Cat with one month old kittens

My cat had kittens about a month ago. She had a litter of six. She is having a hard time handling all of them and grooming herself. She has caked on stuff all over her self. I was wondering if it is safe to rinse her off. I wont use any soap just want to get as much of the caked on stuff off.

Goodnes! Yes, use a warm, damp wash cloth and wipe her off real good, and the babies too. You can begin doing this daily to help them all stay clean. Put clean linens in their nest.

The babies should begin to eat wet food and dry food moistened with water to soften it anytime now. You'll want to put a kitten-sized litter pan nearby too and put the kittens in before and after each meal so they learn to use it. Their poops will become formed as they eat solids and mom will stop cleaning them, so you'll need to do it .

My car had six kitten. They are five weeks old. I have been feeding them wet kitten food mixed with kitten formula. Today one of them was acting off and there stomach kept making gurgling noises. He latter puked a bunch of thick brown food up. I held him for a bit then put him back with his mommy.when I went back to check on him he had puked again. It's been about an hour since than and he seem better he is playing and hopping around. Is thier anything I can do for him. I am unable to take him to the vet until I get paid. Could he have eaten to fast or too much?

Do you have any unflavored pedialyte?  You need to watch for dehydration. 

What color was the food he was eating?

He will probably be okay now. Something likely did not agree with him today. As you said, he probably ate too much or too fast.

Are they still nursing their mom? If so, he's probably getting enough hydration.

Hopefully he's over this now. If it continues next time he eats he may need to see a vet.

We don't have any pedilite. But he's still nursing with mom. Im pretty sure he's OK now I'll keep an eye on him and see how he's doing tomorrow.

kittybluebox said:

We don't have any pedilite. But he's still nursing with mom. Im pretty sure he's OK now I'll keep an eye on him and see how he's doing tomorrow.

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PEDIALYTE

Pedialyte, continuation.  Exactly which you give, depends on what you do have at hand.    Ask your neigbours for help, if the shops are closed!!!

If bought, the best is some unflavored baby version.   But if flavored are the only one at hand, you can use them to begin with.

Of homemade,  do you have mineral salt and glucose sugar = dextrose?  These salt respective sugar source are the best

If  you havent,  common kitchen sugar, and white caro syrup, or even honey, are OK.    Even common white sugar works, but much slower.

One basic receipt, is

1 litre water.   1,5 tea spoons salt  1,5-2 soup spoons  sugar source...  A little baking soda= bikarbonat, if you have.   Boil up, let it be room temp again. Use.   Dont spare too long.

Another is,   take some rice,  boil it too long, more than in a food recipe.

Use the water, add some salt.

My favorite at this moment, is you take a bottle of a good minerale water.  They contain lotsa of different, good salts and electrolytes.

You let the gas out, and add some sugar source, about half soup spoon  in a 33 ml bottle.   Be sure the sugar gets  diluted in there as it shall.

And voilá, you do have an excellent home made pedialyte...

Make sure the pedialyte you give, is body warm.

Basic home made pedialyte is the main weapon against the great manslaughter  Cholera,  so dont underestimate this....