Hey all,
I'm a vet student, and I adopted a runty barn kitten 2 days ago. She went to the vet yesterday and besides being INCREDIBLY small for her age (1/2 lb at 5-6 weeks) and having the worst parasite load I've ever seen, she seems to check out just fine.
I just happen to breed geckos and have a small scale, and she lost weight overnight, which is really worrisome to me. She doesn't seem to be eating hardly anything at all, but maybe she's just so small I don't know how much she should be eating (except for a calculated caloric intake) but I'm pretty sure she's not eating nearly enough.
She cries and cries, in fact she lost her voice today, so I'm hoping for some behavior modification advice as well.
When I took her home I was thinking "who better than a vet student to raise a sickly kitten" but it seems once again the learning and the doing are two VERY different things.
This is Freakazoid (Zoey for short)... isn't she a cute little gremlin???
I'm a vet student, and I adopted a runty barn kitten 2 days ago. She went to the vet yesterday and besides being INCREDIBLY small for her age (1/2 lb at 5-6 weeks) and having the worst parasite load I've ever seen, she seems to check out just fine.
I just happen to breed geckos and have a small scale, and she lost weight overnight, which is really worrisome to me. She doesn't seem to be eating hardly anything at all, but maybe she's just so small I don't know how much she should be eating (except for a calculated caloric intake) but I'm pretty sure she's not eating nearly enough.
She cries and cries, in fact she lost her voice today, so I'm hoping for some behavior modification advice as well.
When I took her home I was thinking "who better than a vet student to raise a sickly kitten" but it seems once again the learning and the doing are two VERY different things.
This is Freakazoid (Zoey for short)... isn't she a cute little gremlin???