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CAT FACTS - Kittens:

- Kittens are born with both eyes and ears closed. When the eyes open, the are always blue at first. They change color over a period of months to the final eye color.

- A healthy kitten has clear, bright eyes and clean ears.

- If you take a kitten away from it's mother before it is 8 weeks old, she may not of had enough time to train it properly to use the litter box.

- The color of the points in Siamese cats is heat related. Cool areas are darker. Siamese kittens are born white because of the heat inside the mother's uterus before birth. This heat keeps the kittens hair from darkening on the points.

- Hunting is not instinctive for cats. Kittens born to non-hunting mothers may never learn to hunt.

- Most lively, active kittens grow up to be friendly, outgoing cats.

- Only a mother cat should pick up a kitten by the scruff of the neck!