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Wait list
information
To be placed on a waiting list for the next litter of kittens,
please contact AbyAdikt by email, phone (307-721-2180) or
snail mail. Please include information about the kitten
you want to find - male/female - color you'd prefer -
personality traits you'd like in a kitten... and so on.
Please
inform us right away if your plans change
so another excited person can move up the list!
We always maintain a wait list for upcoming litters. When
kittens are born, and have rounded the corner past their second or
third week of life, we begin contacting people at the head of the
list. At this time we begin the process that helps us match
new families with the kittens developing personalities.
When that
selection process is final, a $200 deposit is required.
For those people too far away to actually meet their baby, we
will closely monitor the kitten's development with digital photos
and video, accompanied by comprehensive descriptions to keep our
prospective 'parents' abreast of their kittens
development.
ABYADIKT's PHILOSOPHY
We will never mass breed or farm 'batches' of kittens. For
one thing, we think our households would become pretty icky with a
zillion kittens dashing around... because, we do not raise our
kittens in kennels or cages. Our
babies are hand raised, seriously. Our adult felines do not exhibit bad behaviors,
therefore our kittens never learn or imitate bad behaviors.
Our homes do not smell like "bad cats", and our furniture
is not shredded anywhere. Stepping into our home, a
visitors nose would never detect that felines co-exist here (except
they greet everyone). We absolutely do not tolerate
damage to our home, furniture or carpet by cats. Not even
by ill mannered kittens.
Our kittens are raised as infants in an unrestricted cat-condo until
they begin to walk. Then the condo is briefly closed and
opened on command by their momma whenever she wants in and out --
until the kit's are old enough to develop consistent litter box
habits. This happens surprisingly early!
Routinely, at this stage they wake up
quite early (hitting on momma for a swallow of milk) and they enjoy
a big breakfast. With full bellies, they tend to
immediately go dig and make proper use of their litter box...
which we reward by instantly by turning the kit's loose to play in
one room - in an organized playground. This is a perfect
incentive and reinforcement for good litter box habits! In
early development we hand carry the babies back to the condo litter
box about every hour for nearly a week. Then the babies
consistently make the trip by themselves thereafter without
fail. HUGE JOY! Shortly thereafter the babies are
given more roaming privileges - one room at a time. Their
playground equipment changes as they move about.
They're given access to the house, one room at a time... slowly
ranging further and further, until they gain total access exploring
our home. Momma accompanies the kit's throughout this process
in a relentless teaching and play mode - and struggles to wean them
in this final independent phase. They usually protest her
efforts to wean them... and get pretty vocal and bossy, insisting on
maintaining their 'right' to nurse!
Their elaborate "kitten playgrounds" are interchanged
with a variety of stimulating toys that cultivate confidence,
curiosity, and motor coordination, while expanding feline-human
interactions. The kit's soon experiment with napping
independently from each other - and take every opportunity to sleep
draped over humans ... on the sofa, in beds, and in
laps.
Its about this stage when babies become enamored with their "big brother" Snafu
- as an older sibling. He makes sure they are amply exercised,
while they pester and follow him everywhere! Although Snafu
likes to wrestle, carry and clean the babies - he's
particularly good at teaching tactical skills, feline hierarchy, and
divulging secret hiding places!
Our
kit's develop dependence on intimate human relationships from the
day they are born, so kittens arrive in their new homes already
exhibiting familiarity and responsiveness to human speech and
language. They're handled, coddled, kissed and
loved by family and friends 24 hours a day.
They're also acclimated to nearly every aspect of a functioning
household - and have learned to be positively fearless of noisy
floor scrubbers, dishwashers, the Roomba, rocking chairs,
wheelchairs, washers & dryers, and doorbells, etc.
These bonding and social learning stages rarely (or
never) occur for kennel raised kittens. We've had first
hand experience (and have heard many sad stories) of poor social
skills, suspicion, nervousness, isolation, behavioral
problems, and chronic attachment issues that often occur
with kennel raised kittens.
Our goal is to do everything in our power to prevent these
upsetting feline patterns by raising kittens with amazingly robust
motor skills, exceptional confidence, and people-oriented
personalities... plus impeccable litter habits!
Visit
Our Photo Gallery of Previously Placed Kittens
WE
WANT PHOTO'S OF YOUR BABY
FOR OTHERS
TO ADMIRE
and
LET
EVERYONE ENJOY
WATCHING YOUR kitten
grow
Visit
Our Photo Gallery of Previously Placed Kittens
ADVENTUROUS BABIES!
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