Sleeping for ten hours and counting...Confused and Worried

I think hes doing ok but he sleeps for 8 and ten hours at a time i this normal??should i be waking him?? wouldn he meow if he was hungry?? he has been sleeping for 10 hours now should i wake him

Wake him...I pm'ed you..

wake him!!!

Your vet should have told you to feed him every "x" number of hours and how much. Did they not give you that information?

I would wake him, from what I know at 3 weeks he should be eating every 6 hours.

please read this site. It was written by a member here with alot of experience with kittens
http://www.kitten-rescue.com/kitten_..._schedule.html

on the kitten rescue site it says to feed every 3-4 hours. I would wake him up and feed him...

The kitten that showed up in our yard (which the vet said was pushing about 3 weeks old) was sleeping long stretches through the night when it came to us, usually around 9-10 hours. I didn't know any better at the time so I decided to let it go and watch it for a day or two and since it was eating vigorously during the day, gaining weight, and had plenty of energy when it's awake and playing, I opted to let it sleep. He eats his largest meal right away when he wakes up in the morning and then usually about 40 minutes later he is clamoring for a snack before he sacks out. During the day he usually has two longer naps of about 2-3 hours and then some shorter ones in between--chow times in between.

I'm no kitten expert but is there a reason to disrupt a schedule that is working well for him?

If he's gaining weight, if he's healthy, if his stools/urine is normal and he doesn't seem dehydrated... I don't see why not. Possibly his mother left to get food during the night; so he's used to a gap in his feeding schedule.

Still, wake him a little early--let him sleep for 6-8 hours instead of 10. Even we big humans wake up a bit dehydrated in the morning, so a tiny kitten is even more likely to have problems that way. Just to be safe.

Anyway, it's not like you have to poke him repeatedly to get him to wake. I bet just the smell of KMR, or the touch of the bottle to his little nose will get him right up! No healthy, hungry kitten will pass up a good feeding, asleep or not!