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I am working in South Sudan and we rescued a kitten some 10 months back who has now had kittens. One of the kittens developed a rectal prolapse at just under 5 weeks old and I have taken her to the 'vet' here three times to get it put back in which they claim they did and sewed her up. All visits were deeply traumatic for both of us and then not long afterwards, it came back out. I think mum keeps licking it and undoing all the work and we are back at square one. The vet suggested I separate her from mum and her brothers and sisters for six days while the healing takes place but the distress to everyone is just unbearable and I am at work every day so can't monitor what's happening. I cannot stand the idea of taking her back and I don't have faith that it was put back in properly anyway as it always looked like it was still out. The vet is used to dealing with livestock and had never worked on such a small creature and this was painfully obvious in the basic, not so clean 'surgery'. They de-wormed her but again, using stuff for livestock...well I guess so by the pictures on the bottle the stuff came from...
I have been reading some other threads on this where some great advice was given but what I can get my hands on here in terms of food or medical supplies is very limited eg I can't get baby food here and I haven't seen any pumpkins either. I have wet cat food, tinned tuna and lactose free milk. Is there any advice on what I can do and/or foods I can feed such a small creature in this condition to try and soften her stools? She is pooing but they are hard and get stuck on exit quite often. All the kittens are still feeding from their mum as well as eating solids.
Would be grateful for any advice, even if it is that I may have to give up and let nature take its course... heartbreaking as that may be. She is 7 weeks old now and the sweetest little character and by the way she leaps about the place, you'd never guess her bottom is in the state that it is...other than she licks it quite a lot and sometimes has a wee meow when she goes to the loo.
Thank you so much!
I am working in South Sudan and we rescued a kitten some 10 months back who has now had kittens. One of the kittens developed a rectal prolapse at just under 5 weeks old and I have taken her to the 'vet' here three times to get it put back in which they claim they did and sewed her up. All visits were deeply traumatic for both of us and then not long afterwards, it came back out. I think mum keeps licking it and undoing all the work and we are back at square one. The vet suggested I separate her from mum and her brothers and sisters for six days while the healing takes place but the distress to everyone is just unbearable and I am at work every day so can't monitor what's happening. I cannot stand the idea of taking her back and I don't have faith that it was put back in properly anyway as it always looked like it was still out. The vet is used to dealing with livestock and had never worked on such a small creature and this was painfully obvious in the basic, not so clean 'surgery'. They de-wormed her but again, using stuff for livestock...well I guess so by the pictures on the bottle the stuff came from...
I have been reading some other threads on this where some great advice was given but what I can get my hands on here in terms of food or medical supplies is very limited eg I can't get baby food here and I haven't seen any pumpkins either. I have wet cat food, tinned tuna and lactose free milk. Is there any advice on what I can do and/or foods I can feed such a small creature in this condition to try and soften her stools? She is pooing but they are hard and get stuck on exit quite often. All the kittens are still feeding from their mum as well as eating solids.
Would be grateful for any advice, even if it is that I may have to give up and let nature take its course... heartbreaking as that may be. She is 7 weeks old now and the sweetest little character and by the way she leaps about the place, you'd never guess her bottom is in the state that it is...other than she licks it quite a lot and sometimes has a wee meow when she goes to the loo.
Thank you so much!