Kitten Is Learning Cuteness
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Why yes, I do have some more ridiculously cute kitten pictures. We estimate the kitten is now about 4 weeks old. His new trick is squatting and peeing if we hold him in place in his litter box. I have hopes that he will ever be house-trained. Alas, this only works for pee. His claws are very clawlike; I have to wear a gardening glove while I wipe him to keep him from shredding my hand with his rear claws. He's eating between 18 and (rarely) 30 mls a feeding. I've started him on sometimes having a little wet kitten food mixed with formula, but he's not very good at it and he's not very interested in it yet. Though he definitely has teeth now. He's not much for playing yet, though he sometimes gets a bit feisty, and he has his own toys for chewing or batting when we try to play with him. He can recognize us from close range and he's starting to look at us if we're across the room, though whether he knows what the movement is is debatable. He has a very carrying voice, especially in the mornings when he decides it's time for him to be taken out of his box and fed.
(Doing his Palpatine impression.)
Why yes, I do have some more ridiculously cute kitten pictures. We estimate the kitten is now about 4 weeks old. His new trick is squatting and peeing if we hold him in place in his litter box. I have hopes that he will ever be house-trained. Alas, this only works for pee. His claws are very clawlike; I have to wear a gardening glove while I wipe him to keep him from shredding my hand with his rear claws. He's eating between 18 and (rarely) 30 mls a feeding. I've started him on sometimes having a little wet kitten food mixed with formula, but he's not very good at it and he's not very interested in it yet. Though he definitely has teeth now. He's not much for playing yet, though he sometimes gets a bit feisty, and he has his own toys for chewing or batting when we try to play with him. He can recognize us from close range and he's starting to look at us if we're across the room, though whether he knows what the movement is is debatable. He has a very carrying voice, especially in the mornings when he decides it's time for him to be taken out of his box and fed.
(Doing his Palpatine impression.)
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Date: 2009-09-01 08:00 pm (UTC)Another week, and he'll be doing all the cute kitten things.
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Date: 2009-09-02 08:39 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-09-01 08:00 pm (UTC)Also, once he's used to solid food, you can get the little buckaroo accustomed to baths, with treat rewards before and after. Once he gets bath + treats associated in his mind, PERFECTO. :D
Oh - does the wee man have a name yet?
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Date: 2009-09-02 08:42 pm (UTC)He already hates being cleaned.
I'm hoping he figures out to be a clean cat on his own--but having a cat that didn't try to kiiiiilllll when water was introduced might be nice. Good idea!
No name until we're sure we can keep him. Phil wants to call him Burrito, but I want to call him Dread Pirate Roberts. This is how we ended up with barely named cats.
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Date: 2009-09-02 08:46 pm (UTC)Also I'm with you there on naming cats. Mine ended up with Japanese words for names - an onomotopoeic term meaning "quickly-beating heart/panic/excited" and the word for "danger/look out." So I am also not awesome with names.
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Date: 2009-09-04 05:14 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-09-04 06:09 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-09-02 02:41 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-09-02 08:42 pm (UTC)I'm thinking of actually having people over to dinners soonish, too.
According to the ancient calendar
Date: 2009-09-03 01:34 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-09-03 02:23 am (UTC)