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As some of you may know, I trapped two feral kittens, one Dec. 16, which I named Maggie Mae, and her sister Dec. 17, named her Rosie. I let them acclimate a little and brought them both to vet on the 22nd. Before then, I had brought in fecal samples, as I knew they had worms, so I could get them started on worms meds, their little tummies, especially Rosie's, were distended. (I named them Maggie Mae and Rosie). Gave them worm meds immediately on positive result from fecal. Turns out they were only about 9 weeks old. They were pretty starved, and ate fairly well when I first got them. The vet visit went well, they are negative for FIV and leu. They had a few fleas, but that's been taken care of, and they are now flea free. They do not eat very well...they eat much less than my resident cat did at same age. Is it the worms? I know they still have them, I started their second round of worm med today, and they get it for three days. We go back to the vet on the 23rd. I'm hoping worms will be gone by then, but we will see, as they were pretty bad. Does anyone have suggestion for getting them to eat more? I feed them grain free kitten food, I was NOT feeding them any dry at all, but they do love little treats, so hoping to get more calories in them yesterday I went out and bought wellness dry to leave a little bowl in the kitten room, it looks pretty much untouched. (im not fond of dry food and will get them off it, if they ever go on it, soon as I have them eating more canned) I have tried flavors with fish, chicken, turkey..doesn't seem to matter, they eat but they eat very little. Is this a worm thing? I'm not sure what else to try. I tried putting baby food in the cat food, but although they get interested, not much gets ingested. They are active, play a lot, are alert, acting pretty much as expected. They were only 1.8 lbs each when I got them, and I know they have put on weight but exactly how much I'm not sure. They have been slowly getting socialized with Charli, my kitty, who is almost 11 months old. There has been no hissing, no growling, no bad behavior on the part of my Charli, she's just a little nervous around them, as there are two of them and they kind of bounce around a lot which has her looking in many directions to keep track of them. Both kittens immediately purr when Charli comes in the room. Charli is very awkward with them, not sure how to play with them, has bopped them on head a couple of times, but not really in a mean way, and they play around her and she tries to play with them, but she is a big kitty and they are so tiny I think she's a little nervous about what these little furballs are up to. But anyhow, any advice on how to get these two to eat more would be greatly appreciated...they drink, use their litter box and have made great strides socially since I brought them in. They were all hissy and hiding for a couple days, now they purr when touched, Rosie, the smaller of the two, runs right to me when I enter the room...Maggie won't run away, but won't run too me, but will stay put and I can just walk up and pet her, which results in immediate purring and she'll even roll over for a belly rub. I think Rosie does it for a little treat, as I bring them one when I go in.
Any advice on getting them to eat more would be appreciated. I know many of you are very experience with kittens. Thank you!!
Any advice on getting them to eat more would be appreciated. I know many of you are very experience with kittens. Thank you!!