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Eight Weeks Is a Shelter Deadline, Not a Kitten's Biology. The Data Says 14.
The standard advice is that a kitten can leave mom at eight weeks. The largest study ever done on this says the aggression and the wool-sucking trace back to leaving too early, and that even 12 weeks is short. Here is the real timeline, and what to do when you can't wait.
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