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Hello, first time poster and second time fostering kittens. I have a brother and sister right now, 6 weeks old. For the first few days they were fine but started getting diarrhea and losing weight.
We went to get them checked up at Humane Society (where I’m fostering from) and though their stool sample didn’t show any parasites they got started on a 5 day deworming med. It’s been around a week since then but they’re still having the same problems. Every time the boy has more than half a spoonful of wet food, it goes straight through him (a little gross but you can see the food chunks in his poo).
He’s now on a kibble/water gruel mix with just a bit of wet food so he takes interest and he’s slowly gaining weight but still has bad poops.
The girl is who I’m really worried about. 100 grams lighter than him, 566 to 670. She isn’t gaining the weight that she lost when she first came here. We switched the food a bit because we suspected it could be a food sensitivity (maybe to chicken) but she still has diarrhea (though darker) so we’ve gone back to their original food, watered kibble and little wet food.
I really need advice on how to help them.
We went to get them checked up at Humane Society (where I’m fostering from) and though their stool sample didn’t show any parasites they got started on a 5 day deworming med. It’s been around a week since then but they’re still having the same problems. Every time the boy has more than half a spoonful of wet food, it goes straight through him (a little gross but you can see the food chunks in his poo).
He’s now on a kibble/water gruel mix with just a bit of wet food so he takes interest and he’s slowly gaining weight but still has bad poops.
The girl is who I’m really worried about. 100 grams lighter than him, 566 to 670. She isn’t gaining the weight that she lost when she first came here. We switched the food a bit because we suspected it could be a food sensitivity (maybe to chicken) but she still has diarrhea (though darker) so we’ve gone back to their original food, watered kibble and little wet food.
I really need advice on how to help them.