food . Around the third or fourth week after birth, the mother actually starts to move away from the kittens when they try to nurse. There...
Alas, weaning
Contests for darn near everything ...
cat shows, the cages in which the cats are displayed are a standard size (24 × 27 × 27 inches). While there is much fuss about grooming the...
The point system
eyes and coat, among others. Each breed’s list of standards and points adds up to one hundred, of course. Happily for the cats, they are no...
Hearing first, or seeing?
As noted, kittens are born both blind and deaf. So which comes first, hearing or seeing? The average kitten’s eyes open in about a week—the r...
“Vetting in”
All the people connected to cat shows are, of course, fanatical about the health of the cats, given that so many cats in close quarters coul...
The kitten scruff posture
A kitten has its own instinctive response to “scruffing”: while being carried by its scruff, it stops wriggling and tucks its legs close to ...
No outcasts here!
There was a time when cat show competitions were for purebred cats only, and the many happy owners of mixed-breed cats could not enter their...
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