The day after my last reply I discovered an open area on Pita’s back leg. I took her to the vet where she was diagnosed with an infection. He started her on clavamox twice a day for 14 days and I am also washing the area with Chlorhexidine soaked gauze twice a day. She has done a complete 180...
Now we have another issue... diarrhea. Pita has been on goat’s milk for a week now and had been doing fabulously! Now, all of a sudden I woke up today to diarrhea and he lost 10 grams. He had been constipated from the formula, but following a couple doses of olive oil in his goat’s milk bottles...
Another question... sorry! Pita, the kitten, has started to become very vocal. We keep him in a large enclosed kennel so that he doesn’t get tossed around by the older kittens. He used to lay down and be to sleep almost immediately after feeding, but now will fuss and meow at the door regardless...
We’ve been fostering him since he was 1 week. He’s nursing on another older litter’s mama cat and we’re supplementing with goat’s milk 4-6 times per day. In a typical day he gets between 60-80mL of goat’s milk. He has weighed between 8.50-9.05oz for the past 3 days. He has no other health...
Yes, his eyes opened completely on Sunday, 7/1.
I tried syringe feeding this morning after he nursed with mom for about 10 minutes and he did really well! Willingly took 6 mL then went right back to sleep
The back story:
We are fostering a mama with six 7 week old kittens. All healthy and thriving. Someone brought in a single newborn orphaned kitten to the local shelter and they couldn’t find a nursing mother for him so we ended up with him.
The current situation:
Mama cat will nurse the...