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Let the kitten stay on kitten food for at least a year.
A kitten needs a lot of touching and petting. Why?
The ideal cat grows from a kitten that is adaptive, social, curious, playful, and unafraid of new experiences and people (within limits). As with most mammals, especially domestic animals and humans, early experiences in infancy [...]
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If your cat has fleas, Sergeant’s Skip-Flea & Tick Shampoo (which we use on our pet kittens) has specific instructions on how to use it when bathing the pets for maximum benefits.
From the back label of the Sergeant’s Skip-Flea & Tick Shampoo bottle:
Wet the pet and apply a generous amount of shampoo working it well [...]
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It was a sad day when we discovered that Salt and Pepper had fleas. A few fleas may not harm a cat but too many may cause anemia.
Within a few hours of the discovery of fleas, my husband bought Sergeant’s Skip-Flea & Tick Shampoo and Bayer’s Carbamate Bay-o-pet powder.
The shampoo is applied to the wet [...]
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We knew, of course, that cat bites and scratches can cause rabies but, until now, I had no idea just how many diseases and infections a cat can pass on to humans.
Zoonosis is any infectious disease that may be transmitted from other animals, both wild and domestic, to humans (Wikipedia).
1) Ringworms (tinea) - a fungal [...]
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When we bought Salt and Pepper, we asked the shop owner how often it was advisable to bathe cats. She said once a week is usually enough for kittens. We also asked if bathing them was problematic. She said no, in fact, they were very well behaved during bath time.
It was a little hard to [...]
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I’ve introduced them in my other blog but we hadn’t decided on their names yet at the time.
Meet Salt and Pepper, our male and female Persian kittens. Why and how we bought them is an interesting story.
On the last week of March, we went to SM Megamall to buy a laptop for Sam. We arrived [...]
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They don’t even have names yet but they have already changed our lives.
The white Persian kitten is male; the gray one is female. Milo and Kida, Mac and Apple, Verdana and Tahoma… well, we haven’t decided on their names yet.
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Until Whitey came along, I felt no affection for my daughters’ cats and kittens.
I was going through my hard drive when I saw the photo of Whitey above wearing a dolphin pendant that only my daughter Sam could have placed around his neck. Whitey is one of the two kittens from Bebe’s second litter. My [...]
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