Understanding kitten Behavior

Too Often, Kitten owners resort to punishment when they feel that kitten has stepped out of line. It is a poor method for shaping behavior in most of the condition. Physical corrections and scolding are prone to cripple your relationship and can lead to more serious issues, for example, aggression.

Never hit, shake or holler at your cat. If you need to check or intrude a behavior, for example, scratching furniture, use a water spray or make a noise by tapping a tabletop or clapping loudly. Abstain from doing anything that makes your little cat act panicked or hesitant to approach you.

Understanding your little cat's body language

Kittens are good at telling you what they need, either vocally or with their bodies. It won't be much sooner than you understand what your cat is attempting to let you know.

Meows

As your little cat grows up, you begin to hear different "meows" from her. Low-pitched meows typically mean your kitten is uncomfortable or troubled. High-pitched sound mean she's happy, and if she continues rehashing them, she's need your attention. Perhaps she feels now is the right time for her most loved cat food? With a little practice, you'll soon get to understand what your cat's trying to say.

Interestingly, cat sounds are barely ever directed to other kittens, a nearly always at humans. So listen up, she's conversing with you. Try to understand more about cat's meow.

Purring

Purring is normally an indication of happiness, despite the fact that it doesn't generally show satisfaction. A cat that is sick or restless will at times purr as a solace. However, if your cat is rubbing more against you and purring noisily, it’s an indication of warmth and affection or she's request something, for example, food.

Hisses and growls

In case you're watching these, you've got one scared little cat. She's attempting to puff herself up to sound scary so that she can secure herself. You'll generally hear her hiss and growl throughout strained experiences with different creatures.

Rubbing

When your cat rubs her face up against you, it means she's really happy comfortable in your company and showing that she likes you.

Rolling over

If your cat rolls over onto her back and stretches her body and legs, she is showing complete submissiveness and belief in you. Your cat is also asking for attention. And when she hops onto your lap and snuggles down continuously, there's no doubt how she watch her new environment.

Tell-tail

A kitten's tail is an incredible indicator of her emotions. A happy cat will hold her tail straight up; if she is panicked, she'll tuck it between her legs. The broad swishing of a grown-up cat's tail shows inconvenience or anxiousness. If she's truly disturbed, her tail will move quickly from side to side- this is threatening behavior. A twitching tail is a certain indication of your little cat's excitement.

Kitten - Birth and development

A feline litter usually consists of two to five kittens. The kits are born after a gestation that lasts between 64 and 67 days, with an average length of 66 days. Kittens emerge in a sac called the amnion which is bitten off and eaten by the mother cat.

For the first several weeks, kittens are unable to urinate or defecate without being stimulated by their mother.  They are also unable to regulate their body temperature for the first three weeks, so kittens born in temperatures less than 27°C (80 °F) can die from exposure if they are not kept warm by their mother.

The mother's milk is very important for the kittens' nutrition and proper growth. This milk transfers antibodies to the kittens, which helps protect them against infectious disease. Newborn kittens are also unable to produce concentrated urine, and so have a very high requirement for fluids.

Kittens open their eyes about seven to ten days after birth. At first, the retina is poorly developed and vision is poor. Kittens are not able to see as well as adult cats until about ten weeks after birth.

Taking Care of Bobcat

Bobcats need dedicated vets who have experience with wildlife and exotic animals. They also must be fed raw food diet that requires to be explored to assure proper nutrition from organ meats, muscle meat, bones, and any other supplementary forms of nutrition besides whole prey items. 

Housing: Preferably, bobcat owners must have indoor and outdoor housing for their animals. Some bobcat owners have doggie doors that led to decently-sized enclosures outside. Such cages must be tested and robust. 

While kind family members, bobcats are still untamed and may be aggressive at times or have bad bathroom habits, in which they would need a safe place to move away to that is not confining like a small dog run. It is just a general idea to have a designated space for any exotic cat.

