Rescue Kittens Explore Their Litter Box For the First Time! 

They got some real food and became hyper from all the energy. They're so sweet

They're growing so fast! Couple of things : It's normal for kittens to get the "meat shakes" when they first start eating food. Also, the type of litter you got is safe for them to eat. Kittens are curious and often try to eat their litter in the beginning. The sand kind you got before isn't the best for kittens because it can make them sick if ingested.

Don’t worry about the shivering, kittens this age are still figuring out how to be a cat, so I imagine it’s a mixture of excitement cause they loved the food and because they don’t know how to work they’re land legs yet lol. Mine did this as well when I started feeding her wet food but now she eats it slowly and without the excited tail shakes lol

Wish people sent updates on past puppies/kittens that got adopted. Would love to see what they look like now!

Joe: i hope they don't like this food because I don't want to open another can Kitties: love it!! Such a typical kitty reaction 😹😹

I have found that gently pressing their bums a couple of times into the litter helps get them started. This was probably the best choice of litter. I've heard that clumping sand litter can be lethal for kittens because they often eat it, and then it forms an obstruction in their abdomen. These kitten (and puppy and vlogging) videos are so heartwarming! With all the bad stuff in the news, it's much better for the soul to come to this channel instead and watch this kind of content. Thank you, Joey! 💜

The kittens trembling when eating new food for the first time is perfectly normal. As I understand it, the trembling happens when their bodies are struggling to process all these new sensations and tastes. Plus, I'd like to think it means they're really excited :D

Vibrating as you put it is normal. They’re happy!

You should have 2 bowls so the others can eat more spaced out.

hi joey! You might want to continue to add new things into their area, like different textured surfaces, like aluminum foil or a stretch mat, and maybe some physical challenges like elevations or teetering activities. It can really help not only stimulate their minds but make them more confident!

Yes kittens and joey…….heaven oh no they will love that food as soon as you said yuk!

My kittens didn't like the pellets and ended up pooping under the sofa. We switched to "no clump" clay or sand. It's important to use "no clump" because sometimes Kittens can instinctively try to eat the litter. The clumping litter, if eaten can cause serious illness to the kittens.

We got my cat that same kind of liter and it didn’t turn out well. She had eaten some when we weren’t with her. She got really sick and she was in a lot of pain. The vet bill was over $3,000 to make sure she was okay, flush it out of her system, and make her feel 100% again. I would suggest something like Pretty Litter instead. I would hate to see those poor kitties get sick 🥺❤️

Joeys kindness reaches far further than just to his rescues. Thank you Joey for always bringing us joy. I still remember watching you back in the Sawyer days. You are truly one of a kind.💚✌🏻

A tip: You can try to put a layer of non-clump clay litter on top of the pellets so that it feels like something they should poop in. Set each kitten on the litter and take each front paw and scratch at the surface so they feel what it is like to scratch at the litter and hopefully go. Pellets don't feel like the dirt or sand that they instinctually want to poop in.

I’m recovering from a bad car accident and your videos are really bringing me healing energy and so much joy. Thank you for spreading your light on this world and all of the adorable little kittens! ❤

I used to put the mom in the litter box so she could teach them how to use it!

Them on the hammock was the best 😊 Made my day.

for anyone wondering, here is joey's animal list (in chronological order): - Wolf (male husky, rescued from craigslist (?) as puppy) - Storm (male husky, white, adopted from a rescue as puppy, lives w Daniel) - Lark (female husky/german shepherd mix, adopted from a rescue as puppy (?), lives w Daniel's mother) - Lark had babies (accident at doggy daycare)! seven of them (Red, Teal, Lavender, Pink, Yellow, Green, Blue) - Moon (male husky, kept one of lark's babies-Teal) - Shadow (male husky, J&D tried to keep Lark's baby Red, but Moon & Shadow struggled with littermate syndrome so Shadow was rehomed like the others) - Sakura (black female pregnant rescue cat) (kept her) - Sakura's kittens, the zodiac litter (Gemini, Taurus, Aquarius, Aries, Leo, Sagittarius) - Azula (female foster cat, was pregnant but lost the litter) - Hen (foster mama from junkyard) - junkyard pups (Duck, Goose, Shark, Otter, Bear, Moose) - foster mama dog Roo - Roo's litter (Hare, Tiger, Bison, Panda, Raccoon, Monkey) - Daenerys (white foster mama kitty) - D's kitties, the Greek Goddess litter (Athena, Persephone, Aphrodite, Nemesis, Rhea) - took care (for a couple of days) of a mama duck and her 9 babies that wandered into his backyard and got stuck - May (foster mama husky) - May's babies, the Months litter (January, February, March, April, June, July, August, September, October, November, December) - Coco (husky foster mama pt2, false pregnancy, surrogate to Disney pups) - husky babies abandoned in box (Disney litter--Copper, Pluto, Bolt, Scar, Bruno, Darla) - Daisy (husky foster mama pt3) - Daisy's babies (flower/tree litter; Goldie, Lilly, and Daphne didn't make it; Ash, Cyprus, Oren) - Lacey/Onyx (black & white foster kitty mamma) - Lacey/Onyx's kittens, gem litter (Opal, Pearl, Peridot, Flint, Mica, Jasper) - 4 blind Frenchies (Mike Wazowski, Baby Jack-Jack, Linguini, Lea Michele) *Montana/Monty (female golden retriever) is often in videos; she is Daniel's (Joey's ex) dog, but often comes to Joey doggy daycare *the babies are usually adopted by other people (other than Moon) and then renamed! some of them have instagrams and have shared their new names/stories, but I'm not including those here *I first created this list a long time ago and add to it every time Joey takes in a new animal...because I have it saved I just copy/paste it onto every (I try, but it's more like "most") animal-related video he posts, so no, it actually doesn't take a lot of my time or effort. I just like lists. Thank you to everyone who is giving thanks about the amount of effort though haha!

