Last week I took in a bottle baby kitten. She is about 2 and 1/2 weeks old now. Today I took her into work to have her looked at by one of the vets because she has be constipated. When the vet was examing her, she said that her kidneys where about 3 times the size they should be. Then I started thinking. She consumes about 120mls of formula a day and urinates gigantic puddles. The vet also said that her kidneys felt very irregular.
For now we have decided to keep going since she is very active and seems like an otherwise normal kitten. We plan on monitoring her weight to make sure she continues to grow well and doing bloodwork if/when she is a bit bigger.
This brings me to my questions. Does anyone have any idea why she may be having kidney problems at such a young age? And is there anything I can do to help with the SEVERE constipation? I really hate to have to keep bringing her in for enemas and such. I do stimlate her and I have tried adding oil to her bottle but none of it helps.
Any thoughts?
For now we have decided to keep going since she is very active and seems like an otherwise normal kitten. We plan on monitoring her weight to make sure she continues to grow well and doing bloodwork if/when she is a bit bigger.
This brings me to my questions. Does anyone have any idea why she may be having kidney problems at such a young age? And is there anything I can do to help with the SEVERE constipation? I really hate to have to keep bringing her in for enemas and such. I do stimlate her and I have tried adding oil to her bottle but none of it helps.
Any thoughts?