I have a 8 week old kitten, he was born a preemie. the mother nursed him up till 5 weeks when she got ill and had to go on meds. I started feeding him formula from a bottle with some wet kitten food as instructed by my vet.
Chip is now 8 weeks old he eats wet food uses the litter but is still the size of 4-6 week old kitten he doesn't even weigh 1lb yet and he is the length from the tips of my fingers to my wrist stretched out.
thats just a bit of info on him
The questions I have are this.. I still have to get up in the middle of the night to let him out of the box to eat and use the litter due to he still gets into everything and can't be trusted on his own and he is eating his kitty litter (i use the recycled newspaper pellets called yesterdays news) and he chokes on it, he doesn't get how to chew hard food but does chew his wet food and he doesn't want to drink water.. Plus I have another male(neuteured) cat in the house who was here before chip and cookie (mother) and he has his freak out moments and I saw him jump the kitten and go to bite his neck and he looked like he was going to hurt him it wasn't play.. chip is a male as well I have also noticed he hisses at everyone and does a complete freakout and runs away..he was never like this before. we resuced the mom cat in the winter, didn't know she was already pregnant until she dropped the kittens on us. she had 2 but the first one died ..as I think they were too early. even the vet told me she wasn't pregnant..LOL ahhh yeah error!
how do I get him to stop eating the litter? if I change it to reg kitty litter will it harm him if he eats it? I would really love to put a litter box in his (what his playpen...haha) so that I don't have to get up as much through the night to let him use his litter.
how do i get him to drink water? I water down his wet food during the day and less at night as to keep him hydrated but full.
not sure how to address the other male cat issue any advice would help
sorry if the post is all over im tired, caring for a preemie kitten is like having a newborn all over again and im way out of practice.
Chip is now 8 weeks old he eats wet food uses the litter but is still the size of 4-6 week old kitten he doesn't even weigh 1lb yet and he is the length from the tips of my fingers to my wrist stretched out.
thats just a bit of info on him
The questions I have are this.. I still have to get up in the middle of the night to let him out of the box to eat and use the litter due to he still gets into everything and can't be trusted on his own and he is eating his kitty litter (i use the recycled newspaper pellets called yesterdays news) and he chokes on it, he doesn't get how to chew hard food but does chew his wet food and he doesn't want to drink water.. Plus I have another male(neuteured) cat in the house who was here before chip and cookie (mother) and he has his freak out moments and I saw him jump the kitten and go to bite his neck and he looked like he was going to hurt him it wasn't play.. chip is a male as well I have also noticed he hisses at everyone and does a complete freakout and runs away..he was never like this before. we resuced the mom cat in the winter, didn't know she was already pregnant until she dropped the kittens on us. she had 2 but the first one died ..as I think they were too early. even the vet told me she wasn't pregnant..LOL ahhh yeah error!
how do I get him to stop eating the litter? if I change it to reg kitty litter will it harm him if he eats it? I would really love to put a litter box in his (what his playpen...haha) so that I don't have to get up as much through the night to let him use his litter.
how do i get him to drink water? I water down his wet food during the day and less at night as to keep him hydrated but full.
not sure how to address the other male cat issue any advice would help
sorry if the post is all over im tired, caring for a preemie kitten is like having a newborn all over again and im way out of practice.