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Cat a Kitten Die From De-Worming?

post #1 of 4
7/8/11 at 7:05am
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Someone please help me - right now I am sickened and feeling guilty and miserable....on Monday I found a tiny 9 oz feral kitten I fell in love with and wanted to keep. However, I work during the day so I thought I would take it a vet to get thoroughly checked out and tested and de-wormed (it had a huge appetite but was all skin and bones so I knew it had worms)and boarded till it was a little stronger. Well, not 12 hours after I took it in the vet called me and told me it had died from the de-worming! I feel like this was my fault, should I have waited till it was a little stronger before subjecting it to all those tests and procedures...the vet told me it was 3-4 weeks old probably...could they have given it too much medication? Does this happen often?!
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post #2 of 4
7/8/11 at 9:22am
Kittens at that age are pretty delicate, and without their mother, have a very high mortality rate.

I would have waited until it was stabilized, but if the vet thought it was OK, there's not much more you can do. Don't beat yourself up over it...although, if you're like me, you probably will, anyway.
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post #3 of 4
7/9/11 at 5:02pm
Mother cats tend to abandon babies that have things wrong with them so it is entirely possible that the kitten had problems that killed it(especially ifit was alone and didn't have siblings with it) and not the deworming. Kitten that small are very fragile and have a high mortality even with the mother if it was feral. Without mom there was next to no chance of it living, especially if you didn't know how long it had been without mom.

The vet thought it was ok, and I tend to go with what my vet says. Don't beat yourself up over it, a kitten that young without mom doen't have much of a chance.

Taryn
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post #4 of 4
7/11/11 at 6:23am
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Thank you Taryn & meblanche for your responses. I still feel horrible - I found this adorable little kitten almost exactly a year to the day that I lost a much loved cat, and for some reason I felt it was almost "sent" to me, so getting that call from the vet was a shock. Many people have told me what you said - but I can't help feeling that I should have nurtured and brought her along a little before sending her off to the vet. I have been reading a lot of posts and it seems like I am not alone, why, when we lose a pet, is the overwhelming feeling - guilt? But thank you, I appreciate it. I am giving myself a little time but I am definitely going to adopt a kitten that needs a home.
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