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So me and my girlfriend recently adopted a kitten this Saturday from a rescue event.
Her name is Princess and she a sweet little girl. But sence taking her home we have been worried about her. In order to get a good understanding of what's going on, I'll start from the beginning. Before we adopted her, her online profile said that she was 12 weeks old and spayed. She was spayed the Thursday before we adopted her and her scar seems to havr some kind of surgery glue all around it.
Saturday night: first night home
When we brought Princess home for the first night in our home for the first night nothing seemes out of the ordinary. We got the same type of litter and food that thr foster had and she was very playfull. But during the night she did have 2 pee accidents and did not eat her wet food. And she did cough from time to time. We were told by the fosters that she was on wet food and litter trained. I didn't see her behavior as abnormal on thr first night since we just took her home.
Sunday: Second day
When waking up we discovered some throw up in her litter. At first we weren't sure what it was and cleaned it up. Wr tryed to feed her some wet food but she was not having any of it. We tryed heating it, hand feeding, and even put some in her mouth but she would just spit it out. She did on occasion cough. Later in the afternood she threw up again some liquid and chunks. At this point she was lathargic and not wanting to play. We tried to feed her again but she ended up throwing up a couple tablespoons of bile. She was starting to go downhill and fast so we imidently took her to a pet hospital. There she was given fluids and an anti nasua medicine. When taking to the doctor there he estimated that she was reallu only 8 weeks old and was very small for her size. He also gave us some nutri cal to give her every 4 hours via syringe until we are able to see a vet. When we took her home she still did not want to eat, so we gave her nutri cal until we saw the vet thr next day. Sence the hospital visit there has been no throw up.
Monday: Third day
Mid afternoon we took princess to a very good vet in town. We found out that she weights 1.27 pounds. The vet told us that she was very young and small to be spayed, was underweight, believed to be just under 8 weeks old, is missing fur under her mouth meaning she was recently weened off milk, and may not even know how to eat. This was all very shocking. She also said that her spay scar is abnormal and lumpy. She gave us some antibiotics (she may have some sort of infection eather respiratory or from her spay scar)and pain medication (pain medication because the foster told us that she wasn't on any after her spay) to take home. She recommend that we syringe feed her nutri cal, milk, and wet food every 4 hours and pain medication with anti biotics ever 12 hours.
Tuesday: Day three
Sence the visit we have been seeing improvement in princess. This morning we found some poop stuck to the back of her but fur so we gave her a bath. She took to it well. She has also been peeing in the litter every so often. We are still sticking to the syringe feeding she she noe has more engery and is getting better at eating. She still will not eat wet food but she is starting to drink milk from a dish. Im just afraid that I am doing either to much or to little. I just don't want to lose her. Currently we are giving her royal canin baby cat instinctive wet food, kmr, and nutri cal along with her medication. Any recommendations for a high calorie wet food to help weight gain? Will she ever eat wet food on her own?? Is she going to fade away??? Also any other advice on how to get her to start eating on her own? Any helpful advice or comments are welcomed!
Saturday night: first night home
When we brought Princess home for the first night in our home for the first night nothing seemes out of the ordinary. We got the same type of litter and food that thr foster had and she was very playfull. But during the night she did have 2 pee accidents and did not eat her wet food. And she did cough from time to time. We were told by the fosters that she was on wet food and litter trained. I didn't see her behavior as abnormal on thr first night since we just took her home.
Sunday: Second day
When waking up we discovered some throw up in her litter. At first we weren't sure what it was and cleaned it up. Wr tryed to feed her some wet food but she was not having any of it. We tryed heating it, hand feeding, and even put some in her mouth but she would just spit it out. She did on occasion cough. Later in the afternood she threw up again some liquid and chunks. At this point she was lathargic and not wanting to play. We tried to feed her again but she ended up throwing up a couple tablespoons of bile. She was starting to go downhill and fast so we imidently took her to a pet hospital. There she was given fluids and an anti nasua medicine. When taking to the doctor there he estimated that she was reallu only 8 weeks old and was very small for her size. He also gave us some nutri cal to give her every 4 hours via syringe until we are able to see a vet. When we took her home she still did not want to eat, so we gave her nutri cal until we saw the vet thr next day. Sence the hospital visit there has been no throw up.
Monday: Third day
Mid afternoon we took princess to a very good vet in town. We found out that she weights 1.27 pounds. The vet told us that she was very young and small to be spayed, was underweight, believed to be just under 8 weeks old, is missing fur under her mouth meaning she was recently weened off milk, and may not even know how to eat. This was all very shocking. She also said that her spay scar is abnormal and lumpy. She gave us some antibiotics (she may have some sort of infection eather respiratory or from her spay scar)and pain medication (pain medication because the foster told us that she wasn't on any after her spay) to take home. She recommend that we syringe feed her nutri cal, milk, and wet food every 4 hours and pain medication with anti biotics ever 12 hours.
Tuesday: Day three
Sence the visit we have been seeing improvement in princess. This morning we found some poop stuck to the back of her but fur so we gave her a bath. She took to it well. She has also been peeing in the litter every so often. We are still sticking to the syringe feeding she she noe has more engery and is getting better at eating. She still will not eat wet food but she is starting to drink milk from a dish. Im just afraid that I am doing either to much or to little. I just don't want to lose her. Currently we are giving her royal canin baby cat instinctive wet food, kmr, and nutri cal along with her medication. Any recommendations for a high calorie wet food to help weight gain? Will she ever eat wet food on her own?? Is she going to fade away??? Also any other advice on how to get her to start eating on her own? Any helpful advice or comments are welcomed!
