camelia2 wrote:Never, but never ''raise tiny kittens'' unless you must!!! A kitten needs his mother until around 2 months when they can eat solid food and do their buisness on their own. If the mother is alive and not sick, please let them where they are!
They open their eyes at around 2-3 weeks so your kittens are younger
This is true if the mother is alive and well and capable/willing to care for her kittens.
If there is any doubt that a mom might not be able to take care of them (like if she is sick, weak, has abandoned kittens in the past, etc), then its perfectly fine to hand raise kittens, just do as much research as humanly possible about HOW to do so. Feed them the proper formula not just some random milk, how often to feed them, how to help the kittens relieve themselves (as their mom helps them with that for the first couple weeks, they are not able to pee or poop on their own), keep them warm and safe and do vet checkups. Caring for very young kittens is really tough as they need to be fed every couple hours which will mean sleepless nights for the carer and there's no way around that. So if anyone here is planning on committing to something like that, know that it truly is a commitment.
No one should ever care for young kittens "because its fun" or "because I just want to have baby kittens". Newborn kittens are extremely vulnerable and nobody can care for them better than their own mother, so efforts like that should be focused on abandoned kittens, or ones that are brought into shelters because someones unneutered cat all of a sudden got pregnant and the owners didn't think how their (in)actions would pan out in the future, and thus weren't ready to deal with the kittens.