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La primera vez que dejas a tu gatito solo en casa, es inevitable sentir nervios por lo que pueda pasar. ¿Llorará todo el día y se angustiará? ¿O quizás se aburrirá y destrozará cosas por toda la casa? Y, lo que es peor, un gatito sin entrenar puede dejar sus «sorpresas» en cualquier lugar menos en el arenero. ¿Cómo puedes preparar a tu gatito para que se quede solo en casa por primera vez?
1. Controla su espacio
Lo peor que puedes hacer es salir de casa por primera vez y dejar que tu gatito campe a sus anchas por toda la vivienda. Es fundamental establecer un entorno seguro, aunque limitado, donde pueda pasar el día hasta que regreses. Hay varias formas de lograrlo, pero la más sencilla es simplemente confinarlo en una habitación. Está de más decir que los baños, los armarios empotrados y otras habitaciones pequeñas no son la mejor opción.
Elige un dormitorio, un despacho o, mejor aún, el cuarto de la lavadora para que tu gatito pase el día. Crea un entorno seguro retirando de la habitación todo aquello con lo que el gatito pueda hacerse daño mientras juega, o que pueda destrozar si se pone muy travieso. Algunos ejemplos de objetos que debes retirar son jarrones y botellas de cristal, así como productos de limpieza con sustancias químicas peligrosas.
Ahora que has elegido el espacio donde tu gatito pasará el día, tendrás que darle algo con qué entretenerse. El hecho de haberlo encerrado en una habitación no significa que vaya a portarse bien por arte de magia solo porque hayas retirado los peligros. Deja una variedad de juguetes a su disposición. Sería una buena idea invertir en un rascador y una casita con estructura de escalada para la habitación del gatito. Esto le proporciona una salida para cualquier tendencia destructiva y, al mismo tiempo, le da una actividad (trepar) con la que mantenerse ocupado durante el día.
Si hay una ventaja de tener gatitos frente a cachorros de perro, es que los gatos pueden hacer sus necesidades en interiores sin (necesariamente) armar un desastre. Antes de dejar a tu gatito solo todo el día en su espacio seguro, lleva el arenero a esa habitación para que pueda usarlo cuando lo necesite sin ir a donde le plazca.
Además, no olvides dejar en la habitación los platos de comida y agua. Los gatos comen en pequeñas cantidades a lo largo del día, por lo que resulta difícil darles de comer justo antes de salir y esperar hasta que regreses. Deja un cuenco con pienso seco en la habitación para que tu gatito pueda picotear cuando tenga hambre. Es natural tener sed mientras se come, así que no te olvides de dejarle también un cuenco de agua.
Algunos de estos hábitos pueden cambiar a medida que tu gatito vaya creciendo. Sin duda, el paso más importante cuando se deja a un gatito solo en casa por primera vez es garantizar un entorno controlado. Los gatos adultos suelen comportarse bien con acceso a toda la casa. Sin embargo, los gatitos son revoltosos y propensos a las travesuras, por lo que sería un error dejarles más de una habitación para explorar durante tu ausencia.
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Comentarios(26)
This website is so much help I’m about to get a 8 week old kitten now I know what to do thank you
Me too! I’m so frightened to leave her when I get her, I feel as if I should take the week off work!
this is helped a lot but am getting a 9 week old kitten so worried about leaving it at home alone?
My 7 week old kitten is very rambunctious. I read some of these posts and it is very helpful.
I left my 9 week old kitten at home today in one room with all the items described above. I had to go back to work. He has had 4 days with me since I got him. I'll let you know tomorrow how it went! I left him for a couple of hours yesterday and he was fine.
How did it go? I just got mine 3 months old kitten two days ago. I have spent the last two whole days with him. Tomorrow I will have to leave her alone for 8 hours for the first time.
I live in a bachelor apartment and I’m nervous about leaving my new 8 week old kitten in the apartment by himself. Everything thing I read says to confine him into one room but the only room I would be able to do that with would be the bathroom and that doesn’t seem right.
Any suggestions?
I am fostering 3 abandoned ~8week old kittens and I don't have a spare room for them. So I bought a large playpen with a lid (google pet playpen) that I have had them in for the last 2 weeks while I'm at work or sleeping. They come out first thing in the mornings while I get ready for about an hour and then all night when I'm home from work.
My question is, is it OK to keep three 8week old kittens confined in the playpen for 8 hours while I sleep and then 9 hours while I'm at work?! They used to cry when I put them back in but now they don't even seem to mind... Of course it has a litter box, food, water, and lots of toys.
