We rescued a kitten last week, found him in our chicken coop starving and flea covered.
We have bathed him numerous times, and are finding less fleas...but we have to bomb the house this weekend because our basement (its an old house with a disgusting basement that has broken concrete walls with dirt showing through and its just nasty but we rent so we can't really do much about it) has fleas. I am not sure how they infested our basement, but we have a couple vents that are not attached to the heating/cooling system and just are open from basement to 1st floor, so we are thinking the fleas get in through these vents, as we just noticed a flea problem before finding this baby. So we have given our cats a few baths, washed our stuff a lot, and plan to bomb this weekend. Last yr we did the same and it helped a lot. Our house has a door separating the upstairs from the down, so we can bomb pretty safely. (we want to bomb the basement but do not know where the pilot light is, and don't want to blow our house up...)
Anyways back to to the kitten...
He ate like it was goin out of style last week, and over the weekend. On Tuesday we noticed he was not eating as much, but when we pulled out the wet food, he still ate it. Yesterday, he would not touch ANY wetfood. I ran to the store, and got a different kind, still would not touch it. He went to the dry food a few times, and would eat for about 3-5 minutes, and drink water, but no wet food. He is getting thinner again (after doing so well losing weight!) and is sleeping a lot. We can get him to play and he likes to run arond with the other kittens a little, but will spend a majority of time sleeping.
We ended up taking him to the vet earlier this week, and they said aside from his old wounds, which we are treating, he was fine. He has some scarring on the tip of his tail, his ears, and belly and we think someone inflicted these wounds instead of animals as we originally thought.
We are getting concerned about the poor baby again....today I brought him some wet food, and he walked away from it and went to the dry bowl and ate for a few. I have tried locking him in bathroom with wet, and he sits at door crying. I have read a little about how fleas can affect a kitten this young, so I am hoping that after we do our major treatment on Saturday, he will feel a little better. We are getting some more food tonight to try and if he still is barely eating like this tomorrow, I plan to call the vet again...
Any advice/tips on anything a kitten might eat? He is about 8 weeks old. We were thinking trying some kitten milk but weren't sure.
(i understand responses will be to take him to the vet I am sure, and we definitely plan to tomorrow if nothing changes, but we are exhausting every effort before another vet visit, and he is still eating....if he stopped completely, I would have already taken him.)
Sorry for the long post!
We have bathed him numerous times, and are finding less fleas...but we have to bomb the house this weekend because our basement (its an old house with a disgusting basement that has broken concrete walls with dirt showing through and its just nasty but we rent so we can't really do much about it) has fleas. I am not sure how they infested our basement, but we have a couple vents that are not attached to the heating/cooling system and just are open from basement to 1st floor, so we are thinking the fleas get in through these vents, as we just noticed a flea problem before finding this baby. So we have given our cats a few baths, washed our stuff a lot, and plan to bomb this weekend. Last yr we did the same and it helped a lot. Our house has a door separating the upstairs from the down, so we can bomb pretty safely. (we want to bomb the basement but do not know where the pilot light is, and don't want to blow our house up...)
Anyways back to to the kitten...
He ate like it was goin out of style last week, and over the weekend. On Tuesday we noticed he was not eating as much, but when we pulled out the wet food, he still ate it. Yesterday, he would not touch ANY wetfood. I ran to the store, and got a different kind, still would not touch it. He went to the dry food a few times, and would eat for about 3-5 minutes, and drink water, but no wet food. He is getting thinner again (after doing so well losing weight!) and is sleeping a lot. We can get him to play and he likes to run arond with the other kittens a little, but will spend a majority of time sleeping.
We ended up taking him to the vet earlier this week, and they said aside from his old wounds, which we are treating, he was fine. He has some scarring on the tip of his tail, his ears, and belly and we think someone inflicted these wounds instead of animals as we originally thought.
We are getting concerned about the poor baby again....today I brought him some wet food, and he walked away from it and went to the dry bowl and ate for a few. I have tried locking him in bathroom with wet, and he sits at door crying. I have read a little about how fleas can affect a kitten this young, so I am hoping that after we do our major treatment on Saturday, he will feel a little better. We are getting some more food tonight to try and if he still is barely eating like this tomorrow, I plan to call the vet again...
Any advice/tips on anything a kitten might eat? He is about 8 weeks old. We were thinking trying some kitten milk but weren't sure.
(i understand responses will be to take him to the vet I am sure, and we definitely plan to tomorrow if nothing changes, but we are exhausting every effort before another vet visit, and he is still eating....if he stopped completely, I would have already taken him.)
Sorry for the long post!