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new kitten
me and my boyfriend got a new kitten a few days ago. he's about 3 weeks old. when we first got him, he meowed alot, and wanted tons of attention. he crawled all over everything, and on top of us. which i can understand, him being scared and wondering who we are. but he still does it. he always wants to sleep with us, and next to us, he crawls all over us, paws on our faces, everything. even when we're eating, he gets on top of us and wants to get our food. i really am starting to feel like me and my boyfriend arent getting a whole lot of alone time, cause the cat wants to be with us. is this normal for a kitten? or are we doing something wrong?
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the older they get the more alone and sleep they want but that affection never goes away. i have two cats one never leave you alone and will bite you if u dont pet her. you just have to set limits remember your the boss!!
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Through experience, I've discovered that the very best way to drive a wedge between you and your sig. other is to get an ANIMAL!
Read and find out how to get it to become a more independent creature; we sleep with 2 italian greyhounds and gee, they don't like it when we're making love, and I HATE IT when they're anywhere in the vicinity. It sucks.
Sorry, but at least with a kitten you can train them!
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The thing you've done wrong is take a kitten who is too young.
It shouldn't have been taken from it's mother at three weeks. Six to eight weeks is the recommended. Kittens aren't even really supposed to be weened off their mothers milk until six weeks old. Your little guy just wasn't ready to live without it's mom.
So you have a kitten who still NEEDS it's mommy, and is trying to get you to stand in for it's mommy. Frankly, if you don't step up and respect that need, you'll end up with a sick kitten, or one with serious behavioral problems (like babies who are not given enough affection and care in their infancy).
Google "How to raise an orphan kitten" for more tricks and techniques to handling an infant kitten.
You DON'T get a lot of alone time right now. You would have gotten more if you'd adopted a cat who was ready to be a bit more independent, but you got a newborn. It needs a lot from you right now. Please, please please, do your research and care for your kitten properly. It's going to be a hard few weeks, but that's what you signed up for here.
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