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I Just Got a Kitten. What Do I Do?: How to Buy, Train, Understand, and Enjoy Your Kitten share button
Mordecai Siegal
Genre Home & Garden
Format Paperback
Dimensions 0.51 (w) x 5.50 (h) x 8.50 (d)
Pages 224
Publisher Simon & Schuster Adult Publishing Group
Publication Date January 2006
ISBN 9780743245098
Book ISBN 10 0743245091
About Book
The cat is out of the bag....

CATS ARE DELIGHTFUL AND LOVABLE CREATURES

But they don't always start out that way. Every day, adorable kittens are charming their way into our homes. What happens once they get there? The family's favorite furry bundle of love can quickly become a real handful. But now help is on the way.

From renowned cat-care expert Mordecai Siegal comes the only book written specifically for the baffled "parent" of a new kitten, with all the warmth and wisdom to bring you and your feline safely and happily from the veterinarian's office to the home. Siegal takes readers through the many milestones and challenges of raising a healthy kitten, such as:

• Navigating the adoption process
• Selecting the kitten that's right for you
• Understanding different breeds
• Understanding kitten behavior
• Testing your kitten's personality
• Socializing and bonding
• Meeting your kitten's individual needs
• Kitten training
• Solving common problems, such as scratching furniture, litter box mishaps, plant eating, allergies, medical issues

This warmly written, beautifully illustrated guide is an essential source of wisdom and inspiration for any kitten owner or kitten owner to be.

Reviews

Library Journal

More cat care titles! The difference here is that while Cats focuses mainly on adult cats, Kitten is devoted to young cat care. British veterinarian Sands (Care and Behaviour of the German Shepherd Dog) provides information in a Q&A format arranged in ten sections, including breeds, feeding, health, and fact and fiction. His insights regarding cat behavior are the most interesting. For example, there are more left-pawed cats than left-handed humans; cats don't like food that's been kept in the fridge because they prefer food to be "kill warm." The wonderful color photographs and the British terminology, such as cat flap (door) and cardigan (sweater), contextualized and illustrated to avoid confusing American readers, make this a charming title. Siegal (Cat Fancier's Complete Cat Book; Cornell Book of Cat Care) focuses on the challenges of raising a healthy kitten, giving commonsense advice on preparing the home for a kitten and kitten grooming and proper feeding. Step-by-step instructions are given on training the kitten to use the litter box properly and to follow basic commands like coming when called. The information on various cat breeds is useful for those considering a pedigreed cat, but the book suffers from a lack of photographs. Amy D. Shojai's Kitten Care and Training contains much of the same information in an attractive layout with lots of photographs. Both titles are recommended for public libraries, but if your library already owns Shojai, you need not purchase Siegal.-Eva Lautemann, Georgia Perimeter Coll., Clarkston Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.
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