Just thought I’d pop in and let everyone know how the little ones are doing. Both took really quickly and well to royal canin (both wet and dry) found it tricky with water for the first few days but picked it up quickly.
saffron is still very reserved and doesn’t love handling. Jack is super...
Willow likes the mother and baby cat dry food and she likes royal canin kitten (I put her on it when she was pregnant)
when the first two died I never thought we would get to this stage and I truly believe without you @Sarthur2 and this community, we really wouldn’t have. So a massive thank you...
Thought I’d pop by to let you know the babies are doing well. 6 weeks old now. Still feeding nicely with mum. Jack has started trying to steal her food (she’s on royal canin mother and baby cat) so I let him try a little nibble on a small amount of it soaked and softened in KMR. saffron has...
Mum has been treated. Found another flea on saffron, during a wash but none on jack. Wondering if mum picked it up at the vets. She didn’t appear to have them before and it doesn’t seem to be an infestation. Mum has been treated. Also she is back to feeding them really well since her antibiotics.
She’s nursing today, still short feeds but fairly often. Like she pops in every hour, two max for little feeds. Their gains have been really good the last two days. They try to groom themselves a lot now and they creep up on mum and pounce her and she does it to them. 😅
The vet said that it’s very swollen but that there’s plenty of milk there and the milk looks normal. He said he doesn’t want to put her on an anti inflammatory because she’s still nursing but he’s put her on antibiotics incase it’s the start of mastitis/infection and just to fight any infection...