Week 2: Starting to explore!

 

Kitten Watch 2024: Caramel and her sweet kittens

In their second week of life, the kittens are starting to take their first steps and get to know the world around them a bit more! By now, all their eyes are fully open and their ears are uncurled. The ears are still very small and round compared to what they will look like when the kittens are a bit bigger.

Open eyes! All kittens wiggling around starting to explore.

Did you know? All kittens are born with blue eyes, which is because of lack of pigment in the iris. Within their first few weeks to months of life, a pigment called melanin is distributed throughout the iris, which causes the eyes to change colour. Usually this happens in both eyes, but if the cat has heterochromia, melanin is only distributed in one iris. This leaves the other iris blue. You can find out more about some interesting cat eye facts on the Cats Protection website here.

Cinnamon (female) and Coban (male) playing together - don't they both look so much like their mum!

Little Costa, one of the male kittens.

And now for a special treat! We have a short video to show you, of the kittens cuddling with Caramel and wiggling around - learning how to use their legs and paws!

We will continue to follow the kittens' progress on this blog over the next few weeks, right up until they and their mum are ready to go to their forever homes!

Please note, these blog posts are not in real time, the kittens are a little bit older at the time of writing. However, we hope you enjoy following along with their weekly development from day one. You will get to see how they grow, change and blossom into lovely young cats with the support of their amazing mum, Caramel, and our dedicated team of cat care staff and volunteers here at Wales Cat Centre.

 

If you would like to donate towards the care for our cats, including those like Caramel and her kittens, you can do so on our website here. Anything you can give, big or small, can really make a difference. Thank you for being here for cats 💜

 

See you next week for Kitten Watch: Week 3! 🐾