Thursday, December 12, 2019

The Joys of Raising a Kitten

When I first got my kitten I really didn’t know what to expect in terms of how fast the kitten would grow and what tricks I could teach the kitten to do. Each day that I have the kitten, the more amazed I have become with how fast he is growing up and how much he has already been able to learn. He is currently only about four and a half months old and he already weighs nearly eight pounds and he has already learned more tricks than I ever would have expected a cat to be able to learn over their entire life. The first trick I was able to teach my kitten is to come to me when I shake a bag of treats. He learned this fairly quickly and I was soon able to teach him to come running when I call his name. 

The next trick my kitten was able to learn was to play fetch. This was the last trick I was ever expecting a cat to learn, and the first time I threw a toy and he brought it back to me it really caught me off guard. Ever since I learned that he likes to play fetch I have played fetch with him for almost an hour every day, or as long as he is willing to keep bringing the toy back to me. The only distractions that consistently bring an end to his involvement in the game are when he loses the toy or decides he would rather play with another cat living in our house. Nothing brings me more joy in life than teaching my cat all of these different tricks and I hope to teach him many more over the course of his life.

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