If the bobcat is anticipated to spend a lot of time in a cage or be a fully caged pet, large sizes and enrichment are particularly necessary.

Escape prevention is also a main concern with exotic feline ownership. Non-domesticated animals frequently don't return like most domesticated cats, and more significantly, in spite of the lack of statistical evidence, the public will see an escaped bobcat as a safety threat and your animal, if spotted, may be executed on sight.

Generally after such events happen, even if the animal is safely returned and no one is injured, there will be an attack of animal rights activists and uninformed public that will campaign for exotic pet bans as a result.

Exotic cat owners should also robustly consider modifying their homes to put up double door entrances. 

These structures are similar to what is employed in public live butterfly homes; such doors lead to a small room in which you can carefully lock the animal into the house before you go out. These are very important to prevent escapes.

For most homes this is a pricey undertaking or a lot of work to tailor you, but for committed pet owners, as bobcat owners should be, it is worth it in the long run.

Care for a Bobcat

Every year, young bobcats find themselves in need of a helping hand in southern California. Occasionally they are healthy cats who just found themselves in the wrong place at the wrong time; more often they are ill, malnourished, orphaned, or suffering from injuries caused by proximity to human populations.

There is only one rescue group in San Diego County licensed to rescue, rehabilitate, and release native apex predators in need of medical attention:  The Fund for Animals Wildlife Center.  Their small staff and cadre of dedicated volunteers rescue hundreds of animals each year, including bobcats, eagles, coyotes, skunks, and the occasional mountain lion.

The Wildlife Center can house over 100 animals at one time, providing food, antibiotics, and wound care. Rescue and stabilization is just the beginning — then comes rehabilitation and release back into the wild. Appropriate areas for release are scouted in advance, to give rehabilitated animals the best chances of survival and ensure the patient won't be coming back in anytime soon.

You can help feed a rescued bobcat! This Gift That Gives More™ provides food for one day, helping a bobcat regain its strength for eventual release back into the wild. 

Health - Kitten

Domestic kittens in developed societies are usually vaccinated against common illnesses from two to three months of age. The usual combination vaccination protects against Feline viral rhinotracheitis (FVR), Feline calicivirus (C), and Feline panleukopenia (P). This FVRCP inoculation is usually given at eight, twelve and sixteen weeks, and an inoculation against rabies may also be given at sixteen weeks. Kittens are usually spayed or neutered at approximately seven months of age, but kittens as young as seven weeks may be neutered (if large enough), especially in animal shelters. Such early neutering does not appear to have any long-term health risks to cats, and may even be beneficial in male cats. Kittens are commonly wormed against roundworms from about four weeks.

Schrödinger's cat

Schrödinger's cat is a thought experiment, usually described as a paradox, devised by Austrian physicist Erwin Schrödinger in 1935. It illustrates what he saw as the problem of the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics applied to everyday objects. The scenario presents a cat that might be alive or dead, depending on an earlier random event. Although the original "experiment" was imaginary, similar principles have been researched and used in practical applications. The Cat paradox is also often featured in theoretical discussions of the interpretation of quantum mechanics. In the course of developing this experiment, Schrödinger coined the term Verschränkung (entanglement).

Orphaned kittens

Kittens require a high-calorie diet that contains more protein than the diet of adult cats. Young orphaned kittens require milk every two to four hours, and they need physical stimulation to defecate and urinate. Cat milk replacement is manufactured to feed to young kittens, because cow's milk does not provide all of their necessary nutrients.

Hand-reared kittens tend to be affectionate to humans as adults and more dependent on them than those reared by their mothers, but they can also show volatile mood swings and aggression. Orphaned kittens can be severely underweight and as such can have health problems later in life, such as heart conditions. The compromised immune system of orphaned kittens (from lack of antibodies found naturally in the mother's milk) can make them especially susceptible to infections, making antibiotics a necessity when caring for such kittens.