Monthly Archives: April 2019
Stages of growth and development of a kitten
On the way to growing up the kitten is waiting for a lot of events. Let’s analyze in stages the most significant of them.
1 month
Kittens are born deaf and blind, but have a good enough sense of smell to easily find the source of mother’s milk. Continue reading
Kitten weaning from mother
Excommunication from the mother is the transfer of the kitten to independent feeding and adaptation to life without a mother cat. The most favorable for this is the age of 10–12 weeks. By this time, the kitten can already do without mother’s milk, goes to the cat’s tray and licks itself, and its psyche is stable enough to move to a new place without harm. Continue reading
How to choose food for a kitten?
Proper nutrition is the basis of a pet’s health, so it’s important to take a responsible approach to deciding how to feed a kitten.
From the first days of life and, as a rule, up to 4-6 weeks the kitten eats mother’s milk. The milk produced by a cat in the first days of a kitten’s life is called colostrum and contains a large amount of antibodies. Continue reading
