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I brought a foster kitten home from a local rescue with what their vet called "failure to thrive". She is approx. 7 weeks old, has teeth, and was eating dry food in the rescue. She stopped eating and drinking and began to weaken. The rescue has lost 2 other kittens to this in the last week. Including my foster kitten's crate-mate.
When I brought her home her third eye was showing and she had faded to 14.2 oz.. She has only had very small droppings and those are bright yellow and completely liquid. I have started her on Clavamox, given her small amounts of canned food (she won't take much) and given her injections of lactated ringers solution to rehydrate her. She won't drink at all. She has a heating pad in her crate. The rescue vet couldn't pinpoint anything specific wrong with her or with the ones that died in the same way previous.
What do you folks make of it? Any advice would be much appreciated. It's not that the rescue doesn't care, but they don't have the staff to baby her along. If I know what to do I'll do it, but the rescue vet didn't have any recommendations. If there's medicine she needs the rescue will probably be able to get it for me. But the fact that 3 kittens have died of this (But not always crate-mates, and that's of about 30 kittens in the maternity ward, so not all or even close to all contracting it.) makes me worry that it's not just a fragile kitten, but something she's contracted. I don't know if I'm doing the right things, or enough of the right things. Would appreciate the voice of experience.
Kitten is responsive, but very, very weak. Not completely limp, but very frail. Her third eye emerges periodically, but never as much or as badly as before I brought her home. She is a fighter, but I'm afraid I'm running out of time.
When I brought her home her third eye was showing and she had faded to 14.2 oz.. She has only had very small droppings and those are bright yellow and completely liquid. I have started her on Clavamox, given her small amounts of canned food (she won't take much) and given her injections of lactated ringers solution to rehydrate her. She won't drink at all. She has a heating pad in her crate. The rescue vet couldn't pinpoint anything specific wrong with her or with the ones that died in the same way previous.
What do you folks make of it? Any advice would be much appreciated. It's not that the rescue doesn't care, but they don't have the staff to baby her along. If I know what to do I'll do it, but the rescue vet didn't have any recommendations. If there's medicine she needs the rescue will probably be able to get it for me. But the fact that 3 kittens have died of this (But not always crate-mates, and that's of about 30 kittens in the maternity ward, so not all or even close to all contracting it.) makes me worry that it's not just a fragile kitten, but something she's contracted. I don't know if I'm doing the right things, or enough of the right things. Would appreciate the voice of experience.
Kitten is responsive, but very, very weak. Not completely limp, but very frail. Her third eye emerges periodically, but never as much or as badly as before I brought her home. She is a fighter, but I'm afraid I'm running out of time.