I Gotta New Puddy-Tat

[Des_and_Tay]

My sister just brought her home one day after she went with a friend to help pick out their new kitten.
Sge said that she could give her back to the family if my mom said no, but we didn't have the heart to send her back.

My dog, Ella, is in the crate:


On our back deck:


Stalking a Leaf:


She's only about 9 or 10 weeks Old right now, seeing as we got her when she was six weeks...
oh. And her name?
It's Libby.
My sister named her, and I absolutely despise it.
That's not the worst part, though.
it's short for Liberty Belle.

[SarahCun]

I think it's a fine name:] If you don't like Libby, maybe you could call her Belle?

[Tanitsja]

awe she is way cute |s|

though as a general info just cause too many people dont know it, kittens and puppies shouldnt be seperated from their moms till they are 12 weeks old

i got my kitten to early and he had behavioural issues due to that, i knew his sucking on everything wasnt normal so i went and investigated, and found that kittens just as puppies should stay with their mom for 12 weeks |s|

to often they are seperated at 6/8 weeks, and this is to early, they may not be properly weaned yet, and still have a critical learning phase where their mother can teach them so much more then we as humans can

i know for dogs they before recomended 8 weeks so that humans could use the critical phase to bond and teach the puppy things, but reality is we cant replace the lessons the mom can, so their better off with her in the begining of that phase |s|

nothing to be done now, just as an information so that next time you come across someone with small kittens or whatnot tell them to wait and that the kittens need to be longer with their mom

[Des_and_Tay]

I researched and found out the same same facts myself, Tanitsja.
But, hey, what can you do?
My dog was 12 weeks when we got her, I made sure of it.
Haha. The trouble is, she already responds to Libby when we call her.

[A. L. Aljan]

Is she a mitted ragdoll, by any chance?


~ Amanda @ Aljan

[Des_and_Tay]

She's a Siamese-Calico mix.

My friend also said she looked at least part ragdoll.

But that's only as far as I know.

[Vitani]

Awwww, she's so cute! I love the pic of her in front of the crate, that cracks me up....

( both our cats bully the dog when she's in her crate cause they know she can't get out >.< )


6 weeks is a little young, but not drastically so...Just watch how she behaves and potentially give her calcium supplements. It really depends on when she was weaned....

My Mr. Paz has had trouble all his life because he was weaned at 3 weeks old, and he and his littermates were then fed only raw mince and water. I got him at 4 weeks, but wasn't in time to get the other two, and don't know what happened to them...We had him 3 days, and his spine started collapsing from lack of calcium, crushing the nerves to his hind legs...We woke up to find him dragging himself by his front legs, and weakly at that. After surgery, he slowly came right but even at 11 years old, we still feed him calcium supplements. He's only got his four canines left, all the rest of his teeth went last year, and he's missing a toe.....We love him, big sooky that he is. He has seperation issues and gets very anxious if I'm away more than a few days, because I had to mother him so much as a kitten, he doesn't realize he's a cat >.< He's terrified of my Grandmothers cat who's recently moved in with us...

Gah, sorry for rambling...


Ayway lol, my point was she's absolutely adorable and she looks like she's doing just fine even though you got her early ( lol, I think Liberty Belle is so cute! )

[Des_and_Tay]

lol. Thank you.

My other cats, Sidney and Sierra, were both seperated extremely young from their mother.

Sierra would try to suckle on my old flannel pajamas, and she would knead my neack with her paws when she was trying to sleep.
Poor babies :(

Anyway, they're all of the mindset that they are human and i am to be followed around by a line of cats like a mother duck and her ducklings.
Cracks me up.

My sister likes to think Libby is hers, but i am the only one who really cares for her at all.

This has happened with every animal she has supposedly 'had', even though it is fairly obvious to everyone except her that all the animals in the home are basically mine.
Well, there you go, getting me rambling on about my animals!
Believe me, this is mild compared to the severe case of ramblia I have.

[Tanitsja]

nods there a reason, they just shouldnt be weaned that early so it dont really depend on when they get weaned, they shouldnt period + its also the things an animal mother can teach them

and yeah my cat would suck on anything and well having some knowledge of animals if mostly dogs and whatnot at that point, i understood enough that this was not how it was suposed to be, so i went and sougth more knowledge and found the reason why so

its a common behavioural issue in to early seperated kittens, and while he now as an adult has stoped, he was still ocationaly do it even when i gave him up several months later

so yeah not much to do in this case lol, when it happened it happened, i am just because i know trying to spread the knowledge so people can pass it on and learn not to for the benefit of the animals, so that next time it may not happen *s*

[gadget]

She is absolutely gorgeous.

You could be lucky with her being seperated so early, my cat was seperated from his mother at 4 weeks and i have never had any problems with him, he s now 6 years old and he has never been sick, and has never sucked on anything. My dog who is also 6 was seperated from his mother at 4 weeks and has also never had any problems. But i have been told that they shouldn't be seperated from their mothers until 12 weeks.

I have the same problem with my brother he was given a blue heeler for his birthday 6 years ago and i do everything for her and our other animals. He likes to tell everyone that they she is his but they all know that she is for intense and purposes mine.

Anyway she is beautiful.

[Des_and_Tay]

Thank you everyone.


I guess it comes with being the oldest-
I always end up taking care of everything.

[Amara]

[Fireflake]

I agree with Amara. I work at my local humane society and puppy and kittens are usually weaned at eight weeks.