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    Reassurance And Experience Needed For Improving Kitten

    I am fostering for the first time right now as well, 2 kittens who both came home with a nasty URI, but the smaller one who is also 9 weeks is experiencing it quite severely. She was lethargic as well and was not eating (due in part because she could not smell or taste food I believe?). I have...
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    Foster Kitten Failure To Thrive

    The female kitten is about half the size of the male kitten, and was just as small when I received them about 2.5 weeks ago. The boy has grown and become more energetic and playful and the girl is fighting off a nasty URI (possibly conjunctivitis as well?) and has stopped showing interest in...
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    Foster Kitten Failure To Thrive

    The kitten has started to do better, she was even up and about in the middle of the night walking to the litter box and to drink some water mixed with pedialyte I left out on the floor, she even batted at a toy on the floor a few times. The drainage has basically stopped from her nose, but her...
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    Foster Kitten Failure To Thrive

    I took both kittens back the afternoon to get looked at again and they gave me a bottle of azithromycin to administer with a syringe to both once a day. They also gave me some pedialyte which they said would help the sick kitten start to feel better and move around more, as well as a few...
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    Foster Kitten Failure To Thrive

    I don't know exactly how much she weighs, for some reason it's not listed on the paper they gave me when I started fostering them. The boy was larger when I got them, and he has continue to grow, but it is difficult to tell whether or not she has. I often see her drink water, and around every...
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    Foster Kitten Failure To Thrive

    I forgot to mention she is 8 weeks old, and the larger orange male kitten is 7 weeks old.
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    Foster Kitten Failure To Thrive

    I started fostering two kittens with my local SPCA 2 weeks ago. The orange male brought home an URI that I am treating with Ofloxacin .3 eye drops as given to me by the fostering facility. The smaller black female caught the URI about 4 days ago but her health has been deteriorating. She is very...
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