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Oh, my, how did I forget this? I guess so much has happened... After I last posted, he went downhill rather rapidly. Two nights later, he was shivering and shaking, and was crying so pitifully, I took him out of his box, slimy green diarrhea and all, and laid down with him on my bed. He slept...

I have not asked about home injections, but it's a good idea. I am horribly phobic about needles, but I think I could manage it. Yes, I'm using the all meat baby food, no onions or anything like that. And adding rice would be a great idea. I'm going to see if I can find any good pet-approved...

StefanZ, thank you so much for your suggestions. My other cats have all their shots, however I'm still keeping them strictly apart. The incident with the food was a mistake, though, due to my house having lost central air conditioning. I brought the cats in to the one room with a window unit to...

Hello all. I just found a 10 week old kitten outside my house last Friday night. It's been insanely hot where I live, plus my neighborhood isn't a good one for cats (dogs running loose, and humans with awful intentions), so I took him in, and fed him. The next day, he had horrible...

OrientalSlave, that's a good idea. I don't have a small scale, but I'll see if I can buy one somewhere. The mother's very accommodating and sweet, and doesn't mind me handling the kittens at all. It's pretty amazing, considering that when I first brought her home she scaled the walls trying to...

ajbkm, thank you! The other two have normal-looking tails, although one seems to have a tiny kink in the base. I hear there's a thing called Manx Syndrome, which is kind of a fuzzy term. Three places online have three different definitions: it affects the cat's mobility, it affects the colon...

BellesMama, thank you! It turns out I didn't look too carefully at the last little baby, but it seems he has no tail! And I thought they couldn't get any cuter.

She just had two more kittens, not 15 minutes ago. Judging from how her demeanor changed so rapidly after the third one, I'm going to guess this is all of them. It seems she finally figured out this whole "mother" business, because she's nursing them and cleaning them, and generally being very...

Ahhh, thank you all. I knew I could count on this forum. You all are so great! Levi68, I tried gently feeling her stomach area, and I'm pretty sure I felt movement, but she's a bit squirmy, so I'm not sure. But she's so bulbous, it's hard to imagine it could be just fat. Kailie, thank you so...

Hi, all. My newest rescued kitty just gave birth to one kitten 12 hours ago. She nearly had it in the middle of the room, but just made it to the nesting box with the kitten dangling out. I'm positive she has more kittens inside (she's still huge around the middle), but she shows no sign of it...

Thank you all for your kind words and encouragement. The kitties are doing 110% better. They're as feisty and pixelated as any kittens you could imagine, and it's wonderful to see. The boy is in the back, the girl in front. They're in the tub, not for a bath, but for batting a toy around...

I don't know if it was the medication, the kitty glop, or both, but both kittens are doing 100% better tonight. This morning, I thought the little girl was dying, and now she and her brother are chasing each other through the house. It's wonderful to see. I actually finally found 12 oz cans of...

Yes, the kitten has diarrhea... I can't believe I forgot to mention that. But it wasn't horrible until yesterday, during the vet exam, when it came out practically water. =/ I got a decent amount of the medicine, enough for two kittens, so I'll medicate her as well, since she probably has...

Yesterday afternoon, the kitten started throwing up everything I fed him. So instead of waiting for the weekend for a vet trip, I took him right away. Unfortunately, the vet I saw was new, so I have no idea if I should trust anything he said or not. He did a fecal exam, and said there were no...

Sorry for the delay. My internet went haywire. =( I didn't see goat's milk at my local store, so I mixed KMR with some egg yolk (prepared as you recommended, thank you so much), and added a bit of baby food chicken to it. I gave him two syringes full last night, and another this morning. He was...

I hadn't thought of goat's milk with egg yolk, but that makes sense. I suppose I'll head to the store and see what they've got. (I would be very interested in how to lessen the chance of salmonella, by the way. I know it's a very nutritious food.) I am planning to take him to the vet this...

Recently I adopted two kittens, a boy and a girl, approximately 7 weeks old. The woman who rescued them was trying desperately to find them homes, because about twenty more were due to be euthanized at the local pound that day, and she'd run out of space. (I honestly hate living in Oklahoma)...