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I just went through this over the weekend, though my situation is different in that the kittens have been nursing with mom. In my case, I got the kitten to try goat's milk in a bowl and then mixed it with wet food so he would recognize the smell. Since yours are bottle fed, I imagine you could...

He was the first born and he was the biggest for the first few weeks. Then their weights started to spread out and now he is about 50g behind the next smallest kitten since the rest have been eating food for almost a week. He's still gaining ok on his own, they were just gaining a lot more. Now...

I'm fostering a mom and kittens for the first time, so I definitely have very little experience, but my mama cat did the same thing. She is feral so trying to take her to the vet would be no simple task, so I waited it out (she didn't have the other symptoms, just the panting). After about a...

He's hooked now. He even went back for seconds. Lol

It worked! :yess: And now they need a bigger bowl...

We had a similar thing happen about a year ago with the neighborhood cats. In this case, it was a big tom cat who tried to take the kitten. Mom got it back initially, but he came back the next night and got him again and this time killed the kitten :( It was so heartbreaking. I think the baby...

Well I've never had luck mixing the KMR without a bunch of clumps and I had to go to the store anyway, so I got some goats milk. It took some convincing, but once he tried it, he drank for a few minutes! So, I'm thinking if I give him wet food mixed with it he might try that too? I brought the...

Of course I just caught him trying to eat litter. :cringe: High standards, this one!

Yes, I keep putting him in front of both the wet and the dry and he gives a quick sniff and then does a burying motion next to the bowl. I already have KMR I could put out, but is the goat's milk more appealing to them?

Here are my cuties :) Jack is the fluffier tux.

The two boys are eagerly eating the wet food whenever I put it out. The girl is enjoying her softened kibble. The last boy has still not shown any interest. I'm weighing everyone daily, and he is still gaining about 10g/day, but barely. The other ones are gaining more like 30! I think mama cat...

Hello! I am fostering a stray mama cat and her litter. The kittens are 5 weeks old as of today. There are 4 kittens and they're all doing great with weight gain. Over the weekend, they started showing interest in Mom's wet food, so I put out some wet food mixed with KMR for them. Only two of the...

Learned my lesson for sure. This is the first time I've tried TNR with an adult cat. I did it a few years ago with 3 kittens who semi trusted me already. Now that my own life is less crazy I feel like I'm finally able to start tackling our colony here. The local humane society has a free TNR...

I feel so dumb. I am trying to start TNR-ing our neighborhood cat colony and late last night I trapped a male cat who has been coming around to eat lately. Woke up at 6am to bring him to the humane society. Had the cage in the trunk and I thought I could open the trap just a crack to get the...

I am currently fostering a semi-feral mom and kittens as well. In the beginning, she behaved much like you are describing but I forced her to let me take them out twice a day to weigh them. At first I used a regular glove and a jacket but after they were about a week old, she started getting...