Healthy Kids

I need tips on raising a healthy, well trained and sociable kitten.?

My daughter just adopted a lovely kitten born on July 10, 2007. We took the kitten when he was 2 weeks old. Kitten has been eating and developing very well. Tomorrow the kitten turns 4 weeks old and I’m looking for advice on how to train him to use the litter box, get him to eat by himself, learn the house rules ( we live in an apartment), and be loving and well mannered. We also want to make sure we are doing what is necessary for his well being. Tips on good books or web sites are also welcomed.
We also have two toddlers at home age 3.5 and 2 years old. What are ways to train the kids to be gentle and kind to the cat?
Thanks

The following web sites offer both health and behavioural advice, which will help you with many aspects of training your kitten.

http://www.sniksnak.com/cathealth/

http://www.messybeast.com/catarchive.htm#health

Kittens are quite fragile and your children are still very young, so I wouldn’t leave them alone together unsupervised until they are older. As somone else has already said, the first and probably most important thing to teach your children, is not to hold back a cat that wants to get away. The Messybeast web site has a really good article entitled Cat Communication with pictures and photos to explain cat body language. You could use those pictures to help teach your older child the warning signs that the kitten will make when he’s had enough. The web sites below offer further advice on teaching children respect for animals.

http://www.peteducation.com/article.cfm?cls=0&cat=1495&articleid=627

http://www.paws.org/cas/resources/fact_sheets_cats/catskids.php

Hope these help.

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