My boyfriend and I rescued a 2 month old kitten in my neighborhood about a week ago, we named him Alfie.
We were planning to trap the mum and the two kittens together, but Alfie was limping and didn't seem energetic compared to its sibling, so we decided to bring him to the vet first.
Turned out he was possibly attacked by a crow and his wound was full of puss and was having a fever. The vet gave him injections and antibiotics.
The first two nights we kept him in the bathroom and since he was a bit week, although he was hissy we were able to hold him and spoon feed him.
Then we set him up in a playpen in our living room(we live in a small one bedroom apartment) with a little cat house, litter tray, food and water inside. He was meowing occasionally at night but for the most part he seemed ok and slept quite a lot during the day, we weren't able to pet him yet but he had no problem eating in front of us and we were getting a lot less hisses. He would play with a toy mouse and we tried moving him into the hallway at night to let him out of the pen to exercise a bit when we sleep, he seemed to making progress slowly.
Until we had to bring him back to the vet again after a week, when we were in the waiting room another cat was meowing non stop and I think that set him off and he meowed like crazy. And he also freaked out and pooped himself when the vet was checking on him, his fever still hasn't gone down, but his limping was a lot better. So we got a different antibiotics this time and we mixed it in his wet food like how we did for the past week, and as soon as he tasted the medicine he refused to eat the food, we tried putting just a pinch of the antibiotics in different kind of food but he just wouldn't eat it.
And that night he started to meow loudly non stop and was trying to break through the playpen. We had to move him back to the bathroom, and he was all hissy at us again. This morning when we checked on him he had pooped quite literally everywhere in the bathroom, he did pee in the litter box.
He has completely reverted to day 1 and was hissing at everything. We couldn't get him to take his antibiotics and he his freaking out now, what should I do..
We were planning to trap the mum and the two kittens together, but Alfie was limping and didn't seem energetic compared to its sibling, so we decided to bring him to the vet first.
Turned out he was possibly attacked by a crow and his wound was full of puss and was having a fever. The vet gave him injections and antibiotics.
The first two nights we kept him in the bathroom and since he was a bit week, although he was hissy we were able to hold him and spoon feed him.
Then we set him up in a playpen in our living room(we live in a small one bedroom apartment) with a little cat house, litter tray, food and water inside. He was meowing occasionally at night but for the most part he seemed ok and slept quite a lot during the day, we weren't able to pet him yet but he had no problem eating in front of us and we were getting a lot less hisses. He would play with a toy mouse and we tried moving him into the hallway at night to let him out of the pen to exercise a bit when we sleep, he seemed to making progress slowly.
Until we had to bring him back to the vet again after a week, when we were in the waiting room another cat was meowing non stop and I think that set him off and he meowed like crazy. And he also freaked out and pooped himself when the vet was checking on him, his fever still hasn't gone down, but his limping was a lot better. So we got a different antibiotics this time and we mixed it in his wet food like how we did for the past week, and as soon as he tasted the medicine he refused to eat the food, we tried putting just a pinch of the antibiotics in different kind of food but he just wouldn't eat it.
And that night he started to meow loudly non stop and was trying to break through the playpen. We had to move him back to the bathroom, and he was all hissy at us again. This morning when we checked on him he had pooped quite literally everywhere in the bathroom, he did pee in the litter box.
He has completely reverted to day 1 and was hissing at everything. We couldn't get him to take his antibiotics and he his freaking out now, what should I do..
. I am sure he will calm down with more quiet, darkness and relaxation. Do make sure he is drinking a lot of water to further help bring that fever down. I am keeping my fingers crossed!
That is great news!!!! Yea!!! 
Baby steps!
