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I have some bad news. As some of you may know I have a blue point siamese that had her first litter of kittens two weeks ago today. There were four in the litter. Yesterday, I noticed that one of the kittens was losing weight and breathing very hard. I tried to isolate him with the mother to get him to nurse. We would not nurse. I then tried bottle feeding him, but he would not take the nipple. He kept getting worse. Finally about eight last night I took him to the emergency vet. The vet knew immediately that he had a congenital heart defect. She said that he would survive 24 hours at the most. She said that the most kind decision that we could make would be to put him to sleep. He could barely breathe. We decided to take the vets advice.
Did anyone here ever have the same problem with siamese kittens? The mother and the father are both examined each year, neither of them has any heart problems.
Did anyone here ever have the same problem with siamese kittens? The mother and the father are both examined each year, neither of them has any heart problems.