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Hi all,
some of you remember me from the threads about three orphaned kittens i fostered last summer, Qays, Gebran and Cynthia. Thanks to your help, we managed to nurse them to life, and give them a healthy and beautiful second chance after their momma died.
It seems it is my fate to run into orphaned kittens in urgent need of help!!! I just moved to a new country for work (this time it is Jordan) and i stumbled upon a poor family of 2 twin brothers who care for ferals and strays.
Here is the story, I was having a smoothie on a rooftop of a cafe and enjoying my afternoon as i saw what seemed to me like a 3 legged cat trying to jump to the garbage container to fetch for some food...if knew even if i tried to approach, the cat would run away. 2 hours later, I was going to my car and I see that very same cat sitting under my car!!!!!! she/he is not 3 legged, but has a swollen arm and is thus limping. I tried to approach her/him but the fluffy cuty ran away. I promised I would return the with a friendly trap.... while trying to catch fluffy, a man shows up and asks what I needed, and I explained. he hurried to show me the rest of the colony and to promise me he will help fluffy like he helped all the others... then another shows up - the are twins - and they insisted i enter and say hi to all the cats...
they told me that they found a nursing moma cat dead in the street. Together we looked for some lonely kitties missing their mom, and we found 2. very skinny little kitties, probably a week or 10 days old max. We took them in to an already nursing cat (probably in their late second or early third week) that the twin brothers are ofc caring for. She luckily accepted them...
I hope I was not too late, I went there today with a tuna-trap to catch fluffy and take him/her to the vet, spent all afternoon waiting, but fluffy did not show up ;(
I checked on the orphans, only to find that they are extremely skinny, One of them is really really skinny as if she/he is not growing! and the problem, one his eyes is swollen and closed with some brownish pus on it. and the other one is open.
The twin brothers are thinking of maybe giving them a bit of penisilin, just a tiny little drop. But I am not sure this is a good option for such a small kitty. I don't know what the problem is with the eye.... Herpes? Infection? My wild guess is that it is due to a weak immune system after being separated form their mom.
I have a multivitamin tube for cats and kittens.,, will that help??? The vets are hesitant to deal with such young kittens because "they don't respond to treatment".
Most of these cats in that colony have "eye infections" and I would be surprised if that would be a coincidence.
Another one of these kittens also has some sort of excess pus on her eye but at least the eye is open.
Among the bigger cats, several have a shade of bluish white on their one of their eye... and one of them was even operated at the vet for "eye infection"
I can get your advice on how to care for the rest of them at a later stage but for now I want to make sure these 2 little orphans don't fade and die...specially the one with the eye problem.... They are reportedly both nursing as the queen cat adopted them.
I know you car barely see anything, but it was very dark in the garden where they are I couldnt get a better photo
PLEASE ADVICE!!!
some of you remember me from the threads about three orphaned kittens i fostered last summer, Qays, Gebran and Cynthia. Thanks to your help, we managed to nurse them to life, and give them a healthy and beautiful second chance after their momma died.
It seems it is my fate to run into orphaned kittens in urgent need of help!!! I just moved to a new country for work (this time it is Jordan) and i stumbled upon a poor family of 2 twin brothers who care for ferals and strays.
Here is the story, I was having a smoothie on a rooftop of a cafe and enjoying my afternoon as i saw what seemed to me like a 3 legged cat trying to jump to the garbage container to fetch for some food...if knew even if i tried to approach, the cat would run away. 2 hours later, I was going to my car and I see that very same cat sitting under my car!!!!!! she/he is not 3 legged, but has a swollen arm and is thus limping. I tried to approach her/him but the fluffy cuty ran away. I promised I would return the with a friendly trap.... while trying to catch fluffy, a man shows up and asks what I needed, and I explained. he hurried to show me the rest of the colony and to promise me he will help fluffy like he helped all the others... then another shows up - the are twins - and they insisted i enter and say hi to all the cats...
they told me that they found a nursing moma cat dead in the street. Together we looked for some lonely kitties missing their mom, and we found 2. very skinny little kitties, probably a week or 10 days old max. We took them in to an already nursing cat (probably in their late second or early third week) that the twin brothers are ofc caring for. She luckily accepted them...
I hope I was not too late, I went there today with a tuna-trap to catch fluffy and take him/her to the vet, spent all afternoon waiting, but fluffy did not show up ;(
I checked on the orphans, only to find that they are extremely skinny, One of them is really really skinny as if she/he is not growing! and the problem, one his eyes is swollen and closed with some brownish pus on it. and the other one is open.
The twin brothers are thinking of maybe giving them a bit of penisilin, just a tiny little drop. But I am not sure this is a good option for such a small kitty. I don't know what the problem is with the eye.... Herpes? Infection? My wild guess is that it is due to a weak immune system after being separated form their mom.
I have a multivitamin tube for cats and kittens.,, will that help??? The vets are hesitant to deal with such young kittens because "they don't respond to treatment".
Most of these cats in that colony have "eye infections" and I would be surprised if that would be a coincidence.
Another one of these kittens also has some sort of excess pus on her eye but at least the eye is open.
Among the bigger cats, several have a shade of bluish white on their one of their eye... and one of them was even operated at the vet for "eye infection"
I can get your advice on how to care for the rest of them at a later stage but for now I want to make sure these 2 little orphans don't fade and die...specially the one with the eye problem.... They are reportedly both nursing as the queen cat adopted them.
I know you car barely see anything, but it was very dark in the garden where they are I couldnt get a better photo
PLEASE ADVICE!!!