At what age the kitten is ready to enter into the new house?
American felinology urgently recommend, to give kittens to the new house follows at the age of 12 weeks and is more senior.

Often enough to have to face persevering desire of people to get a small kitten at the age of 6-8 weeks. Thus they refer to the separate factory owners offering kittens on sale at such age. It seems to the buyer, that if the kitten will be more senior, it will not be completely adhered to the new owner. Unfortunately, this widespread error leads often to sad results.

Case from practice in the USA. The Siamese kitten has been given the new house under pressing of buyers at the age of seven weeks. In three weeks the kitten has been returned the factory owner with complaints to a cold and chronic diarrhoeia, not ability to use a tray. In the house where it have taken away, a vein an adult cat, and the scared kid, all time were in a stress status, time most part hid in the refuge under a bed. Unfortunate masters have declared to the factory owner, that never a thoroughbred cat since, it is obvious, that thoroughbred cats poor health any more will not get.

Fortunately, after several weeks of an intensive care and careful leaving the poor kitten has risen on pads. Only at the age of 6 months after the tolerated shock it has definitively got stronger and has found the new masters.

Doctor Arnold from New York, the skilled factory owner and the veterinary surgeon, considers, that the minimum age in which to kittens can abandon mum and the house, - 12 weeks. At the age of 6-7 weeks kittens still absolutely children requiring care of their mum-cat.

The age of 12 weeks can seem too big for those who sees newspaper announcements of sale of kittens of 6-8 weeks from a stem and those who got kittens at early age. They such lovely and amusing these babies, that the majority of people would like to have them at this age to see, how they grow. However, you can cause irreparable injury to a kitten, having taken away it from mum too early. The season between 6 and 12 weeks is critical in its mental, mental and emotional development. The excommunication of a kitten from mum and an environment familiar to it can at this time, at least call excitement and stress, and at worst to become the cause of serious illness or even mors.

POSSIBLE PROBLEMS OF THE EARLY EXCOMMUNICATION OF THE KITTEN FROM MOTHER

Problems with health and immune system

The basic development of immune system in kittens descends just in the season between eight and 12 weeks. The immunodefence received from mother, finishes the action, and immunodefence after the first bacterination only starts to educe in this season. Therefore during this moment kittens are more acquisitive to illnesses, especially to respiratory diseases of the top respiratory tracts and a diarrhoeia.

Passes till 10 days after engrafting before immunodefence occurrence. Till this moment kittens receive some lobe of immune antibodys with milk of mother. In this season they gradually start to be disaccustomed to a maternal breast, passing to immunodefence from bacterination. The immune system of a kitten is reconstructed, and it becomes vulnerable for illnesses. Getting to the new house, the kitten receives stress and is exposed to attack of various microorganisms owing to what the risk of diseases sharply increases.

At the age of six or seven weeks the kid receives only the first series of engraftings, repeated bacterination is necessary for immunodefence formation. Unfortunately, the new owner sometimes neglects these revaccinations, that often conducts to tragical consequences.

On interrogations of owners of the cats who have got kittens at the age of eight weeks, the overwhelming majority of them faced problems with health of kids, possibly, bound to stress of an excommunication from mother at this early age. It is obvious, that it is more favourable to factory owner to sell a kitten, than to raise and contain it to age of 3-4 months. However for a kitten-kid it can appear too severe test, therefore it would be desirable to warn the factory owners aspiring to to enlarge the income, of this error.

 Repeated bacterination in 16, instead of in 12 weeks is necessary for such animals. The most important cause on which Yana Vendland, заводчица бурманских cats, gives the kittens at the age of 12 weeks and is more senior, that kittens in more early age are too weak also is, and their transition in the new house and in a new environment frames a stressful situation which many times over enlarges risk of diseases.

Age, in which kittens become strong enough to find the new house, it can be varied a little depending on breed and a concrete cat. Kittens of some breeds, for example, Devon Rex in 8 weeks still simply too small, they should grow up and adapt in a society, at least, till 12 weeks before they will enter into the new house. Russian blue and Abyssinian also it is necessary for graceful kittens to type body mass successfully to tolerate bacterination.

