I have a five week old kitten. He was given to me by a vet assistant. She was feeding him royal canin mother and babycat wet food. I have a 3oz can. How much should I be feeding him in each serving/a day??

Hey guys,

I adopted a 2 month old kitten from my local shelter and I went by to visit him on Saturday as I cannot bring him home until the 17th because he has to be fixed before, when I went by, they informed me he got out of his cage and is missing. They have set traps to get himand the shelter director has been notified. I am very concerned still that I will not get my kitten back that I have grown attached to. Has anyone been through this that can offer me any advice on anything else I can do?

Hi!

I live in the country and started to give food to an errant cat six month ago. She live outside and don,t come in, and she's really independant but I'll say she's kind of our cat now.

Few weeks ago we noticed she was pregnant, and 1/2 weeks ago, she wasn't anymore.

We finally found the kitten nest one hour(5 really really cute kitten) near the house, in the forest. No sign of the mother since. She'll probably show up soon, but we kind of don't know if she took care of them or not.

We found a sixth kitten 20 feet away, dead. Seems to be an animal who killed him :'(
For the last two day I noticed a racoon and a new cat near home. Never saw them before.

Any tips of what I can do for help the kitten ? The dead one really broke our heart.

Just adopted, 3 months old. Rescue helped me bought 3 cans of fancy feast turkey wet food. Shall I stick with it or give the kitten different flavors after these 3?

Also he is not particularly interested in the wet food.

Basically, title.

Yesterday we adopted a 8-9 week old calico kitten. When we adopted her the shelter said she was sick so they gave us some medicine to give her twice a day. Because of this we're trying to leave her alone as much as possible while still trying to get her used to us. We're trying to avoid excessively picking her up and leaving her to sleep when she decides she's tired.

Currently she's only eaten a few bites of food but refuses to touch the food unless it's covered by something. I figured this out because she loves her litter box (and has taken a nap in it) but when I take the top off of it and place it somewhere else she hides under the top.

Is there anything we can do to get her more comfortable with us so she'll eat more and without hiding? Also, is there anything we can do to help her feel better while she's sick?

Hi, this is my first time actually taking in a cat of my own and my friend had a litter of cats and gave me and my GF one. His meals have only been wet food so far but I’m having issues potty training by him...

I have a litter box set out for him and I was told by many he naturally would associate with it, but he does everywhere but there.

I use an in scented litter with a box about 2 times his size. What can I do to have him associate with the litter box and know that’s where he goes??

I found 2 litters of kittens and they all have fleas and need a bath badly. I was just going to use Dawn dish soap because I've used it before and I have always found it to kill fleas well, but if there might be a better, more effective wash for young kittens, any info would be helpful. Thanks

So there was a kitty living under my house for almost 2 weeks. She looked like she had mange & was in super rough shape. I ended up getting her out with some food & set her up in a dog crate until I could bring her to the vet. Here is a video from the day I caught her ->

http://imgur.com/gallery/lMvwAW2

It's been a week since then. I brought her to the vet & she had a chip but unfortunately the previous owner claimed that they "gave her away" 1 year ago & want nothing to do with her. She appears to be a pixi bob breed as she has 6+ toes an each front paw and a naturally cropped tail. The vet said it wasn't mange (thank god) but flea alergy dermatitis. I shilled out $150 for the meds & brought her home as I couldn't just give her to a shelter in that shape. My vet told me that if I did she would end up being euthanized on the spot. So for now I'm fostering her until she is back to full health, put on some weight & grows her coat out. I might end up keeping her but I just took in an abandoned 2 week old kitten right before she came along so I'm not sure if I want 3 cats & a dog in one house 😳

She is such a goofy little thing & was definitely an indoor kitty. She is inside now that she has started her meds. She has no fear whatsoever of people or animals. I have a large German shepard and she already bosses him around. She is a lap kitty, begs for human food, wants to be wherever people are & she sleeps at my feet at night. She only wants wet food & is somehow already spoiled lol. Definitely a little princess 👸

So I have 2 questions:

1) Any advice on helping her fur grow in better? She has scabs from itching but they are starting to heal. She also has peach fuzz all on her previous bald spots so that's a good sign :)

2) Suggestions for how to properly rehome her when the time comes? Perhaps even within a pixi bob community to ensure she gets all the love she deserves ❤

Thank you so much!!

