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Hi,
I just adopted a 17-20 week old female kitten on Saturday. We immediately took her to the vet because she had ear mites (which we are now treating), but the vet told us she was very underweight, at 2.83 pounds (he said she should be about 4 pounds). We started feeding her soft kitten food as soon as we got home.
Yesterday she ate 4 cans of kitten food and another 3 today (so far). I'm a little worried because her belly has gotten big in the last 48 hours, and her poop is softer than it was (about the same consistency as her food). I think that she was just starving before and is trying to make up for it. She is fixed, so I know she isn't pregnant. I guess I'm just looking for validation that this is ok. We're planning on cutting back on her feeding to two cans a day (and she has access to dry food and fresh water 24/7). She isn't really eating the dry food, she definitely prefers the wet food. She's acting ok, is very playful and exceptionally cuddly, and very talkative.
Am I just over-reacting? We had a kitten that died 6 months ago from some unknown gastrointestinal abnormality, and I'm a little overprotective of this one.
I just adopted a 17-20 week old female kitten on Saturday. We immediately took her to the vet because she had ear mites (which we are now treating), but the vet told us she was very underweight, at 2.83 pounds (he said she should be about 4 pounds). We started feeding her soft kitten food as soon as we got home.
Yesterday she ate 4 cans of kitten food and another 3 today (so far). I'm a little worried because her belly has gotten big in the last 48 hours, and her poop is softer than it was (about the same consistency as her food). I think that she was just starving before and is trying to make up for it. She is fixed, so I know she isn't pregnant. I guess I'm just looking for validation that this is ok. We're planning on cutting back on her feeding to two cans a day (and she has access to dry food and fresh water 24/7). She isn't really eating the dry food, she definitely prefers the wet food. She's acting ok, is very playful and exceptionally cuddly, and very talkative.
Am I just over-reacting? We had a kitten that died 6 months ago from some unknown gastrointestinal abnormality, and I'm a little overprotective of this one.