When Can a Kitten Urinate on Its Own?

Video Transcript

"Let's talk about when can kittens urinate on their own. Kittens when they're newborn cannot eliminate, defecate or urinate that is, on their own. The queen mother or mother cat will have to do that for them. So generally what happens is the newborn will nurse and then the mother will groom them or lick them under their tail, and by doing this that stimulates these newborn kittens to be able to urinate and defecate on their own. The process of doing that on their own actually is later; somewhere between 2 or 3 weeks of age these kittens are going to start urinating on their own and they don't have to be stimulated to do so. After that as far as inside cats or domesticated cats are concerned, they start to want to look toward litter boxes that is. So what you can do is use a hand full of litter in an area on newspaper or something like that, and when kittens are about 4 weeks of age they're going to start becoming curious about that and cats naturally want to urinate and defecate in something like soil and bury it sometimes; so litter works very well for that. As they get a little bit older, you know after 4 weeks to 6 weeks is when they can start figuring out what litter is for as pretty much instinct on these guys a lot of times when they're that age they will generally go right to these litter boxes have an affinity for it and go ahead and urinate on their own and the rest is history."