Dear all, this is my first post here... registered specifically for this and I'm glad to see such a well structured online community.
On Saturday I found two kittens in the middle of the street, 5-6 weeks old, without a mother. They were in danger of being run over and falling into drainage pipes and also didn't look too healthy, so I grabbed them and brought them home. One declined rapidly and passed away late afternoon, and the remaining kitten was fed with kitten formula and taken to the vet first thing on Monday.
The vet diagnosed gastroenteritis and administered antibiotic. The kitten had fleas which were sprayed away with a mild chemical, and I was given special gastrointestinal canned food to feed the kitten with. By Tuesday (yesterday), the kitten stopped eating and became dehydrated so she was rushed to the vet again. The vet gave her a subdural serum injection and Nutri-Gel, after which she ate some canned food.
I continued trying with Nutri-Gel and food, talk to her a lot, but today she seems a tiny bit colder. She's not moving around very well and stays in her cat box with her head hanging low. The vet will open in 5 hours... and tomorrow will be closed due to public holidays.
What I'm looking for is, I guess, a bit of TLC advice. I try to cuddle her even though she's soiled and dirty (and I can't clean her with water, vet said no) but she just looks so miserable. How have other members kept their kittens alive?? If the vet is closed tomorrow, any chance I could get a needle and give her the subdural serum injection myself?
Please help, any advice is welcome... been around animals all my life so I'm used to some of them not making it but I became very attached with this particular kitten
On Saturday I found two kittens in the middle of the street, 5-6 weeks old, without a mother. They were in danger of being run over and falling into drainage pipes and also didn't look too healthy, so I grabbed them and brought them home. One declined rapidly and passed away late afternoon, and the remaining kitten was fed with kitten formula and taken to the vet first thing on Monday.
The vet diagnosed gastroenteritis and administered antibiotic. The kitten had fleas which were sprayed away with a mild chemical, and I was given special gastrointestinal canned food to feed the kitten with. By Tuesday (yesterday), the kitten stopped eating and became dehydrated so she was rushed to the vet again. The vet gave her a subdural serum injection and Nutri-Gel, after which she ate some canned food.
I continued trying with Nutri-Gel and food, talk to her a lot, but today she seems a tiny bit colder. She's not moving around very well and stays in her cat box with her head hanging low. The vet will open in 5 hours... and tomorrow will be closed due to public holidays.
What I'm looking for is, I guess, a bit of TLC advice. I try to cuddle her even though she's soiled and dirty (and I can't clean her with water, vet said no) but she just looks so miserable. How have other members kept their kittens alive?? If the vet is closed tomorrow, any chance I could get a needle and give her the subdural serum injection myself?
Please help, any advice is welcome... been around animals all my life so I'm used to some of them not making it but I became very attached with this particular kitten