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| Young Kittens Sexual Maturity and Mother Cat's Intrest |
Kittens develop very quickly after their birth (After second week to seventh week). Their coordination and strength improve, they play fight with their siblings, and starts to explore the world outside the cage or home place. They learn to wash themselves by mother cat and others as well as play hunting and take part in games, like hide and seek, aiming, style of fights and many others. Showing their inborn ability as predators. These skills are developed initially by the mother cat or other adult cats bringing live prey to the nest. Later, the adult cats also demonstrate hunting techniques for the kittens to emulate. As they reach three to four weeks old, then they started to take solid food like meat or bread, with weaning usually complete by six to eight weeks. Kittens live primarily on solid food after weaning, but usually continue to suckle from time to time until separated from their mothers. Some mother cats will scatter their kittens as early as three months of age, because this age is the time when they are gaining sexual maturity, due to this they try to their mother by sexually appealing her, this is the main reason for the mother cat to kick them out to her territory and her look after while some other cats continue to look after them until they approach sexual maturity, this is due to their sexual mate, if there is only a male cat in territory or an old male cat in the area, so it is difficult for him to entertain all female cats in the area, that is why it is common observation that mother cats often take intrest in their young kittens.
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