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All The Stages Of A Cat’s Life
It was huge it was long it was unwieldy and we said you know enough let’s just go back and break it up because there’s so much to talk about when it comes to cats and how they develop when you take a look at how cats mature both physically and behaviorally you start to understand that the cat that i call the raw cat the ancestral cat is very much alive in our cats the stage of a cat’s life where that is most apparent is kittenhood and that’s what we’re going to be talking about today we’re going to talk about kittenhood that first year let’s say now i’m going to say this right off the bat that all the timelines i’m giving you unless of course i’m talking about physical facts are a little malleable they can vary a little bit based on the cat’s experience do they have their mom and their odd cat breeds in USA
How many humans did they come in contact with that kind of thing that affects :
Their behavioral growth definitely one way or another when you think about what kittens go through in the first i mean obviously the first year is critical but we’re talking about the first couple of months crazy how they just form into that perfect hunter and so i’m going to take you through that right now and where are we gonna start zero days i was just born i am a kitten and as such i can’t hear i can’t see i can’t walk i got no teeth i am completely dependent on my mom now not only are they blind and deaf but they have no way of regulating their own body temperature they are reliant on mom for everything including staying warm staying alive just by huddling up against mom they can’t even really eliminate on their own they rely on mom to feed and then mom will stimulate them to go by cleaning them by about 10 days 9 to 13 days somewhere in there their eyes start to open okay well everything’s fuzzy but whatever the ear canals start to open i’m hearing things i don’t know what they are man by about three weeks the ears are open they’re hearing things eyes open they are seeing things they are also beginning to get mobile they’re starting to get around you know okay i know what these are for these feet that i can get away from mom a little bit even though i’m completely still dependent on them they are starting to take in the world around them so we are a hundred percent dependent on mom so now this is where the real fun starts here because the number that i’ve always used is between two and nine weeks is what we call the critical phase of social development odd cat breeds in USA
Two To Nine Weeks :
Man does a lot happen by the time we’re at about five weeks ears eyes functioning walking around everything is cool exploring they can also start to write themselves so if they fall they know how to get back up they can start avoiding obstacles their teeth are coming in by about four weeks we can start introducing solid foods to them they can start moving away from mom a little bit we can start giving them cat food and what we are doing folks is we are petting them we are getting them very used to humans we are exposing them to different looks and different fields different sizes of humans whatever we can this is the time to do it the time to imprint humans on cats is right here at this moment in their development the experience they have here with humans in this first nine to ten weeks it says a lot about the quality of their experience with humans going forward because really if we don’t do it not saying that anything’s impossible just makes it harder for them to adapt after this critical phase so anyway i’m getting ahead of myself because these cats kittens are watching mom they’re starting to mimic her behavior mom is starting to teach odd cat breeds in USA
Little Kitten :
Starting to see the fundamentals of hunt behavior remember play equals prey in cats now their claws are able to retract and come back out again they’re learning how to inhibit the bites they’re learning how to inhibit their claws at some point they’re going to go up to either mom or one of their siblings hit him a little too hard with the claw and they’re going to just get someone else riled up they’re going to whap him upside the head and okay i just learned a lesson it’s play but it’s prey it’s it’s the thing that teaches them to be the raw cat we’re only five weeks old four to five weeks old and we are now finding a little measure of independence from mom we’re watching mom all the time we’re watching our siblings and interacting with them and learning what it is to be a cat cat by about six weeks by the time that they’re pretty much fully weaned from mom and really seeking independence and playing a lot more with with their litter mates and establishing just a little bit of sleeping pattern so they’re not just sleeping all the time these guys need to play and they need to hunt which is where you come in because now we start presenting them with hunting toys i don’t care if it’s a little squeaky mouse i don’t care if it’s a you know one of those little plastic balls or crinkles or an interactive toy like a fishing pole toy that you know i love none of that gets ever left out for these guys we have play sessions we pick them up you know so i’m just making sure i mention that but allowing them to hunt something that’s not either their litter mates their mom because she’s sick of it by now or just a piece of fluff on the ground we give them a target we let them start knowing what it feels like to to stalk to pounce to tackle to quote eat you know we can get them into that that feeling of hunt catch kill eat groom sleep this critical phase of social development is critical you know in this vein of of when you think about how much like a little kitten shaped rocket odd cat breeds in USA ship odd cat breeds in USA