Thus, from the point of view of health, it is preferable, that the kitten has passed house bacterination, in an environment habitual for it. It is not enough first engrafting for production of immunodefence and the kitten needs time to be reconstructed from the immunodefence received with milk of mother, on immunodefence after engrafting. Besides, kittens should reach the certain dimensions and to get stronger physically before they will get to the new house.
Problems with feeding and an excommunication from a maternal breast

The excommunication of a kitten from a maternal breast should descend gradually, instead of in one day. Kittens sucking mum's milk start to eat gradually nutrition, enlarging its quantity, day after day and reduce milk consumption. Eventually, they cease to suck mum's milk, but it descends not six, and not 8 weeks.

In most cases cats stop to feed the kittens with milk in the season between the eighth and twelfth week of their life. The termination of feeding by milk of mother is a first serious lesson in life of a kitten in which mum learns it to cope with abandonings and disappointments. The kittens who have not received such lesson from mum, can have behavioural problems.

The excommunication from a breast it is not simple transition of a kitten to firm nutrition, its this formation of independence of mother. This important process should descend stage by stage. In most cases kittens continue to suck milk till 9 or 10 months, sometimes more longly, for this time they have time to adapt for the new independent life completely.

Bad appetite and inability to use a tray for a toilet are typical problems which masters of kittens-babies face. Many kittens at the age of 6-8 months are not able to use yet a tray constantly. Often on long term habit production to a tray 10 weeks are necessary. The diarrhoeia (diarrhoeia) accompanies very often changes in a feed of a kitten and the various stressful situations arising with occurrence in the new house. The diarrhoeia can even frame threat for life of too small kitten since it leads to a strong dehydration of an organism and fast weight reduction of the kid.

Behavioural problems and social adaptation of kittens

People wish to get often a kitten at early age because they are afraid, that more adult kitten will not be adhered to them. It at all does not correspond to the validity. More adult kittens perfectly well establish communications with the new masters. On the contrary, having received there are more than lessons from mum, the kitten becomes more resistant to stress and strong that it is easier to adapt in the new house.

Actually the kittens separated from mother at too early age, accept often the new owner as substitute mother. They suck often clothes, buttons, ear lobules of ears or. And though similar things are called by affection, however this situation develops irregular and unhealthy behavioural reactions. Kittens become dependent on the owner, are frightened and are nervous, when there are one or escape and hide at the sight of strangers. As a rule, such kittens do not know, how itself to conduct with other cats that becomes absolutely unacceptable in the house where there are other animals.

The season, in which the kitten acquires behaviour key rules in a society, begins approximately at the age of four weeks and comes to the end by 12-14 week of his life. In this season kittens under a sensitive management of mum study to investigate the world. Between the ninth and 14 weeks they study at mum and sisters and brothers in rules of dialogue and behaviour with other cats. They study to distinguish and interpret the cat's tongue moves. Therefore the kitten who has passed these important lessons, can not know tongue of dialogue with other cats literally.

Especially important at this time dialogue of a kitten with various people that the got experience has relieved it of pavor before the stranger. Insufficient socialisation in this season leads to that, for example, that the cat starts to be afraid of men, people in points, etc.

Two Abyssinian kittens who have remained without mum at early age, Deborah Feldhem's who has sheltered orphans to recognition, demanded the special attention and differed from the relatives nervousness and uncommunicativeness. Kittens were jealous and the excitatory, they hissed and were scratched at an occurring with strangers. Deborah is assured, that if these kittens have grown together with mum in a habitual environment to more advanced age, they would be much better emotionally prepared for life in the new house.

It is necessary for kittens to spend enough time with mum, brothers and sisters to acquire the important lessons of dialogue with other cats and behaviour in a human society and to grow happy, healthy and self-assured. The kittens separated from mum and colleagues too early, as a rule, not so are tolerant and quiet as what remained in the monogynopaedium to more advanced age.