Hi Roger. Your email address suggests that you are in the northern hemisphere where it is still summer. If so, the cats should be able to handle the wet weather. Additionally, if the cats are feral, they won’t be catchable without great stress to them and injury to you.

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Hi Tracy. Spaying or neutering can be done any time from 12 weeks onwards, but if you delay until after six months of age the females will come into season and the males will start showing tomcat behaviours, neither of which are desirable. The best flea control depends on the country you live in, but I personally use either Revolution or Revolution Plus.

Hi Roj. At this age, diarrhoea can be caused by many things – at least they will be: intestinal worms, inappropriate foods (especially milk), bacterial or protozoan infections. Read more about feline diarrhoea here.

Hi Saky. Its of such paramount importance that your kitten does not think of any bed as a toilet that I would take drastic steps. For the sake of letting her be able to sleep on your bed in the future, I would stop doing it for a while until the habit of going to the litter tray every single time is so deeply ingrained that you can be sure she will get off to do it. This is always the key to successful toilet training in cats – when it goes well it’s automatic, when it doesn’t go well it’s very hard to change unless you act quickly to prevent a habit from forming.

Hi Leonard. Good question! It’s not as important with cats to choose the sexes as it is to choose the personalities, which of course is hard with kittens. Some cats don’t enjoy the company of others, and problems mainly occur when very outgoing, typically male cats live with anxious, shy cats, typically female. Therefore, if you can’t get similar personalities, I think getting two of the
same sex works best, which is very unlike dogs. Having said this, kittens who grow up together generally get on well with each other regardless so it’s more of a problem with unrelated cats.