have kittens

Examples from literature

But dogs sometimes look after other kinds of animals, like kittens, baby chickens, or even baby tigers. 
Puppies and kittens can melt our hearts when they look at us with their big eyes. 
Sometimes puppies and kittens play with things that we don’t want them to play with. 

kitten | American Dictionary

kitten
noun[ C ]
us/ˈkɪt·ən/
a young cat:
Our cat just had six kittens.

Examples of kitten

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We even join in the playful antics of our puppies and kittens.
To obtain adult flukes, each of two kittens were inoculated orally with 200 metacercariae recovered from the snakes.
The low prevalence in kittens suggests that, as predicted, the transmammary route of infection is infrequent.
The lack of an obvious ocular-dominance pattern in kittens is also probably because the translucent eyelids of young animals transmit visual information.
The experiment was repeated with day-old chicks, newborn goat kids and kittens, and none of them would cross over the 'deep' side.
The fact that kittens are not adult animals, or that they are feline, has nothing to do with it.
Separately from this, metacercariae were recovered from the intercostal muscles of infected rats, and used to infect two kittens to obtain adult flukes.
The kittens know instinctively what to do, they just have to learn exactly how to do it skilfully.
The noun in these cases often represents some state or event: having kittens, studying grammar, and so forth.
How complete is physiological compensation in extrastriate cortex after visual cortex damage in kittens?
Receptive fields of cells in striate cor tex of very young, visually inexperienced kittens.
Binocular interaction in striate cor tex of kittens reared with ar tificial squint.
Receptive field characteristics and plastic proper ties of visual cor tical cells in kittens reared with and without visual experience.
Binocular interaction in striate cortex of kittens reared with artificial squint.
Changes in the visual system of monocularly sutured or enucleated kittens demonstrable with cytochrome oxidase histochemistry.
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