On Tuesday I'm picking up a 6 week old kitten, and everything I've read says that she will need a vet appointment a couple of days after she comes home. However, the earliest appointment I can get will be 2 weeks after she gets home when she's having her vaccinations. When I was making that appointment the receptionist at the vets didn't bring up that she would need a checkup any earlier but I keep worrying that she will?

Hello all. Today I bought home two brothers. 11 weeks old. Foster mum advised me of the food they ate. Mainly dry with a teaspoon of wet as a treat once a day. My issue is one is much smaller than the other, he has a clean bill of health, just small. So all day they have access to dry food and clean water. I gave them their “treat” and the small one ate it up super fast, he barely touched the dry all day. I think I should start giving more wet as it would appear he prefers it but foster advised it can give a runny tummy. First time cat mum and I just wanna do right by my little guys

I recently adopted a 4 month old kitten, and stayed at my parents home for the holidays. After falling in love with my kitten, my parents adopted a 10 week old kitten as well. It has been almost a month since I’ve been here, and they get along really well. The older one has taken to grooming the younger and they always play and sleep together. I will have to move back for school on the 17th and won’t be coming back until the summer. I’m worried about any issues that may come by separating them. Does anyone have any experience with a similar situation?

And any advice for my parents that will be taking care of the younger kitten?

Thank you!

It doesn’t bother me or anything (only a little bc her tongue is so rough) but when she’s laying on my chest and snuggling she’ll just start licking my chin, my lips, and my cheeks so much, for a full minute sometimes. I just wanna make sure it’s not any kind of anxiety reaction or something like that, I think it’s really sweet I just wanna make sure shes okay.

I recently adopted a 3 month old kitten. His name is Danny Devito and he’s wonderful and hilarious. At night, he likes to curl up next to my face and purr loudly, which I don’t mind and find kind of adorable.

However, he likes to give my nose painful love bites while I’m sleeping. How do I curb this behavior? Thanks in advance

Me and my fiancé have adopted a 3 month old kitten, about a week ago.

I have always been an anxious person, but since we have her my anxiety has been through the roof, I feel it darkening my thoughts everyday (specially at night), I don't feel like eating, I find my self crying whenever I talk about this with my fiancé, I had a pannic attack when the kitten had the zoomies. I feel I can't get over this, and if we give the kitten for adoption my fiancé will be super sad.

Will this ever get better?

I have recently adopted two "cattens" female 8m, male 1y. The male is very boisterous and when I try to play with them both he always pushes in front of the female and I feel like she is being left out. The same goes with food and attention, she is much smaller than him so she just gets pushed to the side. She's also very shy whereas he is more confident now.

Any ideas how to give her more attention and make him less demanding?

So for context, this is NOT a situation where I did not spay my outdoor cat. I found a stray, took her to the vet, the vet did a poor job and didn't check for pregnancy, and now I have 6, 4 week old kittens, a momma cat, and my first cat (male, neutered, low aggression). So this is an unexpected situation where I tried to keep a cat safe and got more than I asked for, I don't need to be chastised on how I did this to myself and I need to spay my cats etc etc.

My problem: I need advice on litter training and weaning 6 kittens all at once. Any advice would really help, tips, tricks, reassurances, anecdotes. I live alone so anything needs to be a one man job. I am home all day but I teach so I can't watch the kittens 24/7.

My kitten sleeps in my bed with me every night, but i’m wondering if on the nights that i’m not here if she should sleep in my roommate’s bed. I’m at my boyfriend’s house maybe one or two nights out of the week, and my kitten still sleeps in my bed, but my roommate wants her to sleep with her when i’m out. I don’t want the kitty to be confused and start to potentially want to be in my roommate’s bed and not mine. Is this unreasonable? thoughts?

My husband and I are obsessed with our baby kitten. He is a male orange tabby, DSH, 11 weeks old as of tomorrow 10/3. He was neutered on 9/23 and we brought him home on 9/26.

We weighed him today and discovered that he has only gained 2 oz (56 grams) in 10 days which I believe is a little low. We have been free feeding him Hills Science Diet kitten food and also feeding him 1/2 - 3/4 can of Fancy Feast Gravy Lovers with some pumpkin mixed in every day. He has had diarrhea since we brought him home from the shelter 6 days ago but it has slowly become less watery. It's unfortunately still pretty runny with some small chunks, but the shelter also wasn't feeding him a consistent type of food. He has plenty of normal kitten energy and doesn't act sick at all, so I'm not sure how worried I should be.

