Look into hairball control dry food and Petromalt or other similar product. Tabbies shed their soft winter undercoat at springtime which is a considerable amount of hair (you could build another cat out of it!). Let your cat spend as much time as you can with it's mother as they are better prepared for life and happier all around as opposed to taking it away too early. Mango left his mom at 16 weeks and was quite ready to take over a new home. He's a well adjusted, gentle, happy little guy.