Thanks!
I would find it wrong. Kittens need attention. I have a kitten who’s 9 weeks and he likes to sleep with me and my fiancé. They need to be able to explore. Because when it comes time for someone to adopt them they will most likely run and hide in the new environment. They won’t want attention they will be scared and confused. Kittens need cuddles and to be played with not caged up 24/7. Your fostering them for a reason. If you can’t give them the attention that’s required find them a new foster home
If there's 3 they have each other to keep company and with
Update: I let them roam free at 9 weeks. They were extremely friendly and well socialized and one even learned to fetch!! Insta: @pawsome_kittens_check_meowt
But your comment really bothers me. Do you think every foster parent doesn't work and doesn't sleep and spends all day with them?! I hardly think the life they lived with me was worse than being abandoned, locked in their carrier with no food outside a dumpster.
@Lindsay - I agree 100%. That's silly to presume that every foster parent works from home, doesn't work or is retired. It's also basically stating that nobody that works can adopt a kitten because they have to stay home with it. I would think that as long as you had toys to keep them entertained and it was only for a little while until they got acclimated and your house kitten proofed, it would be just fine.
I feel im getting the separation anxiety, my kitten was rubbing on me since i slept in the kittens room. My wife sleep during the day and sleeps in the master bed
I feel bad going to work
I'm getting a kitten in 4 weeks. She'll be 11 weeks old. I really don't see the whole picture for what it's worth. I'm staying home for the first week about 9 days because kittens are use to having their sibblings around and people, so they don't know how to be alone or feel safe. If you can afford a pet sitter than that's a way to go too. That's what I'm trying to find is dmeone to watch her while I'm at work except they would be at my place for 6 hours and the kitten that will be alone for2 1/2 hours. Cause I clean house and it takes 2 1/2 hours so.do we still confine them to 1 room or leave them roam the house for this couple of hours?
Hewwò, My name is Skippy & I am 9 weeks + 1 day old. At first, whem my new mumy left me alone, I was too scared to. do anything, so I hid + went to sleep until she came home. She hadn't left me before & I think she had a harder time than I did. She bought me more toys & I fell in love with it. Now, I think I'll play on the guilt trip a bit longer to get more toys. hee, hee. When I really do get scared mumy cuddles me & if I "accidentally" knock something over, like the set-top box, I go into hiding for a little while. She even cuddles me for that. She told me that if I ever get sick not to get upset. She says its alright, that everyone gets sick. Im very happy shes my new mumy. Shes so gentle & makes me feel so safe, id feel guilty if i "accidentally" broke anything, esp. her computer. Those things have to go. It takes up too much of my cuddle time + since Im still very wittle, I need a lot of attn. If u leave us puddy tats good, water, bickies, a radio or the tv on, we will be very good. When we hear the tv or radio talking, we think there is someone home & it makes us feel safe. Personlwwy, I like soft gentle music. I dont like jazz. Birdies like that. I like soft music because it helps me to sleep, but I like people talking on tv or radio best. I liked it when mumy left me gor half an hr, then 1hr, then 2, etc. It helped me to get used to being by myself, with the tv or radio on. I do like the tv, esp uf its hot animals on. Puddy tat shows or movies are goid cause I can learn how to wapp mumy around my wittle claw. Just wemember that we luv u vewy much, esp if u dpoil us wotten & will be good wittle kittens. I hope dis helps u wit taking care of us. The spoiling us wotten is very important
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I have just gotten a new kitten, he is 10 weeks old. For the past 2 nights I have stayed with him almost constantly - I leave him around midnight in my livingroom downstairs and I go to my bed upstairs untill around 7am the next day. He has a comphy bed, fresh dry food, fresh water, clean litter tray and toys
I also have been leaving the Tele on for a little bit of noise and light - is this okay to do ? I worry as he is so young. Thanks
Do you need to leave a light on at night for a11 week old kitten or are they fine in the dark
Blu my kitten is appx. 2 months, we have never left him alone, he’s is a gift for 5 years of ‘issues’. We have a small indoor dog, Jax. They instantly became best buddies. I’m not comfortable leaving them alone for a 4 hours. I could take but most of it will be travel. Suggestions?