You should buy them a mini cat tree kittens would love that they love to climb and need to be kneeding on things for their claws

They just love the "stinky" food. Used to gag me. I would put on a glove and put some on my fingers to introduce them to wet good - dry heaving the whole time - LOL. Good advice to scrape their little paws in the litter - after 2 days you will be amazed. They learn from each other. Love them all!!

Aww I love them

the kittens huddling up near the end made me actually cry from how cute it was. 😭😭😭

I love their lil meows when they see you, they are the sweetest 💗

When you put the kittens in the litter box take their front paw and scratch at the litter. It will show them and their natural instincts will kick in. Thank you for doing this and saving all these babies and mamas. Love you

You are such a great young man! Your animal voices are healing my depression.

Kittens get the meat shakes the first time they eat meat usually. Nobody really knows why. It’s perfectly normal. You’re not overloading them or anything.

These kittens are the cutest! I remember both my cats when they were kittens, they had trouble transitioning to cat food. I had to water down the can foods, and spoon feed them. Also the older brother always ate his younger brother food, that is also why I spoon feed them. And for the litter, I used the sand it was a clumsy type of sand, and what work for me, I put a small amount at a time . I even put in the box to show them that’s where you go, and I used to with the scooper, dig at the litter or I used their paw and helped them dig. And when they mastered the litter I changed to that paper beaded litter. And when they got to age of 18 years old, I used to find younger cat sleeping in the litter. He was weirdo lol😊

The kittens bring me so much joy!!! Just remember to not let the food and the litter box too close together, cause cats do not like to poop near to where they eat

Omg the kittens are so adorable 🥰

they shake when they eat cuz they're enjoying it and the reason why they're probably running all over to places they have more energy cuz they ate actual Kitty food

They are getting so playful!

These babies are sooo adorable.

Hi Joey!! While im early I just wanted to tell you how much I love your commitment to fostering. Thank you and your work on RU-vid and also with Wagmor is greatly appreciated!

flint is so flipppin cute

2:53 the T-REX ARMS 😭💗 They're too precious!!!

Those kitties pull at your heartstrings!!!❤

Move their little paws while in the litter box as a digging motion and most of the time they get it right away that it’s what you want them to do and catch on and do it theirselves.. I’ve fostered kittens 3 times so far 3 different litters all 3 kittens.. it’s weird because the first two litters were easily potty trained and this last set of 3 only one is potty trained and the 2 others just go in corners and on puppy pads I have laid out

The dim kitten who kept eating the litter is soo cute

Joey, usually when kittens shake/vibrate/tremble it means they either have low or high body temperatures, an illness, or low blood sugar. Another reasons is that they might just be nervous. Anyways love ya Joey. And tell the kitties we love em too. 🧡

I’m fostering kittens because of him!!!!

The one spazing out in the litter box was NOT pearl. You can tell the difference easy by the nose. Pearl has a slightly off center gray spot spilling over and opals is perfectly aligned.....

Pearl has a wider and darker patch on her nose than Opal, its easier to tell them apart now.

5:28 this part was so funny 😂

Have you tried taking some dry kitten food and mixing in some goat’s milk? The milk will soften the dry food and also entice the kittens to eat 😊

I CANNOT take the cuteness of these babies ☺️❤️

Kittens shaking when eating wet food for the first time is totally normal! It's the meat trembles! There's no explanation why it happens but it's just their normal reaction to having solid meat for the first time. Kitten Lady has a whole video about it called Why Do Kittens TREMBLE? Is it normal?!

watching the kittens spaz out was so funny ❤

The cats need stimulations, like sounds. You can take a ipad, with sounds of nature, like birds sounds and that. Its good for the mom cat and the kittens. They need that. And a scratching post

"Stop it! You all need to go to rehab!" Oh you're making me CRY LMAO

This may be my new favorite video, I couldn’t stop smiling, honestly made my night ❤

They are so cute I have been here since they were born and since you got storm and since your 1st ever video I love you so so much joey I've been here with you every single party your time that you have posted from almost 6 years ago

Between the eating of the pellets and the eating their own ears. . . They are a special little bunch.

