Hi everyone, I'm new here and I need a bit of assistance. As a disclaimer, I wanna say that we dont have the money for a vet visit currently (we didn't even plan on keeping her but then she had babies).
I'll start from the beginning I guess.
On the 4th of July I brought home a stray kitty, we found her in the woods (presumably dumped as mountain lion food). We took her to my aunts house and gave very food and water as she was severely malnourished and just in rough shape. She came around quite quickly and started gaining weight and becoming more friendly. We had no clue she was pregnant (because she was so small when we found her) and the day we started thinking she might be, she gave birth to 4 healthy kittens. 2 boys and 2 girls.
There's some background, now I have an issue (actually 2). The kittens are about 4 weeks old now, and are nursing still as they should be, I have been worried about them getting enough milk because their bellies never look full so I looked at mamas nopples and one of them looks like this (I'll attach the image)
I've wiped it and looked more and it seems to be a sore? The nipple just sorta slants now and I cant tell if milk is coming from it. I'm worried that it might be an infection. Help?
Problem 2 is that mamas left eye is shut a bit and it seems to hurt a bit, it just started to look like that. One of the kittens eyes also has white goopy stuff and it is usually sealed shut with yellow stuff. We wiped the eye down gently to open it up and it was filled with white goopy eyeboogers and the eye just seems a bit smaller than the other. It closes back up usually after we open it (within a few hours) and I'm worried the kitten might lose sight in that eye. All the other kittens are playful and happy and have nothing wrong, just mama and the 1 kitten are struggling.
Any help or advice for home remedies or if I shoudk be concerned about the nipple thing would be appreciated. I'm not 100% familiar with baby kittens so I'm scared they'll get sick or something
I'll start from the beginning I guess.
On the 4th of July I brought home a stray kitty, we found her in the woods (presumably dumped as mountain lion food). We took her to my aunts house and gave very food and water as she was severely malnourished and just in rough shape. She came around quite quickly and started gaining weight and becoming more friendly. We had no clue she was pregnant (because she was so small when we found her) and the day we started thinking she might be, she gave birth to 4 healthy kittens. 2 boys and 2 girls.
There's some background, now I have an issue (actually 2). The kittens are about 4 weeks old now, and are nursing still as they should be, I have been worried about them getting enough milk because their bellies never look full so I looked at mamas nopples and one of them looks like this (I'll attach the image)
I've wiped it and looked more and it seems to be a sore? The nipple just sorta slants now and I cant tell if milk is coming from it. I'm worried that it might be an infection. Help?
Problem 2 is that mamas left eye is shut a bit and it seems to hurt a bit, it just started to look like that. One of the kittens eyes also has white goopy stuff and it is usually sealed shut with yellow stuff. We wiped the eye down gently to open it up and it was filled with white goopy eyeboogers and the eye just seems a bit smaller than the other. It closes back up usually after we open it (within a few hours) and I'm worried the kitten might lose sight in that eye. All the other kittens are playful and happy and have nothing wrong, just mama and the 1 kitten are struggling.
Any help or advice for home remedies or if I shoudk be concerned about the nipple thing would be appreciated. I'm not 100% familiar with baby kittens so I'm scared they'll get sick or something