Hey all. I recently took a little stray kitten from a friend of mine. She couldn't keep him so I took him in. They found him outside of her mom's work and he is around 3 weeks old.
He walks around a lot all wobbly like most kittens and hasn't shown any negative signs of anything I'm aware of, I raised a couple of 6 week old kittens before so I know how to litter train them and things like that, but I've never bottle fed one so young, so stimulating him is new to me.
He nurses like a champ from the little bottle we have full of kitten formula stuff and he pees every time we stimulate him with a little moist warm cotton ball. He won't drink water or formula from a saucer as of yet. My friend who was caring for him previously said they hadn't been able to get him to take from a saucer but that I should try introducing a small amount of wet food to him, which I did this evening and he ate a pretty decently sized chunk of it, but when he was done he immediately wanted formula again from the bottle.
We have yet to get kitty to poop though, is there any better way to simulate him specifically for pooping? We've only had him for a day and he has had no problem eating and peeing, and has peed on his own.
We have two other cats who are both 12 years old also, they are pretty mild mannered and we are keeping him separate from them for now. Our more social of the two has already seen him, she was sitting in the living room when we brought him yesterday and she smelled him but showed little interest. Do you have any recommendations for ways to introduce them?
He walks around a lot all wobbly like most kittens and hasn't shown any negative signs of anything I'm aware of, I raised a couple of 6 week old kittens before so I know how to litter train them and things like that, but I've never bottle fed one so young, so stimulating him is new to me.
He nurses like a champ from the little bottle we have full of kitten formula stuff and he pees every time we stimulate him with a little moist warm cotton ball. He won't drink water or formula from a saucer as of yet. My friend who was caring for him previously said they hadn't been able to get him to take from a saucer but that I should try introducing a small amount of wet food to him, which I did this evening and he ate a pretty decently sized chunk of it, but when he was done he immediately wanted formula again from the bottle.
We have yet to get kitty to poop though, is there any better way to simulate him specifically for pooping? We've only had him for a day and he has had no problem eating and peeing, and has peed on his own.
We have two other cats who are both 12 years old also, they are pretty mild mannered and we are keeping him separate from them for now. Our more social of the two has already seen him, she was sitting in the living room when we brought him yesterday and she smelled him but showed little interest. Do you have any recommendations for ways to introduce them?
