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Hi,
I'm writing this for a friend who doesn't have Internet access at the moment.
Last night, one of her barn cats had a litter of 8 kittens, 1 of the kittens died shortly after birth and another was stillborn. Leaving 6 healthy kittens.
My friend noticed this morning when she went to check on the kittens that one of them is holding it's head slightly tilted and seems to be crawling in circles, but is otherwise normal and nurses along side the other 5.
The kitten does right itself when rolled over but tends to lay more to the side, rather than on it's stomach.
She called the vet this morning and they sort of gave her half-*** explainations of what could be wrong, wanted her to bring the kitten in ect, which my friend didn't feel comfortable taking the baby away from momma for so long as she lives 2 hours from town.
So I then called by vet and he said one of the possibilities was something called Idiopathic Vestibular Disease? or something else called Chronic head tilt? which may or may not clear up on it's own but is not life threatening. He also said that it could also be that the muscles in the neck have stiffened from the stress of being born an should relax in a day or two, other than that, he didn't know.
If a picture is required I will go down to her house in the next day or so and take some.
Thanks in advance.
I'm writing this for a friend who doesn't have Internet access at the moment.
Last night, one of her barn cats had a litter of 8 kittens, 1 of the kittens died shortly after birth and another was stillborn. Leaving 6 healthy kittens.
My friend noticed this morning when she went to check on the kittens that one of them is holding it's head slightly tilted and seems to be crawling in circles, but is otherwise normal and nurses along side the other 5.
The kitten does right itself when rolled over but tends to lay more to the side, rather than on it's stomach.
She called the vet this morning and they sort of gave her half-*** explainations of what could be wrong, wanted her to bring the kitten in ect, which my friend didn't feel comfortable taking the baby away from momma for so long as she lives 2 hours from town.
So I then called by vet and he said one of the possibilities was something called Idiopathic Vestibular Disease? or something else called Chronic head tilt? which may or may not clear up on it's own but is not life threatening. He also said that it could also be that the muscles in the neck have stiffened from the stress of being born an should relax in a day or two, other than that, he didn't know.
If a picture is required I will go down to her house in the next day or so and take some.
Thanks in advance.