Thread: 3 weeks today... eeek!

I think that well-bred, well-socialised kittens are easiest of all to settle in, especially if you have 2, as others have said.

I took the same approach as Jackie - didn't confine them to any room, but started them off upstairs with their own food and litter tray there. But by the end of the second day, Herbie had explored the whole house and was using the 3 main trays in the cellar along with the big boys. He was (still is) very curious and confident and wanted to explore as much as he could.

Ours is quite a noisy house what with music and a big piano, and Herbie wasn't used to that so he would sometimes jump at an unfamiliar loud noise and make a run to hide away, like in his kitten tunnel or cardboard box or behind the washing machine (put a stop to that with a housebrick!)

So my tip would be to make sure your kittens have somewhere safe to run to and hide, so if they get frightened they can hide away safely. You don't want them lurking under the kitchen units or floorboards if you can help it! If you are ordering lots of new stuff for them, hang on to a couple of the boxes, they will do the job nicely.