Recent Content by Bwelch

Bless your heart for taking on such a big responsibility! I recently learned these neonatal kittens quite enjoy being “brushed” with a soft toothbrush. It mimics being licked/groomed by the momma. My daughter and I are fostering our first set of kittens and th

I’m so very sorry for your loss. My daughter and I are fostering our first set of kittens and lost 2 of the 4 to 2 different issues. The first one I believe died from coccidia not diagnosed quickly enough and the second one was incredibly tiny and probably had something wrong internally and we...

Thought I’d let you know we lost the little sweetheart yesterday. She fought valiantly but was just too tiny. She was doing pretty good, still feisty,?then she started going downhill quickly. The vet gave her B12, hydration and plasma but nothing helped. My gut instinct is there was an internal...

StefanZ, many many thanks to you for reaching out yesterday. You made me feel much less anxious about this little baby. IM very grateful to have found this forum and the wonderful people here.

Hi Sarthur, We took Kitri to the Humane Society this morning for assessment. We had to drop her off because they were very busy bottle feeding the tiny ones. I stop by the facility on my lunch hour to make sure she was being cared for. She was in an incubator and was happily eating Science Diet...

Wow, I had no idea the powdered was better! I grabbed a can of powdered also so I’ll switch over to it. I’ve been feeding every 2-2.5 hours.

Oh my goodness, thank you for the reply! I’m going to have to check on the raw goats milk and raw honey. I live in Oklahoma so you’d think there’s got to be both around! I’m using PetAg brand KMR, as that is what the local store carries. I bought the premixed hoping it would be just right. We...

Hello fellow kitty lovers, I really need some advice. I’m a foster grandma to a 4ish week old baby. My daughter took her in 2 weeks ago and we finally got her to take a bottle. There were also 3 other fosters that were littermates to each other. Last weekend the kittens started getting sick and...