Hi,
We recently adopted one of our friends kittens, a 4 month year old female kitten (called Bubbles).
We discovered she wasnt quite "all there". She couldnt eat properly, she would stick her whole body and face in the bowl but only managing to move the food around without actually getting any of it in her mouth. So to get some food in her belly we had to bottle feed her for some time, she is much better now as she can eat from a bowl, its very messy and half of it ends up on the floor but at least a good portion is getting down her throat.
The next problem was her cleaning. We first noticed she couldnt clean herslef properly was when she had her leg in the air next to the wall, funny thing was that she was actually licking the wall and completly missing her leg. This has gone on for sometime and Im worried she may catch ticks or something nasty. Its only beacuse our older cat clean her now and again that she isnt filthy and rotting!
The third and most disheartening problem was her use of the litter, or should I say lack of it. She seems to have three primary places of going to the loo - Behind the toilet, under my sons bed or behind the sofa in the living room (the latter being the most common). Now this has really got my fiances back up lately and she has actually started about giving bubbles away. I dont want this happening as my 8 year old son will be devasted. We have taken her to the vets and they just said she was a bit "slow" as she was the runt of the litter (which didnt help me very much!). I have read some advice about how to litter train but that applies to normal cats, can anyone help me and give any advice on what I should do??
Thanks in advance
We recently adopted one of our friends kittens, a 4 month year old female kitten (called Bubbles).
We discovered she wasnt quite "all there". She couldnt eat properly, she would stick her whole body and face in the bowl but only managing to move the food around without actually getting any of it in her mouth. So to get some food in her belly we had to bottle feed her for some time, she is much better now as she can eat from a bowl, its very messy and half of it ends up on the floor but at least a good portion is getting down her throat.
The next problem was her cleaning. We first noticed she couldnt clean herslef properly was when she had her leg in the air next to the wall, funny thing was that she was actually licking the wall and completly missing her leg. This has gone on for sometime and Im worried she may catch ticks or something nasty. Its only beacuse our older cat clean her now and again that she isnt filthy and rotting!
The third and most disheartening problem was her use of the litter, or should I say lack of it. She seems to have three primary places of going to the loo - Behind the toilet, under my sons bed or behind the sofa in the living room (the latter being the most common). Now this has really got my fiances back up lately and she has actually started about giving bubbles away. I dont want this happening as my 8 year old son will be devasted. We have taken her to the vets and they just said she was a bit "slow" as she was the runt of the litter (which didnt help me very much!). I have read some advice about how to litter train but that applies to normal cats, can anyone help me and give any advice on what I should do??
Thanks in advance