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Introducing Your Bengal Kitten To Your Home

Your QuantumCats Bengal Kitten will Come

When you come to Pickup your Bengal Kitten, you will be Given the Following

Your Bengal Kittens TICA registry paperwork "Blue Slip" where you can choose their registered name. This also gives you the ability to order their 5 generation pedigree directly from TICA
Signed QuantumCats Contracts which include all of the Health Guarantees
Copies of the individual kittens Health Records including the Health and Genetic testing information of their parents (if not already emailed, you can recieve printed copies)
Raw Food portions
Scent Soaker Blanket/Item
Toy and Teether
QuantumCats Kitten Care Guide
Product Recommendations and Resources
Health Information
Raw Feeding Information
Natural Rearing Information
Unlimited Lifetime Support from QuantumCats
Cat Carrier if requested

Helping your Bengal Kitten Transition Smoothly Into Your Home

When you come to pickup your Bengal Kitten, he or she will be leaving everything they have ever known. The companionship of their siblings, the warmth and love of their mama, the familiarity of this home they have been raised in, the sounds of our voices that they are used to. Even the most outgoing kitten will be a bit shellshocked once they are placed in the carrier and go off with you into the car, which to them is like a big scary dinosaur with all the vibrations. They won’t have the familiarity of their family for comfort.

They will have been taken in our car multiple times but it is still a big thing, and they can sense what’s going on. Expect lots of meowing and give as much comfort as you can. If you can have extra family members come during the pickup to comfort them, that will really help. You can open the top of the carrier and give little pets and say sweet things. I recommend keeping them in the carrier because they can get spooked and start climbing all over your car, potentially under the foot pedals. Say their name in your sweet voice and calm them as best as you can with relaxing energy, and even relaxing gentle music.

Tell them how much you love them and how well cared for they will be, how excited you are to have a new family member! This is your little baby and give them all your love – especially during this transition.

Transition Safe Room

Before bringing your Bengal Kitten home you need to have set up a safe room for them to adjust in. We have a mandatory 3 day quarantine so be sure its a completely sanitary room that’s been deep cleaned and thoroughly Bengal Cat Proofed, all nooks and crannies closed off. Make sure no other house pets have access to this room. A small bathroom is a great place for this adjustment period. You want this room to have their litterbox, toys, a cat scratcher, cat bed, a few toys, food, water, mats, and their cat carrier. Be sure to choose a permanent spot for their litterbox in this room, always keep their boxes in the same places you put them in the first place. This litterbox is essential to their relationship to your home.

Once you are bringing your kitty home, go straight to their safe room. Do a double take and make sure again that there’s nothing they can get into. Set down the carrier and decompress yourself. Show your baby Bengal Kitten your face, voice, and fingers through the cracks. Show them you mean no harm. No fast movements, no loud noises, no energetic disturbances. Make eye contact and give them a slow soft blink, or a few. Its best if you introduce your children to your bengal kitten much later in this process, wait at least a few days if not more. You want to establish a secure relationship with your Bengal Kitten first, so that they trust you, feel safe with you, and can then be exposed to your excited children – which they will be a little cautious of at first.

Open the carrier and give a little space. Use your fingers or a little feather toy to try and trail them out of their carrier. You don’t want to pull them out, you want them to gain the courage to come out on their own.

Mix up a little fresh raw food and water for them, use your fingers to splash the water a bit showing them its there and deliciously ready for them. If they don’t run to the food mat, put the dish right outside the carrier and wait. Give them some good ear and chin scratches and just be patient. Once they come out, let them explore, give them rubs when they walk by you.

You can then pick them up and place them in the litterbox. Take their paws and paw the litter, showing them this is where we go potty. You should have the same litter we use for them, the pine pellets from a feed store. Let them exit the litterbox on their own, this helps them remember where to go and better orients them to the room. Play with them a bit, trailing the toy across the perimeter of the safe room. Sit down on the floor and let them explore your body. Give lots of pets and rubs, saying sweet things, including their name.

You ideally want to stay with them for a full play-eat-poop-groom-sleep cycle. Get them interested in their food and water, and stay with them. After they eat, they will more than likely go pee or poo, and then settle down for a nap, starting to groom themselves. Participate in this grooming session and use your knuckles and fingers gently rubbing their ears, chin, cheeks, and body – even their paws.

This is a major time to bond and establish trust and closeness. This is what their mama and siblings would do together. Establishing this connection secures a wonderful relationship for you both. Once they are falling asleep, you can leave them in the room to nap alone, tending to your children and home. Check back in 2 hours and offer more raw food. If they start to meow before then, come back in and spend more time with them. The most time you can spend with them, the better. This is the purpose of this room, to help establish a safe loving trusting relationship, and to establish a proper relationship with their litterbox in this new environment.

You should have their veterinary appointment for their wellness check already booked for within the first 3 days of picking up your Bengal Kitten. Be sure no other cats or dogs can get anywhere near the room, and always change your entire outfit before you come in, limiting their exposure to the germs of your home and other animals.

