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Hi I rescued my kitten 7 weeks ago from someone who wanted it gone quickly on the internet. My heart went out to her. She was extremely malnourished, I could see majority of her bones, her fur was patchy. She had worms and fleas etc
They claimed she was 3 months old (which I questioned them about when I collected her as she was tiny!).
I took her straight to the vet the next day to her checked over, worn treatment, which I had to syringe feed as she was only 1kg. The vet couldn’t be certain of her age at the time.
1st day:
I visited the vet 3 weeks later for her 2nd injection and she weighed 1.4kg (despite me feeding her constantly ), the vet said that all he could determine was that she was still under 4 months as her permanent teeth hadn’t started coming through. And possibly she was 3 months. That was now 3 weeks ago.
I’m hoping someone might be able to help me work out how old she is as she’s still incredibly tiny, which could be due to the malnourishment? I’m guessing she’s now around 3.5 months? So she would have been around 8 weeks when I got her?
This is her now: she’s still so tiny!
This a recent pic of her and my 9 month fur baby Loki - to compare their size difference. He was twice her size at 4 months
I checked her teeth yesterday and it doesn’t seem like she’s teething yet.
I want to try and narrow her age better to work out when to get her spayed. Vet said once she’s bigger and reaches over 2kg.
She’s been wormed regularly and eats 4 meals per day, plus biscuits out freely. But she doesn’t seem to be growing, she’s only marginally bigger from when I first got her.
Any advice welcome.
Thanks
They claimed she was 3 months old (which I questioned them about when I collected her as she was tiny!).
I took her straight to the vet the next day to her checked over, worn treatment, which I had to syringe feed as she was only 1kg. The vet couldn’t be certain of her age at the time.
1st day:
I visited the vet 3 weeks later for her 2nd injection and she weighed 1.4kg (despite me feeding her constantly ), the vet said that all he could determine was that she was still under 4 months as her permanent teeth hadn’t started coming through. And possibly she was 3 months. That was now 3 weeks ago.
I’m hoping someone might be able to help me work out how old she is as she’s still incredibly tiny, which could be due to the malnourishment? I’m guessing she’s now around 3.5 months? So she would have been around 8 weeks when I got her?
This is her now: she’s still so tiny!
This a recent pic of her and my 9 month fur baby Loki - to compare their size difference. He was twice her size at 4 months
I checked her teeth yesterday and it doesn’t seem like she’s teething yet.
I want to try and narrow her age better to work out when to get her spayed. Vet said once she’s bigger and reaches over 2kg.
She’s been wormed regularly and eats 4 meals per day, plus biscuits out freely. But she doesn’t seem to be growing, she’s only marginally bigger from when I first got her.
Any advice welcome.
Thanks