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When do the kittens open their eyes?
Your cat gave birth to kittens! What could be better? Just watch them grow and learn about their development more. How they will turn from small blind kittens into great beautiful cats as they learn a great wonderful world. But when? When it will be?! When do kittens open their eyes when they start walking, eating, playing? These are the questions most often encountered by novice co-owners. And to answer them, you need to study the development of kittens in detail.
A cat or cat is considered a newborn kitten before the 8th week of life, inclusive, i.e. Up to 2 months. By the way, after this period they can be sold, since at that time they are fully developed. So, what happens with the kittens at certain stages of development? Below is a table in which I will describe in detail the entire development of the kitten.
| Weeks of life | Description of development |
| 1st | He can not control the temperature of his body, he needs mother's attention. 7-10 day is the period when the kittens open their eyes. Can find food by smell. |
| 2nd | The kitten develops hearing, the baby intensively adds weight. Kittens 2 weeks look like this: |
| 3rd | Kittens become curious and restless, seek to know the world. |
| 4th | The eyes of the kittens change color, the wool also changes color. The children develop skills of movement and motor skills. The percentage of weight gain increases even more. From this week they can start to feed. At this age it is time to teach the kids to the tray. |
| 5th | The sight of the kittens is fully developed, they can be weaned from the breast (start feeding solid food). |
| 6th | It is time to get vaccinated, depending on the lifestyle, the character of the kitten is finally formed. |
| 7th | The kittens form an adult sleep mode, daily they are awake for 3-4 extra hours. |
| 8th | Kittens are completely disaccustomed to the mother's breast and finally switched to solid food. It becomes possible to determine the sex of the kitten. Kids are noisy and playful. |
Perhaps, when reading the description of the fourth week you noticed the phrase "the eyes of a kitten change color". No, I was not mistaken, it really is. When the kittens open their eyes, they are always blue. Over time, they change color with a kaleidoscope. For some time they can be each of their own shade, and maybe several colors to be present at once on one eye, for example, a green eye with yellow dots. But it's not scary, with time each of them will acquire the same even shade.
To the table it will be appropriate to add a couple of notes about the role of the host in the development of feline offspring. When the kittens are chopped, it is advisable to buy them a toy that would play a dual role for them: entertaining and as a simulator for new teeth. Such toys are sold in any pet store. They look something like this:
If you want your furniture to be intact and safe, I strongly recommend that you buy a scribe, because the kittens have claws that will interfere with them at first. Sawclaws are also very common in pet stores:
And this is the development phase of kittens only up to 2 months. But life goes on, and everything in their body continues to grow. At 3 months the eyes of the kittens get a constant color, and at 5 the baby teeth of the babies fall out and change to permanent ones. From the sixth month comes the period of puberty. Young cats can start to tag their territory, and the cats - to ride on the floor with estrus. From the eighth month, especially heartless owners can take their "young and early" to the vet for castration or sterilization.
That's the whole description of the physical development of the kitten. Now you know the answers to the questions about when the kittens open their eyes and how many weeks after birth the kitten starts to hear the sounds surrounding it, and also to many others.
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