This is the mother cat for the litter of 6 kittens I am helping take care of. The babies are 12 weeks old tomorrow! :-)
So I saw these things that look like sores on her ears. I have no idea where they came from. She is an indoor-outdoor cat, allowed to enter and exit as she pleases. So she...
The kittens I take care of are just over a month old. Are they old enough to give them worming medicine? I heard that you aren't supposed to give medicine to a cat that already had worms? How do I know, if they all use the same litter box? What medicine do you recommend for babies??
Thanks!
ok I gave all the kittens nice baths in the blue Dawn dishsoap. They smell really good! :-) A bunch of fleas came off while I was scrubbing and rinsing. As I was doing this, my mom was changing all the bedding and vacuuming everything! :-) Then we picked off all the remaining fleas (the ones we...
I am about to go give the kittens their Dawn bath, so I will get on a little later and tell you all how it went! I will probably be all scratched up!
I might try trimming their nails, but not if they are totally stressed out already. I definitely do not want them to hurt themselves/each other...
Thanks to everyone!
We are planning on giving them a bath in Dawn tomorrow.... Not sure how that will go. And we are washing all the bedding and towels. We are also going to start giving the mom some kind of flea treatment, in hopes that the kittens will get it from her milk somehow. :-)...
I think the 4 week old kittens I am taking care of have fleas. Is it safe to use frontline or something like that on them this young? I also heard that I could give something to the mom, and they would get it through her? I am not sure what to use for them, so if anyone has any suggestions, I...