I have trapped and rescued three kittens on Dec 30th, a female and two males.
The vet says they're about 3 and a half months old. One of them was sneezing and coughing, another one had a sore eye, the third one was fine.
I took them to the vet right away, and the vet held them at the clinic for treatments and assessment. The diagnosis was of a Herpes Virus, and they were put on antibiotics, pills and ointment for their eyes. They decided to treat them all, even if one was apparently fine.
Meanwhile I started looking for new families for them, and despite the fact it was the end of the year and people were distracted by the celebrations, in a few hours I received several phone calls for them, especially for the female. Undoubtedly she is/was the prettiest of the three and in my life I had rarely seen something more beautiful.
Unfortunately the sore eye was detracting much from her, but I was positive that the right cures and medicines would have done the miracle once again. In the last two years I had rescued several kittens in this condition, and they all came out fine.
To all people who called me I told that the kittens would have been re-homed only after they were discharged from the clinic and the vets were saying they were fine for adoption.
As I was saying, the female received most of the requests, I had to pick the most reliable one, just like for the other two siblings.
Unfortunately her sore eye went worse and worse, and on Wednesday she lost it...
As I easily thought, the person who had chosen her now rejected her, and on Wednesday chose one of the two males instead. The other male went to another reliable couple on the same day.
All kittens were discharged on Wednesday at noon.
The female came home with me for better treatments, as per vet instructions. I received a prescription and bought all the meds. I also gave her two sessions of nebulizer.
She's rather feral, but was so weak that she accepted everything.
The only thing was that she wasn't eating, drinking and using the litter.
I force fed with chuncks of food in her mouth, I gave her water with a syringe. I also gave her a high-energy broth... nothing worked.
So, yesterday in the afternoon I took her to a different vet who held her at the practice and this morning she told me that the kitten hadn't eaten. She force fed her the same way I did.
The vet ran a CBC and found a high WBC, especially lymphocites, which is consistent with a viral infection, and an RBC on the low end of the range, which could be normal for a kitten.
The vet suspects a FeLV or FIV... She will run a test in the afternoon (it's 3 pm here) and in the late afternoon she will let me know
She says that although the kitten is very young, a positive test will give us the certainty of her disease. A negative test would tell us that the kitten is NON-positive.
If the kitten does not start eating on her own, the vet will put a nose feeding-tube to the kitten... It's so unfair, she's so young and has to go through all this already...
If the kitten is positive to FIV and/or FeLV the worst is yet to come!
The person who rejected the female and chose her little brother has a young kitty in her home already. I gave her this kitty in August... This kitty is not vaccinated for FeLV because she's an indoor only cat.
The couple who adopted the other kitten has recently lost a young cat to FeLV and were still in pain. They wouldn't like to have another FeLV kitten in their home...
Furthermore, the three kittens come from my feline colony, and this would mean that FeLV is running in the colony!
Please, pray she will live healthy and strong!
As she was a few days before Christmas
As she was when I caught her on Dec 30th
Along with her brother on Jan 2nd, the night before she lost her eye
The vet says they're about 3 and a half months old. One of them was sneezing and coughing, another one had a sore eye, the third one was fine.
I took them to the vet right away, and the vet held them at the clinic for treatments and assessment. The diagnosis was of a Herpes Virus, and they were put on antibiotics, pills and ointment for their eyes. They decided to treat them all, even if one was apparently fine.
Meanwhile I started looking for new families for them, and despite the fact it was the end of the year and people were distracted by the celebrations, in a few hours I received several phone calls for them, especially for the female. Undoubtedly she is/was the prettiest of the three and in my life I had rarely seen something more beautiful.
Unfortunately the sore eye was detracting much from her, but I was positive that the right cures and medicines would have done the miracle once again. In the last two years I had rescued several kittens in this condition, and they all came out fine.
To all people who called me I told that the kittens would have been re-homed only after they were discharged from the clinic and the vets were saying they were fine for adoption.
As I was saying, the female received most of the requests, I had to pick the most reliable one, just like for the other two siblings.
Unfortunately her sore eye went worse and worse, and on Wednesday she lost it...
As I easily thought, the person who had chosen her now rejected her, and on Wednesday chose one of the two males instead. The other male went to another reliable couple on the same day.
All kittens were discharged on Wednesday at noon.
The female came home with me for better treatments, as per vet instructions. I received a prescription and bought all the meds. I also gave her two sessions of nebulizer.
She's rather feral, but was so weak that she accepted everything.
The only thing was that she wasn't eating, drinking and using the litter.
I force fed with chuncks of food in her mouth, I gave her water with a syringe. I also gave her a high-energy broth... nothing worked.
So, yesterday in the afternoon I took her to a different vet who held her at the practice and this morning she told me that the kitten hadn't eaten. She force fed her the same way I did.
The vet ran a CBC and found a high WBC, especially lymphocites, which is consistent with a viral infection, and an RBC on the low end of the range, which could be normal for a kitten.
The vet suspects a FeLV or FIV... She will run a test in the afternoon (it's 3 pm here) and in the late afternoon she will let me know
She says that although the kitten is very young, a positive test will give us the certainty of her disease. A negative test would tell us that the kitten is NON-positive.
If the kitten does not start eating on her own, the vet will put a nose feeding-tube to the kitten... It's so unfair, she's so young and has to go through all this already...
If the kitten is positive to FIV and/or FeLV the worst is yet to come!
The person who rejected the female and chose her little brother has a young kitty in her home already. I gave her this kitty in August... This kitty is not vaccinated for FeLV because she's an indoor only cat.
The couple who adopted the other kitten has recently lost a young cat to FeLV and were still in pain. They wouldn't like to have another FeLV kitten in their home...
Furthermore, the three kittens come from my feline colony, and this would mean that FeLV is running in the colony!
Please, pray she will live healthy and strong!
As she was a few days before Christmas
As she was when I caught her on Dec 30th
Along with her brother on Jan 2nd, the night before she lost her eye
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Sending special thoughts and healing vibes for this very special little female kitty. 
Surely God will hear our prayers and take mercy on that sweet baby! Sending all my healing vibes to her, please give her a kiss for me! 
It sounds like things are moving in the right direction, fingers crossed. 
I'm also glad the vet has taken her case seriously and given it close attention. I hope the group who helps feral/stray cats will be able to find this little girl a new home but first things first, a full recuperation is most important. Bless you for taking her in and giving her a chance. 
