Choosing Your First Pet Cat

When you go to chooose the latest addition to your family you need to do an overall assesment of your cat or kitten to make sure that you are bringing home a healthy happy cat that will fit with your overall family. Here are our top tips and things to look for when choosing your first cat or kitten.

1) Environment.
Check the environment, it should  be clean and it should be where the kittens or cat have been raised or live. Look for plenty of cat toys, also look at how the owner, breeder or shelter staff interact with the cats in general.

2) Character
Kittens should be energetic and more than anything else playfull. A well socialised cat should be curiouse to come up to meet you, pay attention to how any cat or kitten enteracts with other people, childern or animals as this will be a good indication of how the cat will behave in your home.

3) Health
You will need to do a physical assesment of your cat to determin if they are healthy. Firstly are the eyes bright? Does the cat look healthy and the right weight? Is the coat clean, soft and shiny?  How does the skin look? Are the ears Clean? Is its nose Moist? Is its gait normal? Do the Teeth and Gums look Healthy? All these questions should be answered before you bring your cat or kitten home.

4) Paperwork
Finally you will need to make sure you get al lof the right paperwork for your new pet. A breeder should offer you registration documents along with a receipt. Shelters will normally provide you with vaccination as well as saying or neutering paerwork. Even if you are taking a pet from a friend or a private person you should get details fo any treatments, vaccinations etc and ideally the contact details for their vet, so you can contact them to check on any procedures.

If you apply all of the above you will be well on your way to choosing the perfect kitten or cat.