The experience of healthy kittens is similar:
1) Parents' health (no obvious genetic defects)
2) Normal culture (no disorderly culture, no excessive culture)
3) Mother cats are well cared for during pregnancy (adequate nutrition, clean and comfortable environment)
4) Mother cats and kittens during lactation are well cared for (with adequate nutrition and clean and comfortable environment).
5) The kitten doesn't leave the mother cat early.
The most important principle: consider adopting a kitten after seeing its parents with your own eyes.
It is strongly recommended to meet the parents of kittens before adopting them (whether free or paid), which is the most important principle of adopting cats.
You can't be sure until you meet the cat's parents:
1) Whether mom and dad are healthy, whether they are well fed, and whether the living environment is clean and comfortable.
2) Whether cat parents are suitable for breeding, random breeding can easily lead to congenital diseases. For example, folded ears cannot be matched with folded ears, and cats have a high probability of congenital diseases; For example, short-legged cats don't deserve puppets, and there are problems walking with short-legged puppets.
Usually in many cat shops, you can only see the kittens in the window, and there is a high probability that you can't see the kittens' parents. When you ask parents who want to see kittens, shopkeepers usually prevaricate you like this: We have our own cat house, and our cat house is in the suburbs. When this happens, the source of the kitten is probably unknown. For safety reasons, it is not recommended.
A good cat house, usually you can see the cat's parents directly when you go to see the kitten. At this time, you should observe the mother cat as carefully as possible, ask the owner more questions and learn as much as possible about how the owner takes care of the cat. If the mother cat looks thin, the quality of the breast milk that the kitten gets cannot be guaranteed.
Secondary rule:/kloc-Don't take it home before 0/2 weeks.
After the cat is born, the third week to the seventh week is the most important social time. Cats learn social skills by playing with their parents, brothers and sisters to prepare for adulthood.
If kittens are taken away from their parents too early, it will be more difficult to integrate with other cats in the family when they grow up, or it will be difficult to get close to people, or it may be disharmony in sports.
At the same time, the sooner the cat leaves the mother cat after birth, it means that the kitten will have a shorter breastfeeding time, which means that its constitution may be worse than other kittens in the future.
Ordinary cat houses and backyard cats
There will be "regular cat houses" and "backyard cat houses" in the market. It is generally believed that regular cat house feeding is relatively standardized, while backyard cat house feeding is relatively chaotic.
I don't think the relationship between a regular cat house and a backyard cat house is black and white. Some regular cat houses do not fully meet the characteristics of regular cat houses, and some backyard cat houses also have some characteristics of regular cat houses. Therefore, everyone should consider the specific situation.
Don't worry about adopting kittens It's not too late to adopt until you know the cat house clearly. A kitten will accompany you for many years.