Yesterday I brought all 4 kittens to the vet for a check up, and to check smudge's diarrhoea.
They were all bouncing around and lively, and last night guzzled down their milk.
This morning I opened the box and saw the 2 tabbys standing over a stretched out little kovu.. he wasn't moving.. I thought he was dead..
I picked him up and felt a flicker of life, and rushed to warm him up and call the vet. He was floppy and lifeless, but I put a hot water bottle under a towel in a shoebox, and microwaved a beanbag thingy and tucked him in and set off. The vet was doing surgery so I had to wait for about 20 minutes, and in that time he came a bit to life with the heat.. it was kind of good I was delayed to see her, because I am sure if they saw him before he snapped out of it, they would have euthanised him..
Anyways.. he is dehydrated (how? He drank lots of milk last night) and was chilled and had gone into some sort of shut down.. my only thoughts are he rolled away from the hot water bottle in the box last night..
He was given fluids under the skin, and antibiotics, steroids I think.. Denise tried to put him in with a mother cat and her kittens, but they are also from my shelter, and I know her kittens are 8 weeks old and barely still suckling, so Fleur, the mother cat didn't accept Kovu.
So I took him back and have him now in the shoebox on my lap.. he has just moved a bit to move into a warmer area.. which is good considering an hour ago he couldn't support his own head..
He isn't eating.. and Denise said if he still refuses soon to syringe it into him..
I just think he doesn't have the energy.
I am in bits over this, is there anything I can do? I didn't realise how much I love these angels until now..
They were all bouncing around and lively, and last night guzzled down their milk.
This morning I opened the box and saw the 2 tabbys standing over a stretched out little kovu.. he wasn't moving.. I thought he was dead..
Anyways.. he is dehydrated (how? He drank lots of milk last night) and was chilled and had gone into some sort of shut down.. my only thoughts are he rolled away from the hot water bottle in the box last night..
He was given fluids under the skin, and antibiotics, steroids I think.. Denise tried to put him in with a mother cat and her kittens, but they are also from my shelter, and I know her kittens are 8 weeks old and barely still suckling, so Fleur, the mother cat didn't accept Kovu.
So I took him back and have him now in the shoebox on my lap.. he has just moved a bit to move into a warmer area.. which is good considering an hour ago he couldn't support his own head..
He isn't eating.. and Denise said if he still refuses soon to syringe it into him..
I just think he doesn't have the energy.
I am in bits over this, is there anything I can do? I didn't realise how much I love these angels until now..