I asked a question about future problems with bringing a kitten home early... I know bringing a dog home early leads to bite inhibition problems, socialization issues, etc... obviously the issues with cats are different, I wanted someone who knew anything about it to possibly answer the question instead Im told... well its not too hard to raise a cat, haha... like Im dumb and couldnt possibly raise an animal. My oldest cat is 17 today and we got her at 8 weeks old... Im pretty sure I can raise a cat... so if the only point in posting is to tell someone the question was dumb to begin with, why post?
Ok, where to start..........I never said the question nor you (or anyone else for that matter) was stupid/dumb etc. Not too sure where you got that from.
I am a little confused here, you said it was someone else that had the kitten, someone who is inexperienced and has no history of owning/raising anything.......correct??? So why are you offended (btw when no offence was intended), about the last line about 'its generally easy to raise a kitten"?
At 4 wks of age, the kitten may or maynot do well on dry cat food. If it was still with the momma, momma would (usually) start the weaning process at this time and start introducing kills to the kittens. Some momma's have to wean early and the kittens do eat what the adults do and are fine. At four weeks the kitten will (or should be) very mobile, walking/running etc. the eyes would have opened around 12- 14 days, same with the hearing. The owners will have to keep the kitten clean or at the very least check to make sure the kitten is able to clean its self correctly. Deworming is a must at this stage. Bottle feeding, milk replacers and mulitple feedings throught the night are not needed at this point. But milk replacers can be added to dry food and feed semi moist.
The kitten can be taught at this age to use a litter box. Where it sleeps should be draft free, indoors (meaning a house/apt etc) it shouldn't need a secondary heat source like a heat lamp, hot water bottle etc at this age.
Your org. post indictated that you were looking for behavioural issues, not info on how to raise a kitten. If it was clear that that was what you were looking for posting this info would have been done then.
BTW, I have raised countless orphaned kittens (entire litters) and two litters of orphaned pups. All orphaned from 4 days after birth to 12 days, didn't loose one.