It’s quite easy to raise a cat. Five items are essential: cat food, a small bowl, cat litter, a litter box, and a litter scoop. Optional items include cat toys, a cat tree, a cat teaser, cat treats, and cat cans. If you’re lazy, you don’t have to buy any of them.
Be mentally prepared. After raising a cat, you may encounter situations like damage to clothes, pants, sofas, and various paper products; bitten shoelaces, headphone cords, network cables, various electrical wires and other string-like things; and fragile items such as flowerpots and water glasses becoming inevitably broken. It is recommended that you store these things properly or take protective measures.
When it’s a kitten, it may, out of curiosity, swallow everything it can, including but not limited to ear studs, small buttons, parts of plants, flies, mosquitoes and other small insects, which may then lead to its discomfort or even endanger its life. You need to take it to the vet in time.
At the same time, they love all things that can make sounds on their own, including but not limited to plastic bags, tape, curtain pendants, metal chains, etc. Especially in the middle of the night, it can be really noisy. If your living space is small / you have few rooms / or you even have to sleep in the same room with the cat, you may need to work on your grumpiness when getting up.
These are all the negative situations I can think of. Certainly, not all of them will occur with one cat, so don’t worry too much.
Take it to the pet hospital for a physical examination, vaccination, and deworming after it’s two months old. You can bathe it after it’s three months old. It’s best to take it to a pet store and have a professional do it. You can consider neutering it after it’s nine months old.
Don’t take it out before it’s one year old to prevent it from getting an upset stomach, catching diseases or getting injured. If you want to take it out to play after it’s one year old, prepare a cat bag and a suitable leash. Unlike dogs, all cats will run away if you let go of them.
You don’t have to spoil, pamper or coddle it and treat it like an ancestor, but you must be responsible for it.
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