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My connection is bad and having trouble uploading...
Anyway, he's doing well...it sounds weird but his coloring is better. He has good energy and is getting used to me. He eats a lot but not on his own. Still syringe feeding, mixing canned with replacement milk, and sometimes just some liquid gravy from fancy feast gravy lovers canned food. He really enjoys the later. I put the syringe in front of him and he leans forward on his own and starts sucking on it...he eats quite a bit (I'm feeding him every 2-3 hours or so) and when he's full he stops and looks up at me. I brought my 5-year-old Ashley who is the king of the cats here in there and put the food in front of him with the little guy right next to him to watch Ashley eat, but he didn't get the hint.
The bad news is he has ticks. I noticed them last night and pulled them all off, and today he has more. Pulled them but every time I think I'm done I see another. So, it's off to the vet's to get his ears examined...the tech said she's seen kittens in his situation with the ticks inside the ears and they come out that way. They do seem to be concentrated on his head and around the ears. So, that needs to be taken care of...I'm sure he'll love the ride again.
Runningdawg
(4,517 posts)joeybee12
(56,177 posts)GoCubsGo
(32,086 posts)I have yet to meet a cat that doesn't love it. He might still be too young to eat on his own, or maybe he prefers pate-style food. Most of the gravy lovers I know lick off the gravy and leave most or all of the solid stuff, but will devour a can of the pate version in seconds. Or, maybe he might find the FF "Broths" to his liking.
Happy to hear he's doing well.
joeybee12
(56,177 posts)First Melanie, then Scarlet and then India all had chronic renal failure in their later years and this was all they would eat so so some of the kittens were raised on it also because it's impossible to separate food from cats...they won't have it!
nolabear
(41,984 posts)Moms lick their little ones to help stimulate digestion and elimination, so while he's still being syringe fed it'll help him a lot.
Damned ticks. You're his hero.
joeybee12
(56,177 posts)He's a messy eater so he gets cleaned with it after he eats as well.
nolabear
(41,984 posts)Daemonaquila
(1,712 posts)I'm glad he's better. Yeah, the tick thing probably means he's really anemic, but the vet can help with that. Don't worry too much about him not eating on his own at that age. He'll get it. He just needs to feel better and have a little time.
joeybee12
(56,177 posts)And even though he has tiny teeth he can really chomp down...I should know, my fingers got a little too close to where he was sucking the syringe and he tried to get some of the stuff off my fingers...yikes!
auntpurl
(4,311 posts)joeybee12
(56,177 posts)packman
(16,296 posts)a few more months and you'll be ready.
Yeah, I think he knows whose boss already.
B2G
(9,766 posts)who was found on a construction site. He's the sweetest little tuxedo boy imaginable...except for when he's being a jackhole.
joeybee12
(56,177 posts)Just love the look of them.
B2G
(9,766 posts)But he had chemical burns on his pads, fleas, roundworms and giardia when we got him.
He's all fixed up right as rain now...and absolutely stunning! Looking forward to the neutering in October. Lol.
tclambert
(11,087 posts)joeybee12
(56,177 posts)But the computer can't upload. BTW, the little guy is a lynx point siamese. I already have one, who is probably his half-brother because Mom refuses to go into the traps, and until I got a siamese I didn't realize how many different kinds there were.
3catwoman3
(24,006 posts)We have a little peanut of a lynx point girl - just under 6 pounds at 12 years old. Like having a forever kitten. She still likes to chase her tail.
She's so dainty that her big blue eyes take up most of her teeny tiny face.
joeybee12
(56,177 posts)They were goopy from the URI but that is clearing up...gorgeous.
3catwoman3
(24,006 posts)The only way I can describe it is that it feels almost as if the is a fellow human in there staring out at you.
tclambert
(11,087 posts)bench scientist
(1,107 posts)joeybee12
(56,177 posts)japple
(9,831 posts)ticks (and fleas will do it too) might have given him anemia, but it sounds like you're doing all the right things for his little highness! He's going to start following you around crying "ma-ma, ma-ma!"
joeybee12
(56,177 posts)She's now only 3 months and followa me everywhere. She's interested in who is in the bathroom but she had URI also so she needs to stay away from him for a bit for both their sake.
jpak
(41,758 posts)Soon, I promise.
hamsterjill
(15,221 posts)You rock!! You are awesome!
My sincerest thanks to you for what you're doing, have done, and will do in the future.
joeybee12
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Warpy
(111,270 posts)and you know he'll be healthier afterward.
He might be younger than 4 weeks if he's not interested in food in a saucer, so you're doing a good thing with the KMR and food mixed in a syringe. Since he's an eager little piggie, it means he's decided to live, after all.
I'm noticing a lot more Siamese and Siamese mixes among feral kittens out there. I imagine a lot of really dumb people are getting them because they're "purdy" but when a female Siamese, already vocal, goes into heat because they didn't cough up the money to get her spayed, she becomes nearly impossible to tolerate and out she goes.
I wish people would get fully informed about the breed before they get them. They're not for everyone. However, they're wonderful cats, especially for people who just talk back to them, because they're incredibly loyal.
joeybee12
(56,177 posts)And now he purrs when I pick him up. The good news is during the night he started eating on his own. Still using the syringe but I can cut back and start weaning him.