Quick background: I brought Smudge home last week as a foster aged 4/5 weeks and weighing 13 ounces. She was very straggly and thin, and very unhealthy looking but had spunk.
Took her for a check up back at the shelter on Monday and she didn't look any better and she's lost an ounce!! They said she may have a congenital digestive problem which is stopping her digesting food properly, and if that's the case, probably wouldn't live. I went home very upset, and bought her much better quality tinned food, and started giving her my own mush with tinned food, dry food, baby food, Pedialyte, KMR, a high calorie kitten supplement and also some Bene-Bac mixed in. I mixed up a batch and heated it and gave it to her 3 times a day as well as KMR mixed with Pedialyte to try and get her fluids up as she was quite dehydrated.
She also got fluids and dewormed while she was at the shelter on Monday.
I took her back today, and she's put on 3 OUNCES IN 3 DAYS!!!! WOOHOOO!!!!! So she's now 15 ounces. They said she looks fantastic, had a good feel of her, and said her back especially already felt sooo much less bony, she had a good sized belly now, her eyes looked heaps better, and she generally looks like a healthy kitten (albeit a small one!).
She definitely seems a lot better - she's soooo playful now. She bounces around everywhere, loves to play with us, and yells at me if I'm a bit late feeding her in the mornings
She's just had a feed, and is quiet, so is probably napping at the moment. When she's awake I'll take some more photos so you can have a before and after photo and see how much she's changed in a week!
Took her for a check up back at the shelter on Monday and she didn't look any better and she's lost an ounce!! They said she may have a congenital digestive problem which is stopping her digesting food properly, and if that's the case, probably wouldn't live. I went home very upset, and bought her much better quality tinned food, and started giving her my own mush with tinned food, dry food, baby food, Pedialyte, KMR, a high calorie kitten supplement and also some Bene-Bac mixed in. I mixed up a batch and heated it and gave it to her 3 times a day as well as KMR mixed with Pedialyte to try and get her fluids up as she was quite dehydrated.
She also got fluids and dewormed while she was at the shelter on Monday.
I took her back today, and she's put on 3 OUNCES IN 3 DAYS!!!! WOOHOOO!!!!! So she's now 15 ounces. They said she looks fantastic, had a good feel of her, and said her back especially already felt sooo much less bony, she had a good sized belly now, her eyes looked heaps better, and she generally looks like a healthy kitten (albeit a small one!).
She definitely seems a lot better - she's soooo playful now. She bounces around everywhere, loves to play with us, and yells at me if I'm a bit late feeding her in the mornings
She's just had a feed, and is quiet, so is probably napping at the moment. When she's awake I'll take some more photos so you can have a before and after photo and see how much she's changed in a week!
