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Quotes About Kitten

Halter and Leash Training Like crate training, you need patience to get your kitten to accept the halter and leash. Use similar steps to help him learn there's nothing to fear and it offers a benefit for him.
~ Amy Shojai
train your kitten from an early age to accept you brushing her teeth. You can greatly reduce or even eliminate the need for professional teeth cleaning simply by brushing Kitty's teeth at home. You'll need kitty toothpaste. Your veterinarian and pet supply stores carry special non-foaming products designed for cats that are flavored with chicken or malt.
~ Amy Shojai
Introduce your kitten to dental care one step at a time. Begin by stroking and scratching her cheeks and chin, progress to rubbing her lips, and finally gently slip one finger into her mouth. Don't force her to open wide, just gently rub her gums for a very brief moment. Reward these sessions with a tasty treat—perhaps a lick of the flavored kitty toothpaste, to help her associate that flavor with handling her mouth.
~ Amy Shojai
Start to flavor your finger with the toothpaste. Then wrap your finger with a soft cloth, add a bit of the paste, and massage your kitten's teeth and gums with that. Stop when she protests too much. Be satisfied if you can do one side—you simply want to build up her tolerance level.
~ Amy Shojai
An excellent kitten restraint that works well for adult cats, too, is the pillowcase. Simply put the cat inside, with her head (or other body part that needs attention) sticking out the opening.
~ Amy Shojai
As with pilling, place the palm of one hand over your kitten's head to hold her still, and tip her head to the ceiling. Insert the end of the applicator into the corner of Kitty's mouth,
~ Amy Shojai
And remember, whenever not contraindicated by her health, always follow a treatment with a tasty treat. That associates the unpleasantness with good things, so the kitten will be less likely to argue about subsequent treatments.
~ Amy Shojai
After you apply the ointment, salve or other medicine to the skin problem, distract the kitten with a game. Play with a feather or fishing-pole toy for ten to fifteen minutes, to allow the medicine to be absorbed.
~ Amy Shojai
Playing with your kitten can be a powerful bonding and training tool. Make a point to play with your kitten for at least twenty minutes, twice a day.
~ Amy Shojai
approach the entrance and trigger it open. Prop the door flap open so the kitten can see through to the other side. Use a favorite treat or toy to repeatedly lure her back and forth through the opening until she becomes used to the idea. Remember to praise her lavishly when she's brave and pushes through the door.
~ Amy Shojai
To take good care of your kitten's fur, you'll need at least one comb. The
~ Amy Shojai
When looking for a brush, be sure the bristles or nubs are soft enough not to scratch tender kitten skin, but firm enough to reach through the fur and brush efficiently. A curry brush is rubber or plastic with short nubs
~ Amy Shojai
He came in as soon as we opened, asked for a growling panther on his shoulder blade. He fainted the moment I started." "A growling panther?" "Yep." "Then why are you giving him a tattoo of a kitten?" Finbar shrugged. "I'm just in a kitten kind of mood, y'know?
~ Derek Landy
Goodnight my kitten.
~ Ernest Hemingway
But the black kitten had been finished with earlier in the afternoon, and so, while Alice was sitting curled up in a corner of the great arm-chair, half talking to herself and half asleep, the kitten had been having a grand game of romps with the ball of worsted Alice had been trying to wind up, and had been rolling it up and down till it had all come undone again; and there it was, spread over the hearth-rug, all knots and tangles, with the kitten running after its own tail in the middle.
~ Lewis Carroll
Wondering at the loneliness of the new dead, remembering Kitten and Kitten's need for light and life. She had no sorrow for Kitten dead; she had pity that scalded. She
~ Dorothy B. Hughes
A child is a person who can't understand why someone would give away a perfectly good kitten.
~ Doug Larson
You're cute when you're pissed. Kind of like a wet kitten. Gets me hard.
~ Joanna Wylde
Curled up on one of her pillows a gray fluff of kitten yawned, showing its pink tongue, tucked its head under again, and went back to sleep.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
Go away! Get out! Don't kill me! I've got a kitten at home. He needs me. Oh, yeah. I've also got a gun.
~ Ann M. Martin
They say the test of literary power is whether a man can write an inscription. I say, 'Can he name a kitten?
~ Samuel Butler
Giving a reader a sex scene that is only half right is like giving her half a kitten. It is not half as cute as a whole kitten; it is a bloody, godawful mess. A half-good sex scene is not half as hot; it actually moves into the negative numbers, draining any heat from the surrounding material.
~ Sandra Newman
Mew, the kitten retorted, locking gazes with him. It had the expression common to all kittens, that of a tyrant in the becoming. 'I was comfortable, and you dared to move,' those jade eyes said. 'For that you must die.' When it became apparent to the cat that its two or three pounds of mass were insufficient to break Locke's neck with one mighty snap, it put its paws on his shoulders and began sharing its drool-covered nose with his lips. He recoiled.
~ Scott Lynch
Minky, the littlest cat, look as if she stepped in snow when she was a kitten and the snow never melted. She is all black except for her white paws and the spots on her head and tail where the snow didn't melt either.
~ Anne Michaels