Talk:Kitten/Archive 1

message: I tried the 1940 film called The Milky Way makes this stub aslo it was not cause  of "The free little kittens" but it cause to much cat movies of that. That cause :Category:MGM cartoons or that category stub was the archive real. Became as the cat movie still no just this. But the cat movie is so hard. Kept me for the cat movies such as well. Unknown to catch the previews of the films. Just the Milky way kept for my kittens well go up in the sky or I will cry. But the 1 is my fault. Who goes with kittens are free.--69.219.229.227 (talk) 19:36, 13 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[The Milky Way]] 

message: This is kind of real stub of kittens. They can do stuff of that. If you have a kitten. You should take care of that. But they are completed archives. Such as this archive was completed for 9 mintues. Just display that kind of that message it taked me. All this was complete this archive. New stub. You can take care of a cat.--69.219.229.227 (talk) 19:36, 13 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  No real summbions 

message: I am ambivalent about the old (les chatons sont tros vraiment cute!)meme reference in this section that the below poster complains about.  However, I do have a real criticism:
The line "here are good evolutionary reasons to expect humans to find juvenile humans, and perhaps juvenile animals in general, cute." should definitly either expound on the alluded-to "good reasons", or at the least link to somewhere in wikipedia where these reasons are enumerated and explained.
-B. McGrauw (not logged in)
*Puppies are cute.   —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.147.15.5 (talk) 19:41, 28 November 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, it's interesting. It's written in a neutral point of view. And as regards verifiability, if 'kittens are cute' isn't common knowledge, then I don't know what is. So yes, I for one think it's encyclopaedic. --Sam Blanning (formerly Malthusian) ( T | C | A ) 18:13, 18 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Perceptions of cuteness 

message: In the last sentence of the introduction, it's stated that a group of domesticated kittens is called a "kindle." Exactly one sentence later, we read about a "litter" of kittens. Is "kindle" widely used?  Joyous! | Talk 22:46, 30 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: A litter is a group of kittens who were all born at the same time to the same mother.  A kindle is any group of kittens.  -- Vary | Talk 22:51, 30 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Contradiction? Or perhaps I'm misreading... 

message: Since this article is protected (understandably so, as I can see from prior topics here) I cannot change it myself, and I'm not registering to do it when other users can. However several facts here are unsourced and have been for at least several days now. At this point they need to be removed, and not put back up until someone can link to a verifiable, reliable source. Right now they are either original research or personal opinion, neither of which belongs in an encyclopedia article. Given the wealth of information in both book form, internet form, and pamphlets and other information avaliable from respectable animal care organizations on this subject there is no reason any claim or 'fact' should be unsubstantiated especially in regard to care but also in other sections.
Where did this "up to six weeks of age" nonsense come from?  Not is it wrong as far as I'm concerned, it contradicts the rest of the article, which talks about kittens up to a year of age.
:I've just noticed this statement. I'm sorry about adding references to this without consulting people. I see the uncited statements are not related in any way to the reason the page was semi-protected, so are these changes OK with the other editors here? I could revert my additions if anybody objects. Tim Vickers 22:33, 2 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Hi there. OK I removed the "up to 6 weeks" claim, as the linked dictionaty def. merely claims they are young cats. I doubt there is a firm line between kitten and cat, and people are bound to use the term slightly differently around the world. Are there any other concerns? Thanks Tree Kittens 03:25, 4 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Hey, how could anyone object to adding references? Looks tip-top to me... Tree Kittens 03:27, 4 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Citation Issues 

message: Could someone please replace :Image:Day-old kittens.jpg with an image with a bit more contrast?  Those look just like cottonwood fuzz and oil stains on asphalt without my glasses.  Thank you. ←BenB4 10:32, 26 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I've cropped it and altered the levels a bit. Tim Vickers 16:43, 26 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  I don't like Image:Day-old kittens.jpg 

message: Young rabbits are also sometimes known as kittens. "Kits" is probably more common, but (for example) Watership Down refers to them as "kittens" throughout. 86.143.48.124 14:20, 5 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: This should definitely be mentioned somewhere, if only as a link to rabbit at the top of the page.–MDCollins (talk) 23:54, 15 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rabbits 

message: I'm surprised that this article doesn't mention "kitten piles", i.e. the habit of litters of kittens to sleep in a large "pile". (presumably to conserve heat)  I'd add information myself but I have no idea where I could find some citable sources for the info; the only knowledge I have of this is firsthand from several litters of kittens. -- Y|yukichigai (ramble argue check) 01:33, 17 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  No mention of "kitten piles"? 

message: Why in this article, rather than Feral cat? Tim Vickers 01:44, 17 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Stray cat section 

message: In the sentence "Kittens should not be fed cow's milk because it does not provide all of the necessary nutrients and cats are lactose intolerant" the word "most" should be added before cats. Not all cats are lactose-intolerant, just most of them.
Thanks
Penguinface 18:13, 1 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Could you find a reference for that? Than I could add that to the article. Thanks. Tim Vickers 18:49, 1 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Another small error 

message: I've removed this. See  -- Kendrick7talk 02:20, 7 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  lactose intolerance 

message: The article currently says that "groups of domestic kittens are referred to as kindles", citing an article in Time Magazine.  However, the Oxford English Dictionary labels that usage as "obsolete", and indeed the latest quotation they have for it is from 1688.
Webster's Third lists it as "now dialect".
I've removed the sentence from the article.  --mconst (talk) 20:22, 30 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  A kindle of kittens 

message: I translated this item to Korean language for the Korean Wikipedia. Please add the link( http://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/새끼_고양이 )  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Podor (talk • contribs) 00:41, 26 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Add a Korean link 

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This image is not good enough quality for the article, it has poor exposure, motion blur and out of focus. Tim Vickers (talk) 18:00, 14 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Blurry photo 

message: I think it should be included in the main article around what time kittens are able to move on from their mother's milk onto kitten food. Artemisboy (talk) 21:53, 5 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Weaning 

message: Could someone please add  after 'A kitten opens its eyes for the first time.' on the second image? The chances of the kitten happening to be outdoors and staring into a camera on the instant of it opening its eyes for the first time ever seems a trifle unlikely...  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.70.156.254 (talk • contribs) 20:37, 8 October 2010
:---actually the chances that a kitten just BAM all the sudden opens both eyes is slim, this note should be removed entirely, the eyes slowly open over the course of a few days to a week, sometimes one opening at a faster rate than the other even. I suggest the caption be changed to "kitten with partially opened eyes" since in that pic , the eyes are not "open(ed) for the first time" nor are they fully opened.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Aen13 (talk • contribs) 16:27, 11 April 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Adding content - semi protected article 

message: The etymology of "kitten" is wrong. It came from Old French chitoun, which was the diminutive of chat cat. It is not an Old English diminutive at all.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.1.172.2 (talk) 03:47, 11 July 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: You are quite right: the OED gives this etymology, and does not give any occurrence before Middle English either.  The OED does not comment on whether "chitoun" was a diminutive, so we can't really include that. I've corrected the article. Richard New Forest (talk) 08:35, 12 July 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: thanks for the clarification 70.26.148.198 (talk) 03:59, 24 July 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: The OED does not mention it for "cat" or "kitten", but under "cattle" it mentions that the Parisian French word began with "ch" and the Norman French equivalent with "c", this being the source for the English word "cattel" (while Parisian French is the source for the related word "chattel").  If this also applies to "kitoun" and "cat", perhaps these too came through Norman French.  Richard New Forest (talk) 09:32, 24 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Etymology of kitten