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Hi, apologies in advance for the long story and wall of text.
Originally this female stray cat and decided on our place to raise her babies but not long after, the babies went missing and she went on heat, more babies on the way.
After the initial litter and she started crying for her babies, I started feeding her and she began to trust me after a few weeks. She doesn't stay too long and wanders off only to come back for food (ha). But as her pregnancy went on, she stayed around longer. That's good.
When she finally gave birth, there were 4 kittens. 2 boys and 2 girls and about 1 and a half month in, something was slowly looking wrong, she didn't really want to eat, puked and probably had blood in her urine. She walked off and hasn't been seen since.
Which leaves me to care for her kittens*. Thankfully, they're able to eat on their own but at one point they had diarrhea, vomit and bloody stools (I first switched foods which improved but turns out it's probably just worms). 2 kittens in particular was sickly but improved after some medication and deworming.
*I had to learn how to handle the litter box, train them from staying away from the veggies (gardening) and basically everything that comes with. Everything was new to me. Also trying not to tear my hair out for the past 1 and half months.
It was on Monday (July 19) that I got them dewormed (Pyrantel Pamoate). Due to my lack of experience, I fed them kitten milk (prior to deworming) and too much liquids (after deworming) which is why their stool was still loose after 2 vet visits. (Will be resuming the activated charcoal liquid as given by the vet.)
I stopped that yesterday and the stool has some improvement BUT It came to my attention that one of the male kittens isn't very active (snoozes a lot, doesn't eat much and lets me hold him when he usually just squirms off to play. It was initially just the girls that were sick (1st vet visit) and the boys were fine.
I try to feed by hand and he eats a little but stops. I see him drinking some water and don't think there's anything weird (no vomit, bloody stools) in the litter box yet.
Covid cases are surging drastically in my area and my turn for the vaccine has yet to come (at time of writing) but is it normal behaviour after deworming?
Or is it tapeworms, heartworms that wasn't covered by pyrantel pamoate that might be the issue?
They also have ear mites and I'll be dealing with that soon when this settles down. Seeing either of them eat less worries me and will turn to assist feeding if it keeps up.
Originally this female stray cat and decided on our place to raise her babies but not long after, the babies went missing and she went on heat, more babies on the way.
After the initial litter and she started crying for her babies, I started feeding her and she began to trust me after a few weeks. She doesn't stay too long and wanders off only to come back for food (ha). But as her pregnancy went on, she stayed around longer. That's good.
When she finally gave birth, there were 4 kittens. 2 boys and 2 girls and about 1 and a half month in, something was slowly looking wrong, she didn't really want to eat, puked and probably had blood in her urine. She walked off and hasn't been seen since.
Which leaves me to care for her kittens*. Thankfully, they're able to eat on their own but at one point they had diarrhea, vomit and bloody stools (I first switched foods which improved but turns out it's probably just worms). 2 kittens in particular was sickly but improved after some medication and deworming.
*I had to learn how to handle the litter box, train them from staying away from the veggies (gardening) and basically everything that comes with. Everything was new to me. Also trying not to tear my hair out for the past 1 and half months.
It was on Monday (July 19) that I got them dewormed (Pyrantel Pamoate). Due to my lack of experience, I fed them kitten milk (prior to deworming) and too much liquids (after deworming) which is why their stool was still loose after 2 vet visits. (Will be resuming the activated charcoal liquid as given by the vet.)
I stopped that yesterday and the stool has some improvement BUT It came to my attention that one of the male kittens isn't very active (snoozes a lot, doesn't eat much and lets me hold him when he usually just squirms off to play. It was initially just the girls that were sick (1st vet visit) and the boys were fine.
I try to feed by hand and he eats a little but stops. I see him drinking some water and don't think there's anything weird (no vomit, bloody stools) in the litter box yet.
Covid cases are surging drastically in my area and my turn for the vaccine has yet to come (at time of writing) but is it normal behaviour after deworming?
Or is it tapeworms, heartworms that wasn't covered by pyrantel pamoate that might be the issue?
They also have ear mites and I'll be dealing with that soon when this settles down. Seeing either of them eat less worries me and will turn to assist feeding if it keeps up.