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Where are you located?  We have vets here who spay/neuter for $20!      $75 seems steep for a low-cost vet.

You can buy a high calorie paste for cats at any major pet store.  I used Petsmart's house brand, and it cost around $  It comes in a tube.  Both the container and consistency of the paste are a lot like toothpaste.   This is what I gave my little guy when he was fading and refusing to eat.  The...

So, Nermal is now 1 lb 5 oz. He has come a long way. Super playful, running, jumping, attacking the dog. :) Earlier this week he basically weaned himself off of the kitten formula. He is eating mostly kitten wet food, about 4 oz a day. He also it's some dry kibble, but definitely more wet...

Does she carry the kitten around at all? Maybe she was confused about how to move her to a new nest...

Vaseline as in petroleum jelly, not the lotion. Lol

I use Vaseline and a flea comb.

Perhaps she was trying to encourage the kitten to follow her out of the box?

          It's been a few days since I have been on to talk about Nerm.  He is now 8-9 weeks old.  My 6 year old was trying to open Nerm's crate (he sleeps in a dog crate) and my husband told her "No, stop!" so she promptly slammed the crate shut.  On Nermal. I was not in the room, and everyone...

Unfortunately he wants to eat the paper too. I love it that he feels well enough to be a trouble maker! :)

Clear Pedialyte really helped to perk my kitten up when he was dehydrated and having trouble feeding.  He seemed more eager to lap up the thinner fluid then formula, so I ended up cutting the formula by half with pedialyte. 

I have been trying Nerm with a little litter tray, but I haven't been able to leave him alone with it because all he wants to do is gobble up the litter.  Yes, the kitten who still won't eat or drink out of a dish thinks cat litter is the tatiest thing ever. How can I discourage this behavior? 

If she won't suckle, get a syringe-like medicine dropper, like you would use to give medicine to an infant. You can get one from a pharmicist or vet for free usually. Then you can just drip tiny bits into the corner of her mouth. You can stroke her throat gently to encourage her to swallow.

As long as he is eating well and does not seem to be in any sort of agonizing pain, I would let him continue on the way he is. Only time will tell if things will change for him or if he will learn to compensate. Plus, if he grows large enough they may be able to do something for him surgically...

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I'm so sorry you are going through this. I too have a young child. As much as I try to keep her off of little Nermal, if I leave the room for so much as a minute she will go and try to take him out to "play". I explain over and over that he is too little for that kind of play, but she just...