Introducing Your Bengal Kitten to your Existing Pets

You want your kitten to get used to the house and it’s surroundings with as little environmental stresses as possible (dogs outside, low calm noises and energy, etc) Feed your kitten as much as they will eat, typically it’s about every few hours, a small portion of raw.

After they have had their vet appointment confirming good health and are past the 3 day quarantine, you can begin to bring in items that have your other animals scents on them. Toys, a bed, anything with their scent. Also take items that have been in the safe room with your new bengal kitten and place them with your other animals, so that they become accustomed to their scent as well – before actually meeting. This will help their introduction overall. Since they will already be familiar with each others scents, they should adjust beautifully and bond quicker with each other.

After about 2 weeks and there has been a plenty of scent exchanging and under the door meetings, if your bengal kitten is exhibiting confidence in their safe room, using the litterbox appropriately, eating and drinking well and showing a connection and trust with you – truly starting to bond with you – its time for the next step.

You can now begin to guide your Bengal Cat through exploration in the other areas of the house, one by one. During the initial few home explorations, you can keep your dog outside so that kitty doesnt get spooked. They will have been raised with our dog, but in a new environment and for the first few home explorations, keeping the dog outside is best. The introduction of your new bengal kitten with your existing pets will set the stage for their relationships for the rest of their lives. This is why you really want to take things slow, following the cues of all parties involved.

Use a feather or string toy to trail your bengal kitty around. If baby kitty is fixated enough on playing with the toy, they wont even realize they are in a big new scary environment, and will only have feelings of confidence and excitement as they explore for the first time. They may look up every once in a while and roam around things but continue to use the toy to get them familiar with all areas and surroundings. If you have a big house you will want to break this up into segments so they dont get overwhelmed and find a place to hide.

Once they have ran around the perimeters of your main living spaces, trail the toy back to their safe room, ending the experience on a positive note with a fresh bowl of yummy raw food. Lots of cuddles, pets, and rubs after they eat, finishing their play-eat-groom-sleep cycle together again. The next day, do the same thing, and you can do this multiple times a day if you have that time. But back to the safe room afterwards. Taking it nice and slow this way ensures your bengal kitty feels confident and safe in their new living environment, and prevents potty accidents as well. Make sure home explorations are kept to about 15 minutes, so that your new Bengal Kitten does not get overwhelmed.

The safe room serves multiple purposes, between preventing the spread of infectious disease and fulfilling your part of the 3 day quarantine for the health guarantee – it also helps form a safe space for you and everybody in your family to have a room where you can bond, developing a trusting, secure relationship. This room also helps your kitten continue their proper litterbox manners, decompress in this new environment having left everything they have ever known, and gives them the opportunity to meet your other fur family after the dust of this new transition has settled.

Following your Bengal Kittens cues, it may not take them very long at all to transition into your home. Still, keep them in the safe room for a minimum of 2 weeks. Continue the process of exploring with a toy and placing baby kitty back in their safe room.

Make sure that when you do home explorations and when you start to leave your Bengal kitten out and about during the day, that all the litterboxes have a little bit of their scent in them already. Take a scoop of urine soaked pellets and a little poo and place it in each box so they can follow that scent and know exactly where to go. Also place them directly inside the boxes, and take their paws and dig a little in each box, getting them used to the feeling of going in that spot, and then let them hop out on their own so they can be familiar with it’s placement in each room.

After your kitten has had plenty of experiences each day of these supervised explorations, you can then let them free range if they are showing all the ready signs. Keep the door slightly open and let them come out on their own. You can use a toy to get them to confidently follow you to their cat tree.

If you have other pets, make sure they have had two weeks at least of scent exchanges and under the door meetings. Carefully watch how they are interacting to determine if both are ready for face to face meetings! Be sure to shower each animal with love, your existing animals are rightful to be weary of this new being in their sacred living space. Honor this and give them lots of love, rubs, cuddles, and reassuring sweet words. Even if there is hissing and growling – which is to be expected (these are territorial animals we are talking about) continue to use calming tones and relaxing pets for everyone involved.

If one party isnt ready, take it as slow as they are needing, utilizing the safe room as a safe space your new bengal kitten can decompress in while your existing pets come to terms with the new addition.

What you are looking for, is for your bengal kitten to become confident in each room, using all litterboxes offered (and nowhere else) eating meals in the kitchen with the family, not hiding under things, not running from your other house animals, etc. Once all of your animals are super friendly with one another, you can start to leave kitty freely in the home overnight and through the day. If theres any litter accidents at all bring your bengal kitten back to their safe room and start over.

Leave everything that has been in the safe room, in the safe room, for many months while your kitten is adjusting to your home. This way if they need to, they can always have their space away from the hussle and bussle of your day to day. You may want to use this space at nighttime to put your bengal kitten to bed, so that they dont get into things they shouldnt while they are young and rambunctious.

They get wild bursts of energy at night and its up to you whether or not you want to get woken up at 3am to a broken lamp, or picture frame! This is why bengal cat proofing is essential. Their Bengal Kitten energy is unlike any other cat breed!