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Please help. All the sudden my kitten became lifeless won't eat move or drink.
You have saved her life! You have SAVED HER. OMG congratulations!Oh my goodness guys .... I did what you said and she peed and pooped all over me and guess what..... She's up and walking around. Literally 5 min later!!! She's still weak but she's moving!!!! Oh my goodness. She's purring too. Oh I'm so happy. I will keep a close eye on her and she will be going to the vet in the morning. She's one of my children now!!!! Thank you thank you thank you. Thank you.
Can you elaborate on the correct body position for feeding? :-)Okay now I hate to be the bearer of bad news to bring you down from your excitement, but there's more to it than that.
She was stimulated and went potty because you stimulated her, but she is not out of the woods.
4 week olds do NOT need stimulating, but of course if they are stimulated they will go.
There are several major things here I want you to think about and know about with babies.
Number one and two are huge, and equally important. One is, NEVER take her outside. Only held in your arms. They have no immunity to all of the gazillion viruses lurking, in grass, all over. Adult cats and vaccinated cats come and go fine, and you would never have any idea of just how many there are and how they are literally, EVERYWHERE.
The next one is bottle feeding. The majority of kittens who are bottle fed by kind hearted people like yourself who die? They are held in an incorrect position, it seems right, and they eat well, but many get pneumonia, by being held on their back like a baby and fed, which easily causes them to inhale even a teeny drop, and get pneumonia, and they die. There is no saving a baby from this. It is the single most common way for young kittens to die.
These are my two cents of what is happening to her.
If it is the first one, and she has contracted a virus, the main thing in getting her through it if it is infact a simple virus and not the bigger deadly ones like panleukopenia (puppy parvo) then it will take her 3 solid days to work it through her system and her to get well.
The single thing that will determine if you can save her or not is simply hydration. Dehydrated kittens die fast, there is barely any reserve of water in a young kitten like this, it's like a tablespoon or some rediculously small amt.
So when they have a fever, it gets dried up, or if their appetite goes down, they get dried up.
You MUST make absolutely certain she is taking in just as much as she was before this.
Can I ask where you live?My avatar pic is my baby kitty you all just helped me save :-)