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This is an orphan kitten that's about two weeks old. One of a member of a litter of
six who are doing really well and who are being hand raised. For orphan kittens it's
very important that they get lots of handling and lots of socialization. So every day they
need to come out, in addition to their feeding and their bathing, you need to stroke them
and check their bodies for any abnormalities while you're petting them, get them use to
having their little feet held. Even now that they're little their ears are sort of folded
over, but you want to get use to having them have their ears touched. You can see this
kitten is looking around for a bottle, but having these kittens handled every day is
really great. If you have an adult cat who is well vaccinated and healthy and stable
around kittens, who's pretty agreeable, it would help a lot to have some adult cat time
for these little kittens. So that the adult will teach them what normal cat behavior is.