Now that we have a lively, healthy, four-month-old kitten, Dear Husband is, for the first time, becoming acquainted with the concept of Kitten Teleportation. This didn’t come up with RJ. He has a sturdy, tank-like build, and for his first few months with us, he was occupied with seeing how many toys he could attack [...]
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Kitten Teething
Aggressive play biting in kittens is one thing. Kitten teething is another. And sometimes they combine into a perfect storm of chewing and biting that can even draw blood; though they don’t mean to. Many kittens teethe so smoothly the process meshes with their normal play, and we aren’t even aware they are teething. But, [...]
How Kittens Learn
There’s a reason kittens are so cute. They don’t know anything; and they don’t know anything. Adult cats can be astonished and exasperated by a kitten’s blatant ignorance of how things fall over and what isn’t good to play with. Often, they will feel like avoiding the kitten, dreading being blamed for kitten fall-out. While [...]
Kitten Energy Cycles
Cats have amazing energy storage capacities. They are capable of lying in wait for hours, and then exploding into multiple avenues of action. If the prey goes south, east, or counterclockwise, the cat has a move ready for that eventuality. Kittens have a rather long learning curve in mastering this tremendous potential. That’s why kittens [...]
