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Hello, currently I’m fostering a 6-7 week old kitten from Humane Society. She was about .8 pd when I received her and absolutely covered in her own poop. After two days she’s been cleaned up but still has a terrible diarrhea problem. Additionally she’s been dropping weight since this morning despite her near perk up yesterday. I’m incredibly worried as I’m kind of a newbie to fostering.
She’s almost completely lost her appetite since this morning and her last meal was almost 100% syringe-fed, which she was pretty upset about. Right now she’s at about 340g and lost any desire to drink KMR by herself or have KMR/wet food gruel through the syringe. Her energy seems to have dropped since this afternoon and now she seems very sleepy and just goes back to her hot water bottle.
Does anyone have any advice on how to help her pull through this? I’m not sure if forcing any bit of food through a syringe would help or hurt. The Humane Society I’m fostering with offers a clinic to give her a checkup but they’re very about an hour away and overloaded with kitten season and seem to have very limited resources. I have a private vet I could visit but until then, what works best with this kitten?
Thank you in advance for any replies
She’s almost completely lost her appetite since this morning and her last meal was almost 100% syringe-fed, which she was pretty upset about. Right now she’s at about 340g and lost any desire to drink KMR by herself or have KMR/wet food gruel through the syringe. Her energy seems to have dropped since this afternoon and now she seems very sleepy and just goes back to her hot water bottle.
Does anyone have any advice on how to help her pull through this? I’m not sure if forcing any bit of food through a syringe would help or hurt. The Humane Society I’m fostering with offers a clinic to give her a checkup but they’re very about an hour away and overloaded with kitten season and seem to have very limited resources. I have a private vet I could visit but until then, what works best with this kitten?
Thank you in advance for any replies