Kitten and DC

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We are due to get a rescue kitten next week, the DC are very excited but DD is very sensitive and I’m worried about her getting hurt from scratches by the kitten.
I don’t want DD to not want to interact with kitten and end up disliking, so any advice or tips for how to handle please?

How old is DD? You can probably introduce slowly and stress the importance of going quietly and carefully to a new animal, and how the new kitten might already be frightened because to the kitten she's just getting taken away to a strangers home, and those strangers are huge and loud compared to kitty so it's even more scary, so it's very important to go quietly and gently.
Then show her how to let it sniff her etc before stroking. Over time she will learn, with your guidance, to read signals of when the kitten wants to be left alone to eat or rest, or when it wants to play.

I would strongly encourage you to get two kittens if you can afford it. They will play with each other and not try and take all their crazy kitten energy out on your hands and feet.

Kittens scratch and climb you and it hurts - we've had multiple kittens over the years (solo and paired) and the solos have always been far worse in terms of injury!

How old are your children though and are you fully fully 💯 with having a kitten/cat? I am woken by our cats and at night time there’s the whole ‘in/out’ thing! One of our cats does scrab and bite, and the kids are told she can’t sit behind them and if they’re down petting her it’s on their hunkers so she can’t get at them. You never know until they get to your house. I love them dearly as do the kids but it’s not easy

Dc are 12 and 8 so old enough to understand.
we are set on getting him as we’ve wanted a cat for a while and unless somebody else comes forward they won’t have a home for him but I dont think our budgets will stretch to 2 kittens unfortunately (and I don’t know anyone else with another kitten)

Ah that’s great! Best of luck op!!

Lots of distance play toys like feathers on sticks etc never let them use there hands to play teach them to go limp if they are stroking and the kitten latches on because pulling away obviously makes it more of a game and causes injury

She'll be fine unless she makes sudden movements when holding or v close to the kitten

Maybe let the kitten get to know her first from distance and vice versa

Just remember this baby cat has instincts, our fully grown 12 year old boy can still be unpredictable at times, they will always have their hunting instincts

I'll never forget when one of our's was a kitten and it ran up my leg, when I was wearing shorts