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Hi,
We discovered our two year old girl was pregnant and expected that she would have kittens towards end of January 2018, so prepared as much as possible.
We set up a birthing pen, welping box, heated pet pad (for when it is needed), blankets and also started feeding her kitten food (gradually).
However, when we switched her onto the kitten food, she begun having terrible diarrhea. We were really concerned that the kittens may not be getting all the nutrition they needed as whatever was going in, was coming straight back out. She has been wormed as usual and prior to the pregnancy and kitten food, her toilet trips were quite normal.
At 11pm on 31/01/2018, she went into labour. As I expected, the kittens are very underweight, three survived, 1 was sadly still born.
The kittens are still alive and two reach 60g when weighed earlier this morning (8am). Mum seems to be feeding them regularly. I decided not to put the heated pet pad on as I was concerned they may overheat - instead i've turned the heating up in the room to a nice temperature.
Mum is doing as well as she can and is happy for me to weight them etc, I am concerned however about supplementing them with KMR - can anyone give me some advice on what i can do.
I am preparing for the worst as i know there is a very high chance that they may not pull through, but i want to make sure i'm giving them a really good chance!
Thanks.
We discovered our two year old girl was pregnant and expected that she would have kittens towards end of January 2018, so prepared as much as possible.
We set up a birthing pen, welping box, heated pet pad (for when it is needed), blankets and also started feeding her kitten food (gradually).
However, when we switched her onto the kitten food, she begun having terrible diarrhea. We were really concerned that the kittens may not be getting all the nutrition they needed as whatever was going in, was coming straight back out. She has been wormed as usual and prior to the pregnancy and kitten food, her toilet trips were quite normal.
At 11pm on 31/01/2018, she went into labour. As I expected, the kittens are very underweight, three survived, 1 was sadly still born.
The kittens are still alive and two reach 60g when weighed earlier this morning (8am). Mum seems to be feeding them regularly. I decided not to put the heated pet pad on as I was concerned they may overheat - instead i've turned the heating up in the room to a nice temperature.
Mum is doing as well as she can and is happy for me to weight them etc, I am concerned however about supplementing them with KMR - can anyone give me some advice on what i can do.
I am preparing for the worst as i know there is a very high chance that they may not pull through, but i want to make sure i'm giving them a really good chance!
Thanks.