- Joined
- Jun 27, 2006
- Messages
- 524
- Purraise
- 1
So just as I post my "Happy Tale" of my two new feral/foster kittens slideshow in the foster forum here. I hit "Submit" and before I can be too pleased I look down and Boo is throwing up so hard it's throwing him backward two body-lengths.
Twice today he pooed, and has the runs, then jumps out of his box and throws up violently. After the first time I made an appointment with a new vet (I am not on speaking terms with the vet's office I work with for the fosters but I found someone good and with reasonable rates~)
Okay so he's been having the runs off and on since the 11th. On the 11th he stopped eating his wet food and will only nosh on dry food. He's been sitting around looking cold, all tucked in, and in general more baby like than usual. Wanting to be snuggled all the time, with me all the time.
It turns out he is pretty sick. He was dehydrated and given SQ Fluids. This really upsets me because I feel I should've noticed this. I really don't know how to tell but I should've read about it in here--I'm sure the information is there. So, duh. Of course if he has the runs he would be susceptible to dehydration but of all the kittens, Boo at least drinks from the new fountain I got my little trio. I should've noticed this sooner.
I am so mad at myself.
Boo also had a LOW temp.
He had a fecal done and the vet found "bacteria." So Boo is now on Albon Liquid twice a day. If anyone can tell me anything to watch out for with this, please do. I can always call the vet--they are very good but experience of other cat lovers is what I crave.
He also got Rebound food supplement. He doesn't seem to like it. It's fish flavored. So I am making him some Pedialyte.
Peek is fine. His temp and fecal is fine and he got his first distemper shot today. I need to keep them separate.
Now, I'm going back to the vet to pick up more Rebound and hopefully Albon, because here is the kicker.
There are two other siblings, feral, from this same litter as my own little love doves. I've been feeding these two in my lap and they are coming along well behaviorally but the one feral is dying, I can see it just now as I looked in on him. It's the second time today he is just laying on his side, and he's still very thin, though his brother is not as thin at all.
They are not part of the program I work for yet--I took them in and am trying to get them adoptable before their surgery and adoption. Time is running out, I fear. I may just put him in the carrier and take him up to the clinic. I am going to be broke.
Twice today he pooed, and has the runs, then jumps out of his box and throws up violently. After the first time I made an appointment with a new vet (I am not on speaking terms with the vet's office I work with for the fosters but I found someone good and with reasonable rates~)
Okay so he's been having the runs off and on since the 11th. On the 11th he stopped eating his wet food and will only nosh on dry food. He's been sitting around looking cold, all tucked in, and in general more baby like than usual. Wanting to be snuggled all the time, with me all the time.
It turns out he is pretty sick. He was dehydrated and given SQ Fluids. This really upsets me because I feel I should've noticed this. I really don't know how to tell but I should've read about it in here--I'm sure the information is there. So, duh. Of course if he has the runs he would be susceptible to dehydration but of all the kittens, Boo at least drinks from the new fountain I got my little trio. I should've noticed this sooner.
I am so mad at myself.
Boo also had a LOW temp.
He had a fecal done and the vet found "bacteria." So Boo is now on Albon Liquid twice a day. If anyone can tell me anything to watch out for with this, please do. I can always call the vet--they are very good but experience of other cat lovers is what I crave.
He also got Rebound food supplement. He doesn't seem to like it. It's fish flavored. So I am making him some Pedialyte.
Peek is fine. His temp and fecal is fine and he got his first distemper shot today. I need to keep them separate.
Now, I'm going back to the vet to pick up more Rebound and hopefully Albon, because here is the kicker.
There are two other siblings, feral, from this same litter as my own little love doves. I've been feeding these two in my lap and they are coming along well behaviorally but the one feral is dying, I can see it just now as I looked in on him. It's the second time today he is just laying on his side, and he's still very thin, though his brother is not as thin at all.
They are not part of the program I work for yet--I took them in and am trying to get them adoptable before their surgery and adoption. Time is running out, I fear. I may just put him in the carrier and take him up to the clinic. I am going to be broke.