* Cat Carrier with bed or towel (medium to large sized carrier is best)
* Final Payment Balance - cash or money order made out to Wendy Basham (NO personal cheques!) You can also pay in advance with email interac transfer.

* TICA registraion paper (Blue Slip )
* Royal Canin kitten food sample
* Corn litter (that we use)
* Vet records (vaccinations & spay/neuter papers)
* Microchip paperwork
* Insurance email
* the cat or kitten !! :)

As part of our contract if you have other pets you are required to separate your new kitten until it has been health checked by your veterinarion. We highly encourage that regardless if you have other pets, that you start your new kitten in one room. This room should be complete with food, water, litter, bed, toys and cat-tree (if possible). This allows your kitten a chance to easily find its amenities (avoid accidents!) and feel comfortable faster. It means you can go to bed, to work or other outings without worrying that your kitten will become lost in its new home and not know where their bathroom is!

You can then slowly introduce, supervised, your new kitten to the rest of the home. Allow the kitten to walk from its room to other locations so it can mentally 'map' out your house. The best time to introduce the kitten into the rest of the home is when they are feel comfortable and safe with you. So that when they are now allowed to roam a larger space they won't hide - they will trust in you when you talk to them.

Encourage and gain trust with your new kitten with canned food, toys and lots of pets, scratches, massages and kind words. If your kitten is hiding or shy don't be discouraged. It can take 2-4 weeks before a kitten is completely comfortable with its new home and its new family. Check out 'How to Pet a Bengal' for tips on getting your new kitty to love you!

Don't leave your kitten to hide the entire time, a mistake would be to let the kitten 'come out on it's own'. Take time several times a day to find the hiding kitten and scoop them up and pet them, talk to, feed and play with them. They will quickly learn that you are amazing and forget to be shy!

That said kittens are still babies so they do need some alone time to sleep and recharge their batteries just like us.

New kittens will often cry for the ride home and during the first week. They are calling to see if anyone they know is around for company. They will settle in and the crying with turn to conversation to their new family :)

We give 3 Way killed PCT vaccinations that cover for Panleukopenia, Calicivirus and Feline Viral Rhinotracheitis. We recommend continuing with Killed vaccines but talk with your vet with what is best.

Kittens are vaccinated at 8 and 12 weeks - this means they only require 2 boosters (not 3). Rabies can be given at the kittens first checkup or at a later date.

We feed Royal Canin products. We always have bowls full of dry food to allow the cats/kittens to eat when they are hungry. This prevents over-eating as they aren't worried that if they don't eat 'everything on their plate' they won't get to eat later.

We highly recommend feeding canned food in addition to dry kibble. Try different canned foods to see which ones your kitten likes. One kitten only needs a quarter of a small can per meal. You can feed canned food once or twice a day, but I recommend if you only feed once daily you do it in the evening (they turn into regular alarm clocks demanding breakfast if it's a morning feeding).

If you'd like to feed something other then Royal Canin we recommend slowly introducing the new food by mixing in with the Royal Canin over a few weeks.

We use clumping, compostable corn litter. There are a few corn-based litters now on the market including World's Best and Special Kitty. We recommend you start with this type of litter to ensure your kitten understands where his new bathroom is and then slowly mix in new litter over a few weeks if you want to use a different type.

We use litter boxes with and without lids. To start your litter box should NOT have a lid, this makes the litter box easy to find and less scary to use.

We highly recommend having a cat tree that's at least 3 feet tall with at least one level useable for a place for the cat to sleep. Cat trees are akin to cats as our bedrooms are to us. They will scratch and play and sleep on them. They recognize them as their own 'special place'.

They should be located in a place that the family occupies frequently, in a lower traffic area (ie a corner of a room vs right beside a busy hallway) and having it located near a window where they can bask in the sun is always a bonus!