Friday, July 31, 2009
Anyone knows where I could buy a baby cat (under 2 months)in Toronto?
Answers:
Don't buy one. Adopt one from an animal shelter. It should not be hard to find the nearest one. Just google it.
go to humane society (ospca ).
2 months is too young. You want a cat that has stayed with its mom until 3 months, 12 weeks. There are many behavioral problems associated with cats taken away too young.
Honestly, anyone who would sell a kitten that young should not be allowed to own a cat... actually they shouldn't be allowed to own a cat just for letting their cat breed when there are so many cats in the shelters.
Tey a shelter, they may have an abandoned litter, but you are just asking for problems with a cat that wasn't allowed to develope properly or learn alll the lessons its mom has to teach.
I would guess no. And if you could that would be a bad thing. Kittens need to stay with their mothers until three months to get proper socialization. And kittens younger than 2 months would require a great deal of care.
Your local animal shelter. Apply to be a foster home, if you know how to raise orphaned kittens. It's a 24/7 job, however, and you need to know what you're doing (though I'm sure your animal shelter will not allow you to foster if you have no clue). It's kitten season at the moment, and most shelters are having high numbers of pregnant mommas and orphans come in, and these are the cats that are euthanized if there's no foster homes available. So good for you, if fostering is something you're interested in.
If you just want a young kitten to play with and raise, and not waking up in the middle of the night to bottlefeed, then 8wks is the youngest you want, and I guarantee there's plenty of those at your local animal shelters. :-)
I agree. Adopt, don't buy. I disagree that two months is too young. I am in my sixties now and have spent most of my years around cats. All the best pets I have had were taken from their mothers very young. The very best was taken from her mother at birth, there were too many kittens and she was the runt, and hand fed. She lived for seventeen years.
OTOH a young kitten does require a great deal of time. So if you do not have it, or are not willing to spend it, do not get a young kitten.
And this is not to say that older cats cannot make fine pets, and sometimes they are the best if you do not have the time to raise and be with a cat that will be far more emotionally dependent upon you if you are all it has known.
Get one at your local animal shelter,
you can find one nearest to you in
your local phonebook in the pet's
section, or at www.yellowpages.com!!
Hope I Was Helpful!!!
2 months is the absolute youngest age to take a kitten away from his mother. anything under that is bad news. go to your local shelter %26%26 adopt a kitten.
Why would you want to buy one? There are tons of cats that people give away everyday that are young, fit and have all their shots and are even fixed. Look around and give an unwanted cat a good home. Good luck.
You can adopt a cat from your local animal shelter: here is their web address http://www.toronto.ca/animal_services/pe... They have pictures of the animals up for adoption on their webpage and information on their age. We adopted our first cat from the South services animal shelter. He was around 7 weeks old at the time of adoption (he had lost his mother at an early age which is the reason we were able to adopt him so young) and we paid around $150 in adoption fees.
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