Thread: Habits and how to break them!

Hi & welcome..... Sorrry to say your first instincts were right that is far too young for even a normal kitten to be away from mum,from six weeks she is teaching her babes the niceties of life & it learns right & wrongs,it also starts to learn to socialise & this should be done with its litter mates.....
A good mainecoon breeder would not let their babes go until they have had both of their vaccinations done plus kept it a week to make sure there are no reactions to it so the earliest you should look to be getting your babe is 12 to 13 weeks......
He shouldn't arrive pretty much litter trained he should be fully trained & again that side of his life would have only just been starting,mum would have still been cleaning him up at that point too,I think you have hit the nail on the head that as he obviously wanted a pee at the point you put him on your bed his little brain is now associating it with being the right place & as hard as it seems as poor little fella should still be with mum I think the only way you will break it is for him to be shut up at night with his tray,could you leave one of the other cats with him, I always used to have a "nannie" cat that slept with my babes the first few nights so it didn't feel lonely before putting it into the big cats bedroom. Poor little mite I feel so sorry for him,he obviously is better with you & being loved but those type of breeders no matter what breed they have make me very cross as no way is that a good breeder at all,you should have pedigree papers with him but i would lay a bet that you haven't......!
With donnad though post some pictures of him so we can have an arrrh session.....xxx