desertdweller
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Post by desertdweller on May 9, 2007 14:09:16 GMT -5
Hi all,
I found a kitty yesterday underneath my wood pile, not sure how it got there but I don't think it has ever eaten any food before. What can I try to feed this kitty? How often should I feed it? What if it won't eat food? What else do I have to do to it? I have no idea how old it is, maybe 3 or 4 weeks?
Any ideas on why it got separated from its Mother?
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Post by takilasunrise on May 9, 2007 14:48:54 GMT -5
There is kitten replacement milk that you can buy at pet stores, one brand is KMR and another is Just Born. They have itty bitty bottles you can buy to nurse kittens and puppies. I raised a stray (young) kitten before and I eventually found it a home. If you know of someone that has a nursing cat, you can slowly introduce it into her litter. The kitten I found I fed it the KMR and then eventually my new mommy cat let her nurse! I opened the garage door into the alley and the door pushed her away and I found her there, crying, with her eyes glued shut from infection. I got some medicine for her eyes and fed her. I made a bed for her in a box and had a little litter box for her, which she figured out on her own pretty quick. She had to have been about 4 weeks old. The new owners brought her back to visit me once after she grew up. They said she was a great cat! Good luck!
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Post by rockyraccoon on May 9, 2007 14:56:48 GMT -5
jamie my bobo cat was raised on a bottle. i had to feed him every couple of hrs just like a baby. i slept with him so i wouldn't wake the rest of the family with this cycle. i had to carry him everywhere i went with his bottle and the milk replacement like takila is talking about until he reached an age he could eat food which was about 4 weeks. he was about 2 weeks old when i found him. he would fit in my hand and was so tiny i was afraid to put him on the floor for fear someone wouldn't see him and step on him. i would not have taken this on except i 1st found his 4 siblings and took them to the shelter. they put them all to sleep! so when i found him the next day i knew he had as good a shot with the bottle as anything else. he had a will to survive. i think a hawk or fox got the momma cat.
kim
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Post by spikeict on May 9, 2007 15:25:16 GMT -5
I have used the kmr for a abandoned kitten myself, it works well. As I remember she drank from a eye dropper at first and we celebrated when she figured out she could lap it up. Oh and don't worry about when to feed her/him she will let you know when she is hungry.
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Post by akansan on May 9, 2007 18:39:39 GMT -5
We did this with one of ours about four years ago. Kitten replacement formula, along with some liquid children's vitamins in a medicine syringe worked great. He learned to latch on to the syringe and suck, but at first it required some VERY gentle pressure to get him to recognize food came from that wierd round thing. Warm q-tips on the rear also work nicely. Turns out my male dog liked playing mommy in that regards as well. When you start switching to the weaning formula or cereal, be prepared for a mess everywhere. We finally gave Alex a playmate (Asia) who was raised by a Mommy so she could teach him to groom himself. He no longer thinks of himself as a dog. Quite cat-like now.  |
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Post by stoner on May 9, 2007 18:52:22 GMT -5
Don't do what I did when a stray cat had kittens in my wood pile. I was eating waffles one morning and I gave some to the little male(pugsley) and he never really liked cat food his entire life. He always wanted what we were eating!
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Post by Toad on May 9, 2007 20:23:55 GMT -5
I accidently took a kitten left under my porch. I was alergic to cats but I couldn't help it - grey with green eyes. I only kept it over night and took it to the animal shelter the next day. Figured such a good looking cat wouldn't have trouble getting adopted. When I got home, it's mom was there waiting with the other kittens. OOPS. Evidently she squirreled them away in different spots while she was off hunting or something.
Next time I see a kitten all by its lonesome, I'm leaving it alone.
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Post by snowdog on May 9, 2007 21:50:24 GMT -5
if they feel threatened they will move them -- one at a time --- and some times they will move them three or four times in a couple days --- if I found one that small I would prob just watch it from a distance for awhile -- see if the mother comes after it in a couple hours -- I doubt it got there by itself if it is that small or else the rest aren't very far away
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desertdweller
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Post by desertdweller on May 13, 2007 23:09:26 GMT -5
I don't think the mom put her there, I have two very large dogs that roam freely within our fence, which is where the wood pile is. Hooch thinks he is our border patrol, he has a well paved dirt path that runs the entire length of the fence. Anyway here is an update on Pita, Rodney named her......I don't really like the name but oh well.... PITA=pain in the ass So far, she is now passed the milk thing, not completely but she is learning how to eat mushy food mixed with milk. She started to get an eye infection, (it was almost shut), so I put some neosporine sp? on it and its back to normal already. All she does is eat and poop, oh and she plays a LOT.    |
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Post by sandsman1 on May 13, 2007 23:30:49 GMT -5
haha thats a cool lookin cat
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Post by cina on May 13, 2007 23:40:11 GMT -5
OH my goodness what a little sweet!
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Post by rockyraccoon on May 14, 2007 6:11:41 GMT -5
pita's a cutie jamie! bet she is a big helping packing boxes lol.
kim
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Post by Tweetiepy on May 14, 2007 8:29:07 GMT -5
AWWWWWWWWww I love cats, but hubby is very allergic - she's a cutie nice blue eyes
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Post by takilasunrise on May 14, 2007 13:04:03 GMT -5
I think Pita is a good name! That's how I address Earthdog in text messages!
P.S. The kitten is adorable! Are you gonna keep her?
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Post by krazydiamond on May 14, 2007 16:37:05 GMT -5
what a little (and i DO mean little) cutie cat! she shouldn't even be away from her mother she looks so tiny. good for you, Jamie for keeping her alive!
KD
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Post by desertdweller on May 15, 2007 16:52:31 GMT -5
Yes, Takila, I think I'm gonna keep her. She was in attack mode in that last picture. If she is up and about and she recognizes my shoes, she comes over to attack them and when she hears me talking to her, she climbs all the way up my pantleg to my t-shirt. I have given her 3 baths, she hated the first one, prolly scared her a little then during the second bath, she calmed down a bit and the third time she just sat in the water waiting for me to clean her up so she could get out, eat her dinner and then snuggle with me for a while.
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Post by takilasunrise on May 16, 2007 11:07:06 GMT -5
Good way to get her used to bathing, when the're still babies. I've never bathed my cat...............if I tried it now, he would pull a Freddy Krueger! Have fun!
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Post by Rose on May 16, 2007 19:50:55 GMT -5
What a cute little thing  Good idea to keep on bathing her - we didn't do that when our were kittens, then while back one of them came in COVERED in greasy dirty oil (don't know where she had been) and we had to wash her because she was trying to lick it off and was going to make herself ill - by the time we had finished the bathroom floor, me and hubby were wet through and I had blood pouring down my neck and chest where she had tried to climb up me to get out - so keep up with the baths ! ;D |
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