Hi there how did they do on there own. We have 7 week old who was abandoned and leave him in one room at night for 10 hours and will be leaving him for 9 hours while work when he is 9 weeks old. He will be okay yeah. I’m worried in some ways
I need help t remind me how to teach a kitten that it is being naughty how to train it to be nice and what claims a kitten down
I got a bengal kitten (8 wks old) n its been 4 days since n nows hes better settled. As soon as i leave the room... He meows a lot. I need to go to the shops tomorrow and back to work on 4th jan... Im having palpation thinking about leaving him tomorrow. Do you think it ok? He has everything mentioned
We got Fidget at 9 weeks old just over a week ago, and she has settled really well. We set her up with a kitten corner in the kitchen and I put one of my old t-shirts in the bed with her blanket as it had my scent on it, it makes her feel safe. There are plenty of toys as well and a scratching post
Plenty of fresh water, pouch food and dry food as well.
If I have to go out, I give her a big cuddle and a stroke then I put the radio on for her. She likes. 70s, 80s and 90s tunes the best. I then put her on her bed and tell her ill see her later, then go out. When I get back in, we have a 10 minute play and fuss and she is fine. I have left her for 4 hours at the most and there are no issues.
I am furloughed for about another 8 weeks so she will be just over 5 months old when I hopefully go back so that is why I do these things now.
My daughter left her adored and pampered 9-week old Scottish fold kitten alone in a safe and familiar environment for half an hour while running an errand. There was food and water in the usual place, as well as a clean kitty litter. When she returned, she found the kitten had peed in his bed. He kept hiding under the furniture and was looking and acting very miserable. For the next few hours, he was not responding to her cuddles and stroking, which he normally loves. It made my daughter feel very guilty and we wonder when the kitten will be ready to be left on his own for longer periods. What should be done differently?
Alot of questions here but there doesnt seem to be many answers except from the pretend kitten one (very good lol) I too am going to leave my 8 week kitten on her own for the first time tomorrow..I am going round the Living Room and kitchen to make sure there is noithing she can hurt herself on. I wonder if the couple of people here that left their kittne on there own...How did it go? Was she/he ok? How did she/he act towards you when you got home. Was your room in one piece ...Were they in one piece? It would be nice here how it all went.
Thank you
I rescued two 6 week old kitties a couple of weeks ago. And because they're so young, I made a safe space in basement bathroom with bed, water, food, kitty litter and toys. I also had a crate in living room where I bring them up for a little playtime. Gradually, I started letting them out the crate to play. They did well with their safe space in basement mostly Because there's two of them and they keep each other company. I Gradually started giving them more and more freedom. It's safe in basement and there's the cat climber so I started leaving the bathroom door open so they can roam. I leave the side indoor door open so they can see sunlight. 2 weeks later I now bring them upstairs and I let them roam, closing some doors to rooms but it's all monitored. I only go to work twice a week in office so that helps. At night time I still let them sleep in basement where the litter, food and water is. My plan is to keep one and rehome the other and that is where my problem may begin. Because I will have to change up some things. I don't know how I will work it with one kitty. I can't exactly let a 8 or 9 week old kitty completely roam. I can't keep in my room because it will need the litter. So I have to figure out before I separate them. I am guessing that maybe I wait till the kitty is 3 months before separating but I also do not want them to go through separation anxiety.
I adopted an 8 week old kitten 4 days ago. Before she arrived I asked the owner what brand of food she was eating and what brand of litter she was using so I could get her what she's been used to (I will slowly transition to more sustainable brands I would prefer her to use). When she arrived I had her set up in my living space with litter tray, food, water, comfy spots to rest and plenty of toys (tin foil balls are her fav.) She was very brave and curious straight out the crate. She was running about, playing, coming over for strokes etc! I anticipated her hiding under the sofa but she was not scared at all. She spent the night alone in the living space, albeit only a few hours as she arrived late and I stayed up playing with her for ages. The next day I stayed with her in the living space all day. That evening I took her into my bedroom to sleep, she slept through the whole night with me under the covers! In the morning I carried her back into the living space. After she ate some food I opened up the door to the hallway and went with her as she walked through to explore the hall and stairs. Later on, I encouraged her to watch as I moved her litter tray into the bathroom which she used in there straight away. Luckily, her arrival was all planned around the bank holiday weekend so I knew I had plenty of time to bond with her and settle her in.
I left her for an hour or so on day 2 only in the living space, then 5 hours on day 3 with the house open for her. I'm out the house for work 9 hours a day, 4 days a week. For the first day of me back at work I will keep her in the living space just to be sure she feels safe. With all these steps I have taken and understanding her personality, I believe she will be alright left while I'm at work. Hope this helps someone!
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