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I've been given a tiny little furball who was found on the sidewalk during a storm yesterday morning. He would have died for sure if it hadn't been for a friend who picked him up.
After picking him up the friend carried him to a vet, who visited him and said he's about two months old and healthy. He gave her a kind of dry food made of very small pellets that the kitten shouldn't have trouble eating.
The poor thing has to have grown in a house, because there were no other cats nearby and he apparently didn't have the instinct, or the energy, to find shelter from the rain. He also isn't showing any sings that he's a wild cat (clawing at everything, hissing all the time, being generally asocial and restless, etc). Actually he seems the kindest, cutest little creature, friendly and curious.
I suspect he was abandoned.
Now: the cat has gone since he was picked up without eating OR drinking. He is showing no interest whatsoever in the dry food, and when my friend tried giving him some water from a needle-less syringe he averted his mouth and didn't want to drink.
I got him a few hours ago; I gave him his own room (my living room, which I'm almost never in normally), put some cat litter in a corner (which he seems to know how to use, as he did pee a very, very small amount in it) and put two small bowls with some water and dry food nearby.
In the beginning I thought he wasn't eating due to the very bad day he'd had, but it's been hours that he's been walking around in my living room and he hasn't yet touched food or drink. Instead, he keeps meowing, and only stops when I cuddle him. The moment I stop cuddling he starts meowing again.
I'm starting to get seriously worried here. He's already very tiny, I don't think he can afford to go much longer without food or drink.
I'm also not sure he actually is two months old, because he is so very, very tiny, but the doctor said he's weaned, so he can't be that young either.
I'm at a loss here; I love cats, but I don't really know much about how to keep them, never having owned one before.
Oh, here's a movie I made of the little creature, so you can see just how small he is:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...45095342&hl=en
What do I do? Am I worrying too much? Will he start eating on his own accord, eventually? Do I have to give him homogenized food? Maybe get him to another vet?
Please help!
Thanks.
After picking him up the friend carried him to a vet, who visited him and said he's about two months old and healthy. He gave her a kind of dry food made of very small pellets that the kitten shouldn't have trouble eating.
The poor thing has to have grown in a house, because there were no other cats nearby and he apparently didn't have the instinct, or the energy, to find shelter from the rain. He also isn't showing any sings that he's a wild cat (clawing at everything, hissing all the time, being generally asocial and restless, etc). Actually he seems the kindest, cutest little creature, friendly and curious.
I suspect he was abandoned.
Now: the cat has gone since he was picked up without eating OR drinking. He is showing no interest whatsoever in the dry food, and when my friend tried giving him some water from a needle-less syringe he averted his mouth and didn't want to drink.
I got him a few hours ago; I gave him his own room (my living room, which I'm almost never in normally), put some cat litter in a corner (which he seems to know how to use, as he did pee a very, very small amount in it) and put two small bowls with some water and dry food nearby.
In the beginning I thought he wasn't eating due to the very bad day he'd had, but it's been hours that he's been walking around in my living room and he hasn't yet touched food or drink. Instead, he keeps meowing, and only stops when I cuddle him. The moment I stop cuddling he starts meowing again.
I'm starting to get seriously worried here. He's already very tiny, I don't think he can afford to go much longer without food or drink.
I'm also not sure he actually is two months old, because he is so very, very tiny, but the doctor said he's weaned, so he can't be that young either.
I'm at a loss here; I love cats, but I don't really know much about how to keep them, never having owned one before.
Oh, here's a movie I made of the little creature, so you can see just how small he is:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...45095342&hl=en
What do I do? Am I worrying too much? Will he start eating on his own accord, eventually? Do I have to give him homogenized food? Maybe get him to another vet?
Please help!
Thanks.