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The person I got her from said she's around 5 weeks old and apparently has been bottle fed since 2 weeks old.
I dewormed her about 3 days ago (for roundworms) but now there are visible worms in her stool, sometimes just rice-like segments. I am 99% sure they are tapeworms though, because one whole tiny dead worm came out and had that segmented looking body. She also has fleas (I'm assuming what gave her the tapeworms) and I'm not sure what is safe to use on her to kill them, but I've been bathing her with Dawn soap and using a flea comb.
I have some Bayer brand tapeworm pills, but I think she is below 2 lbs (when I held her on my scale my weight only went up 1 lb) and I'm afraid to give her anything else. It says to give 1/2 pill if the kitten is below 4 lbs. It also says not recommended for kittens under 6 wks.
Is it safe to give her half of a pill? The roundworm medicine itself made her vomit a few times hours later (even though I gave her a very small dosage) but she is fine now.
I want to wait to de-worm her but she's so skinny that I don't know if the worms are preventing her from gaining weight or not. I can feel almost every bone in her body, it seems.
I'm feeding her Royal Canin kitten food, both soft and hard. I am also mixing KMR with the soft food.
She sleeps almost constantly and doesn't seem to have a lot of energy. And her "third eyelids" are out constantly when she's awake and walking around, but her eyes look healthy to me otherwise.
I'm assuming it's due to her poor condition?
I'll attach photos of her (excuse her messy face, she ate wet food earlier)
I want to bathe her again soon because every time she uses the litter box she gets litter and poo stuck to her rear where it's a soft diarrhea type texture.
ps sorry if any images upload twice, phone is being weird
I dewormed her about 3 days ago (for roundworms) but now there are visible worms in her stool, sometimes just rice-like segments. I am 99% sure they are tapeworms though, because one whole tiny dead worm came out and had that segmented looking body. She also has fleas (I'm assuming what gave her the tapeworms) and I'm not sure what is safe to use on her to kill them, but I've been bathing her with Dawn soap and using a flea comb.
I have some Bayer brand tapeworm pills, but I think she is below 2 lbs (when I held her on my scale my weight only went up 1 lb) and I'm afraid to give her anything else. It says to give 1/2 pill if the kitten is below 4 lbs. It also says not recommended for kittens under 6 wks.
Is it safe to give her half of a pill? The roundworm medicine itself made her vomit a few times hours later (even though I gave her a very small dosage) but she is fine now.
I want to wait to de-worm her but she's so skinny that I don't know if the worms are preventing her from gaining weight or not. I can feel almost every bone in her body, it seems.
I'm feeding her Royal Canin kitten food, both soft and hard. I am also mixing KMR with the soft food.
She sleeps almost constantly and doesn't seem to have a lot of energy. And her "third eyelids" are out constantly when she's awake and walking around, but her eyes look healthy to me otherwise.
I'm assuming it's due to her poor condition?
I'll attach photos of her (excuse her messy face, she ate wet food earlier)
I want to bathe her again soon because every time she uses the litter box she gets litter and poo stuck to her rear where it's a soft diarrhea type texture.
ps sorry if any images upload twice, phone is being weird
