Kitten Season Is Here

You might have a pregnant cat on accident, decided to let her get pregnant on purpose or you adopted a cat, took it home and a few weeks later discovered she was pregnant.  Maybe you foster cats and kittens for your local shelter.  Either way, kitten season is here.  Each year, when the weather warms up, litters of kittens are born.  Kitten season in California seems to run from April until about November, since we have such warm weather.  Right now, in our house, we have four rescue cats.  A bit crazy, but we took them in, got them fixed immediately and love them all.  If you have kittens on the way in  your house here are some tips for must-haves before all the kittens arrive.

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• Be prepared.  Make a safe place for the momma cat to have her babies.  Keep her indoors.  You don’t want her having them in a hard to access location.
• Make sure you need any supplies needed.  If you are fostering cats you might have a litter of kittens dropped off without a mom.  You’ll need to bottle feed them every few hours and learn how to care for them.  Make sure you have neonate care training if you are taking care of a litter without the mom.
• If you have multiple cats keep the mom and babies away from the other cats.
• Make sure you have enough litter boxes for all the cats in your house (not including the babies until they are old enough to litter-box-train.
• I love the Robot Litter Box.  It is clean enough to keep in the house, is self-cleaning and is environmental-friendly.  An app on your phone will tell you when it is full can work if you have multiple litter boxes.
• General rule of thumb is to have one litter box for each cat you own.  With us, when we had two cats that were sisters they shared fine but with cats from different litters and spread apart in age, they wanted their own.  If you are putting a litter box in a new room, changing it or changing the litter give your cat(s) time to get used to it.

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In our house Pumpkin took to it right away.  I put it in a high-traffic spot for her to get used to it, smell it, climb inside, explore and when she was used to it I filled it with litter and put it in the bathroom where she has easy access to it.

• Make sure you spay or neuter your cat as soon as it is allowed after they give birth to the babies.  Get the babies fixed too, when they are old enough. With so many cats and kittens in the animal shelters it is important to prevent more cat pregnancies.
• If you are have your kittens isolated from other cats in the house, make sure they have toys and plenty to play with.  This is good for growth and development and to tire them out so they will hopefully sleep at night.

What Tips Do You Have For Kitten Season?