that she called my auntie, Megan, at work to say: "We're getting a kitty." My daddy is allergic to me and therefore I'm ban from playing in his and Hilly's room; which is fine, it's a big mess and I'd get lost. In fact I did once! I got into their room ((hehehe)) and got lost in the closet behind the boxes in there. But when Daddy went away one weekend mommy snuck me in there and I got to sleep with her! She kept kicking me though so I think I'll stick to the couch.
My all time favorite spot is now a toss up between the top of the round chair in the livingroom and the couch with all of mommy's blankets and my new founds space under the stairs. I go there when daddy scares me or they threaten to take me outside.
*Yawn* Well that's all from the kitty front. Back to under the blankets for this cold kitty!
