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2 year olds a kittens..
hey ladies..
im looking for general advice on kittens and my 2 year old. we have been thinking of geting one for a while. lo loves animals and is great with them (ie not too in their face actually quite respectful and loves our neighbours cats etc) anyway the chance has come up to have one in the next week and we are seriously contemplating it however we dont want to jump into it head first! lol we have both had cats before but our parent had the full responsibility for them and we were older than our lo now when we got them. i know (or hope) eventually lo and kitten (whenever we get one if its not now) will be best of friends and have learnt to live with each other. but what about the day you bring it home?? and the weeks and months after?? any general advice would be gratefully received
so absolutely anything you can think of would be great advice/do's/donts/ best buys etc anything at all
thank you
im looking for general advice on kittens and my 2 year old. we have been thinking of geting one for a while. lo loves animals and is great with them (ie not too in their face actually quite respectful and loves our neighbours cats etc) anyway the chance has come up to have one in the next week and we are seriously contemplating it however we dont want to jump into it head first! lol we have both had cats before but our parent had the full responsibility for them and we were older than our lo now when we got them. i know (or hope) eventually lo and kitten (whenever we get one if its not now) will be best of friends and have learnt to live with each other. but what about the day you bring it home?? and the weeks and months after?? any general advice would be gratefully received
so absolutely anything you can think of would be great advice/do's/donts/ best buys etc anything at all
thank you
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I would just suggest that you involve your LO as much as possible in the whole process. It's going to be a bit like having a new baby in the house from their perspective so I guess it would be a similar process!? Also, maybe have an area where the kitten could 'escape to' if it wants some time away from LO especially in the early days when it won't be going outside.
Hope it all works out well.
Xxx
Hope all goes well take care
we went to pick a kitten up today which we were promised and when i texted to say that we were on our way after rushing home form work being very excited all day.. borrowing a carry box and evrything i got a text saying "sorry they have all gone!"
sooooooooooooooo dissappointed!!! and he only texted me to inform me after i said i was on my way!!! we were already half way there!!! and what if i hadnt and just turned up grrrrrrrrrr so mad and sad!!!