My manx had kittens (3 weeks ago,) the issue is we now notice that the oldest who is the smallest (which is a manx too) his rib cage feels flat he is not as active as the "bigger" younger one and I was just wondering if anyone else had a kitten who had a flat rib cage the "other" kitten is round and chubby. The youngest manx of the litter had to be put down at 1 week due to spinabifida, he would not of lasted long it was fairly severe. That was difficult but this is harder because we want to try and help this little one
OMG I just went to a web site that talked about flat chested kittens it is called FCK and it is indetermined what causes it(possibly inproper diet of the mother cat or something, I dunnoknow)we can put a sling around his ribcage to try and improve the syndrome, the sling is easy to make (out of a tiolet paper roll and tighten abit it can help with breathing, which we did notice the little guy breathing heavy of little exercise. The fact that he survived this long is one milestone but if there is no or little improvement by 16-18weeks chances are he could die. Apparently he could improve with in a week or two please pray for our little one I will give you updates I will probably get some KMR just to help supplement him with more nutrients they say that always helps too.
Thanks
Pepperjack
OMG I just went to a web site that talked about flat chested kittens it is called FCK and it is indetermined what causes it(possibly inproper diet of the mother cat or something, I dunnoknow)we can put a sling around his ribcage to try and improve the syndrome, the sling is easy to make (out of a tiolet paper roll and tighten abit it can help with breathing, which we did notice the little guy breathing heavy of little exercise. The fact that he survived this long is one milestone but if there is no or little improvement by 16-18weeks chances are he could die. Apparently he could improve with in a week or two please pray for our little one I will give you updates I will probably get some KMR just to help supplement him with more nutrients they say that always helps too.
Thanks
Pepperjack