I feed my cat Pate every other day and he loves it. Mainly the seafood, shrimp, whitefish and makeral are his faves. It is good to give it to them but it's best to give them different things each time you feed them so they can have variety. Their energy after eating it 😍😍I love it.

Such cuties!

Joey, you have to keep Flint 🥺🥺🥺

Kittens tremble when they eat meat for the first time and it’s very normal! I highly recommend looking up Hannah Shaw’s Kitten Lady project, she has a video about this and other kitten care videos that are so helpful!

I use a similar pellet litter except it comes with a bottom section for a pee pad so the pee collects separately from the poop on top! It helps reduce smells too, which is super nice. It’s mainly made for 1 cat per system but I figured I might as well suggest it regardless in case you’re curious🥰 It’s called Purina Tidy Cats Breeze Litter Box System I got my kitty at 3 months old and she had no issues using the system, I have no idea what the foster used for litter box prior but she uses it everyday and she’s 2 now 💜

Awwww love your videos joey graceffa!!!!

Joey please do another hour watching them play video with their new hangout and litter box! ❤

They're not shaking because of the food per se like an allergy, they probably are just excited about the food and balancing on their tails and body similar to puppies so they learn not to fall forward towards the bowl. I heard there was a earthquake there of five point one but you would have felt that one. But generally they just seem to learn how to balance and eat at the same time.

I loved when you did that high pitch noise at the kittens I think they're really like that you're too funny Joey

When Joey started saying that his kittens were addicted to drugs I literally died🤣🤣. Their too cute!!!😍

💕💕💕💕💕Adorable

Flint is soooooooo cute Omg!!!

Yay! That is great I am glad they are using the litter box ❤

Do they drink water from a bowl yet? They will get the hang of the litterbox very soon. A tip is to put some poop or pee from them in there, they will understand it's the toilet then. You're doing an amazing job!!! 🤗

Loved it, Thanks Joey, and good Luck with litter box training.

Use clay litter, non clumping. It's safe for kittens to eat. Also, put some poop of theirs in the litter box, they go where they smell. Move food away from litter. They don't shit where they eat. Also I start babies on Gerber's chicken baby food mixed with baby rice cereal, we call it kitten crack. Vibrating while eating is normal. Sensory overload realizing they are carnivores 😁

Joey Thank you so much for sharing these videos they always make me smile.

love those kittens

The first time I watched this was yesterday, I think like 26 seconds after you posted it(!) but with the sound off because I was at work. Now tonight it's on. 😻 This is one of my favorite foster vlogs you've posted.💗🐱 Love you. 💗🙌🏻

Lol rip headphone users lol love ya joey the kittens are growing so fast and there so flipping cuteee

Aww they are growing so FAST and so Adorable ❤

Ahh you have to keep one of them 🥲😍

If I were you I would’ve introduced them to the litter box right away or Atleast have it in their cage, when I got my kitten she knew how without any training just put it out for them and they’ll do their thing, it’s on instinct.

The bit were Joey got all freaked out and started rambling about drugs made me fall off my chair, not even kidding.

It's so crazy how big they have gotten 🥰 so cute!

Beautiful babies

The kittens: GOT ANYMORE O DAT GOOD STUFF?

trembling is super normal for weening kittens. Kitten lady even made a video about it. Maybe its te same with kids when you feed them cake or ice cream for the first time :P

Him:Hahaha so cute The Kittens: vibrates

They loved that kitty food! 😺 so excited lol

I LOVE LOVE LOVE how you talk to your rescues. 🐾❤️

This video is so funny and cute! You're a good dad.

They’re just overstimulated and excited by the food, it’s nothing bad that they shake. It’s just new

they're getting so big

Kitties tail shake when they are excited

Thank You Joey! Your clips of your darling Fur Angels make my day! 🐾🐾💞

Your kittens are cute too

the meat shakes are normal btw!! they always do that when they eat wet food for the first time

Cats are similar to the puppies in they shake to keep calm

LOL of course they liked the food that made you retch. Another kitten Instagrammer said their own kittens’ shivering while eating was normal, btw.

Love this vlog! Kittens are so cute!!!

they are SOOOOOO CUTE I want one! (mostly pearl)

Their cute ❤️

Seeing the kittens is exactly what I needed today ❤

So cute😊

So much serotonin during the last 5 mins I could watch them for hours 🥹

They are so cute