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Mama had her kittens sometime between Thursday evening at 10p and Friday morning at 7:30a. There were 5 kittens. Black, 2 Black and White, 1 Orange, 1 Dark Orange. One of the black and white was basically skin and bones. Moving around, but differently than the rest.
The runt (the smaller of the black and white) passed away by 6p on Friday. We tried heating pad and feeding it. It wouldn’t eat. Mama kept separating the others from it. My heart is broken.
So, we have 4 remaining. The Dark Orange is clearly the biggest. Even it’s features look older. I didn’t check their weights on Friday. Didn’t realize I should until I noticed Black is quite small as well. I started weighing them on Saturday. I weighed them again this morning, 24hrs later.
Black - SW: 58g CW: 63g Gain: 5g
Black&White - SW: 88g CW: 92g Gain: 4g
Orange - SW: 99g CW: 101g Gain: 2g
Dark Orange - SW: 103g CW: 111g Gain: 8g
As you can see, Dark Orange is the only one that has gained the 6g - 10g guideline. At what point should we be concerned about these lack of gains?
The runt (the smaller of the black and white) passed away by 6p on Friday. We tried heating pad and feeding it. It wouldn’t eat. Mama kept separating the others from it. My heart is broken.
So, we have 4 remaining. The Dark Orange is clearly the biggest. Even it’s features look older. I didn’t check their weights on Friday. Didn’t realize I should until I noticed Black is quite small as well. I started weighing them on Saturday. I weighed them again this morning, 24hrs later.
Black - SW: 58g CW: 63g Gain: 5g
Black&White - SW: 88g CW: 92g Gain: 4g
Orange - SW: 99g CW: 101g Gain: 2g
Dark Orange - SW: 103g CW: 111g Gain: 8g
As you can see, Dark Orange is the only one that has gained the 6g - 10g guideline. At what point should we be concerned about these lack of gains?