Questions and tips about handling feral cats.

malena

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I have read this forum thru and there are a few things I have a hard time finding an answer to.

1. How do you treat fleas, ear-scabies and worms on feral kittens?
- Without interrupting the socializing process.
- When kittens are still with mamas and mamas canâ€[emoji]8482[/emoji]t be approached.
- When kittens are really young.
2. When is it time for vaccination and can they be vaccinated against Chlamydeous when they might already carry it?
Our kittens have had the worst kind of Chlamydeous attacking both eyes and lungs. They have had two different kind of antibiotics treatments and a third antibiotic in an eye solution. They also had the sneezing disease and had nose drips with antibiotics.
We saved all eyes, the pneumonia is gone and I havenâ€[emoji]8482[/emoji]t heard sneezing in more than two weeks now. I am cooking special food for them to get their stomachs in order after the antibiotics. The diarrhoea is gone since a week and they are gaining weight now. But this really slowed down the socializing process, especially for two of the kittens.
They are de-wormed once.
I will ask somebody else to do the second de-worming so I donâ€[emoji]8482[/emoji]t have to be the “bad guy†again.

Since I learned a lot from you I want to share what I have learned during the process.

-When having to treat smaller kittens with unpleasant medication it really helps the socializing process to always finish every treatment with giving them the bottle. Even if they donâ€[emoji]8482[/emoji]t need it any more.
-When trying to pet a scared kitten it is good if they are a little sleepy and laying dark place where they feel safe. I rub my hands in catmint first and I made them both purr and fall a sleep while I am slowly striking them – even if they still are scared of me when they are on the floor.
-I am saving a lot of money by cooking for the cats and after studying the subject carefully, from a nutrition point of view, I have developed a few recipes that really work for loose stomachs and skinny cats. Do you want them and where should I publish them if so?
 

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Originally Posted by Malena

catmint
known also as catnip.


Good cooking recipes are always welcame. Especielly as most cat-rescuers arent thick with money.
Please write them down at our swedish forum too. These questions returns time and again.
 
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Here is the recepies:
Ingredients:
A fat chicken, 700 gram liver, hart and kidneys from, for example chicken (pork or beef is also ok), 250 gram minced meat from beef, 700 gram minced meat from pork, 150 gram corn, 150 gram peas or beans, a half leek, one carrot, 100 gram spinach and/or broccoli. Three potatoes, fairly big.
Boil the chicken in water that covers it, until the meat is lose from the bones. Take the chicken out of the water and let it cool of. Put he potatoes in the bullion with the peel on and let them get soft while you reduce the bullion without lid.
Mash the potatoes in the bullion. Run the rest of the vegetables in the mixer and put them in the potato – bullion. Let them boil with lid (to keep the vitamins) for 20 to 30 minutes
Cut liver and kidneys in small pieces and let them boil in separate water for 30 minutes. Pour that water a way after boiling.
Put the bullion/vegetable/potato mix in three pots.
In one put you put the skin and meat from the rinsed chicken in fine parts.
In the second pot you put the kidneys, liver, fine cut hart and the minced meat from beef and boil under lid for ten more minutes.
In the third pot you put the minced meat from pork and boil under lid for ten more minutes.
Now you have three dishes that your cats will love. It is enough for five kittens for one week.
If you have really loose stomachs among the kittens so be careful with the kidneys and liver.
 

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Originally Posted by Malena

I have read this forum thru and there are a few things I have a hard time finding an answer to.

1. How do you treat fleas, ear-scabies and worms on feral kittens?
- Without interrupting the socializing process.
- When kittens are still with mamas and mamas canâ€[emoji]8482[/emoji]t be approached.
- When kittens are really young.
2. When is it time for vaccination and can they be vaccinated against Chlamydeous when they might already carry it?
Our kittens have had the worst kind of Chlamydeous attacking both eyes and lungs. They have had two different kind of antibiotics treatments and a third antibiotic in an eye solution. They also had the sneezing disease and had nose drips with antibiotics.
We saved all eyes, the pneumonia is gone and I havenâ€[emoji]8482[/emoji]t heard sneezing in more than two weeks now. I am cooking special food for them to get their stomachs in order after the antibiotics. The diarrhoea is gone since a week and they are gaining weight now. But this really slowed down the socializing process, especially for two of the kittens.
They are de-wormed once.
I will ask somebody else to do the second de-worming so I donâ€[emoji]8482[/emoji]t have to be the “bad guy†again.

Since I learned a lot from you I want to share what I have learned during the process.

-When having to treat smaller kittens with unpleasant medication it really helps the socializing process to always finish every treatment with giving them the bottle. Even if they donâ€[emoji]8482[/emoji]t need it any more.
-When trying to pet a scared kitten it is good if they are a little sleepy and laying dark place where they feel safe. I rub my hands in catmint first and I made them both purr and fall a sleep while I am slowly striking them – even if they still are scared of me when they are on the floor.
-I am saving a lot of money by cooking for the cats and after studying the subject carefully, from a nutrition point of view, I have developed a few recipes that really work for loose stomachs and skinny cats. Do you want them and where should I publish them if so?
Great advice! I don't know about the Chlamydeous vaccine, but we usually start vaccinating our kittens at 6 weeks old.

I don't think cats and kittens lose socialization from treating for worms, etc. Unless you are doing daily treatments, like maybe the antibiotics you gave...I think cats and kittens forgive easily. Sometimes I wonder if they are so afraid of what we might do, that when we just pick them up, squirt medicine in their mouths, and put them down, they figure we aren't so scary after all, if that is all we can do!

I don't have any ideas for fleas on tiny babies, except bathe them with Dawn dishwashing liquid. And that would be hard with a tame kitty...I don't know if it is possible for a feral.

Some people take kittens from a feral Mom at about 4 weeks.

Thanks for your info, and for the recipe.
 
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