Yesterday morning I got a call from my husband’s ex-wife. She works at a scrap metal yard and they checked in a scrap vehicle that had been brought in on Friday (4 days earlier) and found 4 two week old kittens that had been in the vehicle in 95 degree weather without their mom for 4 days. One had already passed away and the 3 survivors were in the WORST condition I had ever seen. They were nothing but skin and bones. I took them up to the shelter to see the vet there and he gave me fluids to give under the skin (3cc at a time because they weigh next to nothing) and gave them a special exotic cat formula while they were there.
One of them was so weak that I was certain he was going to die around 10pm last night so I gave him an extra bolus of fluids and it took 30min to get 2cc of KMR in him. Somehow, he made it and when I went to feed them every 2hr, he was a little stronger.
I’m doing everything I can think of to help them but if anyone has extra advice, I’m all ears! I’m giving them lactated ringer solution subcutaneously 3cc every 12hr, mixing their KMR with pedialyte and some Nutrical and syringe feeding them with a miracle nipple attachment and warming their rice socks every 2 hr when I feed them.
I have never seen an animal this skinny and frail. They shake when they stand because they have NO muscle mass at all. I’m doing all the regular things that I do for bottle babies but I don’t know if it’s enough. They have been through so much and are still fighting so I want to do my part. Any ideas?
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