Kittens

"Kitten's sharp claws can get it into trouble."

Kittens
By: Kate Petty
Copyright 1990
Gloucester Press
Non Fiction - Informational
4th Grade
24 pages

A mother cat is pregnant for about nine weeks and you can even sometimes see the kittens moving around inside her.  Once kittens are born their eyes are close but they can still find their way to their mother to feed, eatting and sleeping is what newborn kitten spend most of their time doing.  After about a week the eyes will open but they still really cant see well.  The eye color of kittens start off gray-blue but will change around five weeks old to green or gold, it is not often that they stay blue.  After three to four weels kittens can start to walk by themselfs.  One of the things that cats spend most of their time doing is washing themselfs.  They start off by getting licked by their mother but over time they will start to copy what she does to clean themselfs.  Once they reach eight weeks they are eating soild food and drinking from a bowl.  Kittens love to play and they learn to hunt as well.  Not only are kitten playful but they are very mischivious as well.  They love to learn how things work and were things go, but when they get older that dies down and the cat will start to calm down.  When a kitten reaches seven to eight weeks they can now leave the mother and move to a new home.  Cats can live for 15 to 20 years.

I would recomend this book to any cat lover or anyone who has a cat that will be having kittens soon.  It is full of infor that will be helpful to them.

I dont think that anything is wrong with this book.

I LOVED this book.  Cats are my favorite animal and I remember reading almost every cat book in my elementary libery.  No matter how many books I read there is always something new to learn still.