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Hi! I'm new here. I hope it's OK to just jump right in!
Here's our new baby:
Starlight
We brought her home from the SPCA today. It's been a complicated few days with her!
My 5 year old daughter (in the picture) picked her out yesterday. We were told that we could pick her up today after she was fixed. We were told that she was 3 months old.
They called early this morning to say that she did not meet the weight requirement to be fixed. She is only 1 pounds 9 ounces, and must be 2 pounds.
We were told we could visit her, but not take her home until she's fixed. We went to visit her and Emma and Starlight just totally bonded. The shelter manager allowed us to bring her home as her foster parents, but not officially adopt her until she's fixed.
She came home with a cold and antibiotics. She also is on a special food to help her gain weight (prescription diet canned food).
So - my questions:
Is it likely that she really is 3 months? She seems small, but I'm not very experienced with kitties!
How much weight should she be gaining? a day? a week?
How much should she be eating? We've had her home for 4 hours and she's had 2 teaspoons of the canned food, a few bites of dry food, and lots of water. She has peed and pooped a few times.
Other than the antibiotics, is there anything I can do to make her feel better with her cold? She has a little bit of discharge in one eye. With my kids, I squirt a little bit of my own breastmilk in there and it works really well, but I'm not sure about human milk for baby cats! (We believe in human milk for baby humans, so cat milk for baby cats makes sense, but I don't have any cat milk!)
Anyway - I really look forward to learning from you all!
Nancy
Here's our new baby:
Starlight
We brought her home from the SPCA today. It's been a complicated few days with her!
My 5 year old daughter (in the picture) picked her out yesterday. We were told that we could pick her up today after she was fixed. We were told that she was 3 months old.
They called early this morning to say that she did not meet the weight requirement to be fixed. She is only 1 pounds 9 ounces, and must be 2 pounds.
We were told we could visit her, but not take her home until she's fixed. We went to visit her and Emma and Starlight just totally bonded. The shelter manager allowed us to bring her home as her foster parents, but not officially adopt her until she's fixed.
She came home with a cold and antibiotics. She also is on a special food to help her gain weight (prescription diet canned food).
So - my questions:
Is it likely that she really is 3 months? She seems small, but I'm not very experienced with kitties!
How much weight should she be gaining? a day? a week?
How much should she be eating? We've had her home for 4 hours and she's had 2 teaspoons of the canned food, a few bites of dry food, and lots of water. She has peed and pooped a few times.
Other than the antibiotics, is there anything I can do to make her feel better with her cold? She has a little bit of discharge in one eye. With my kids, I squirt a little bit of my own breastmilk in there and it works really well, but I'm not sure about human milk for baby cats! (We believe in human milk for baby humans, so cat milk for baby cats makes sense, but I don't have any cat milk!)
Anyway - I really look forward to learning from you all!
Nancy