So we have decided to get our first cat. Great!
We want to get a kitten. Stop right there!
Of course we want a kitten. There’s the baby cuteness, the adorable actions of a tiger in miniature, the instant cuddling, the play machine personality. I adore kittens!
But they are not a good choice for the Cat Newbie.
The best cat for a Cat Newbie is an adult cat.
How can this be? We want to embark on a Cat Adventure, and of course we want to start at the very beginning. We want a kitten so we can start from scratch, so to speak. We worry about Used Cats. And just look at that little face!
Sit down, breathe into a paper bag, and reconsider.
I’m only thinking of success. Because if this is our First Cat, we don’t know how things can go terribly wrong, do we?
What could possibly go terribly wrong with a sweet little kitten?
They are numskulls. Of course, this is part of their appeal. But I must stress kittens know nothing. How can they? They just arrived.
So the kitten is going to scratch everything in sight, run full tilt into breakable objects, bite and scratch our hands when we are trying to cuddle them, and find every toy we gave them with bells or rattles and play with them in the middle of the night. We will get up and put them away.
Then they will find more. They always find more.