Cedar Creek Kennels & Kittens

Our Goal

is to bring into your family, another member. That is why we work extra hard at socializing all our kittens. I think most people do not really understand the critical  importance of the window of socialization that lasts only from 2 weeks to 7 weeks of age.

It has been established by Eileen Karsh that the window of the sensitive period for habituating kittens to people is from two weeks to seven weeks. Cats handled regularly during this time were prepared, when older, to stay on someone’s lap longer and approach people more readily. Cats that were handled after this period, that is from weaning on wards, behaved no differently from cats that had not been handled at all. …All too often, as young kittens they will not have been handled regularly. Brought into new homes where they are the focus of attention they receive lots of handling, yet it seems this will not socialize them as well as the little time spent each day before weaning.