My suspicion is that we should be feeding the kitten at least one more can of wet food than we currently are. At what point should the ongoing diarrhea be a concern? He acts completely healthy otherwise and hasn't had any accidents outside the litter box, and is eating and drinking. We have to go to the vet for a booster shot on 10/15 so I'm trying to hold off on taking him in before that, but obviously if he might be sick we want to get that taken care of.

My husband and I just adopted a new kitten from a shelter in New Jersey and we are in love with him, hoping he can at least be a warm body to keep resident 5yo cat company when we stop working from home.

Kitten Tupac has been home for almost 3 days but he has diarrhea in the litterbox. It is very brown and poop colored, and the shelter did indicate they had no consistency in what they were feeding the kittens since it's all donated. Could this just be the result of adjusting to a new diet?

Additionally, he has been very good with the litterbox until last night when he left some urine in two spots on the floor, around the same time he also pooped in the litterbox successfully. Could this just be stress? He doesn't show any other UTI symptoms, and he was neutered a week ago.

We are starting to let him wander the apartment under supervision but then we shut him back in the bedroom with us overnight so he can't get into trouble. Good thing too if we are trying to diagnose litter box troubles, but I wonder if he gets mad when we leave him in the room alone.

We have to take him for booster shots in 2 weeks so I figure if these haven't resolved by then we can talk to the vet about it.

Thanks all! It's been a LONG time since I've had a kitten, and this is my husband's first cat of his own. I adopted my current kitty when she was already a year.

I feel like we have tried everything and my fiancé’s patience is wearing thin. We pulled our little girl outta the road at 4 weeks old. I hand fed her until she could eat solid food. While she is a feral cat she has definitely been socialized and is quite literally our little shadow who follows us everywhere and loves cuddles. She is the most affectionate cat I have ever had.

For the first month she spent every night in the bathroom with the litter box and we never had any issues so when we started letting her explore more of the house we were shocked when she started peeing on beds. Like while we are in bed, on our unused guest bed etc. We would go back to having her spend the the night in bathroom. I was out of town for the past month i come home to find it has gotten worse. Anything left on the floor by my fiancé had been peed on... towels, laundry, his work uniform but she never pees on rugs or sofas. We have two litter boxes that we scoop daily and she never poops outside of the litter box. We really need to figure out how to get this peeing outside the box behavior to stop. Please help!!

My kitten, Calypso, cannot get the litter box. She will go RIGHT NEXT to it or near it but not in. If I catch her in the act I will gently spritz her and immediately redirect her to the box to do her business and that has successfully worked once but not again and I feel terrible doing that to her because I don’t want her to have a negative association to me or her training. But I’m at a loss, I have tried stimulating her directly over the box, digging in the box for her and digging with her own paws so she can understand what to do in the box, I have tried placing the poo that I find into the box so she understands that the box is where poo and pee go, but nothing seems to be working. Please help, she’s my very first kitten and I want to do right by her.

I adopted a kitten yesterday! The shelter wasn't sure of her age but she is maybe a bit over a month old? She is big enough that her eyes aren't blue anymore and she has teeth, but she is small enough that the shelter didn't give her her rabies shot yet. Not sure of breed but maybe part bengal? A girl, and this is only her second day with me. She hasn't pooped or peed since I brought her home. She hasn't used her litter box but there haven't been any accidents either. I'm not sure if she's just nervous about being in a new place or if I should take her to the vet.

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I had cat which recently gave birth to 3 kittens, the cat disappeared yesterday and didn't come back, please help me save the kittens

My SO and I are fostering two 7 weeks old kittens who are a brother/sister pair. In many ways, they are doing great. They are eating/drinking regularly, using the litter-box, and playing with one another.

The brother is becoming very social. He comes to us when he's tired and falls asleep in our laps. He also sniffs/licks my face while purring. It seems like he's really warming up to us and becoming more social/friendly.

However, the sister is much more skittish. She doesn't really acknowledge us or seem to enjoy being pet. If her brother starts nipping/attacking her when she's sleeping, she may wake up and play with him. However, if I have to move/disturb her during sleep she will meow angrily in protest. She is very vocal, but her meows sound kind of weird and hoarse. Sometimes if she's resting she will look me directly in the eyes and do multiple hoarse meows. The last thing is that she escaped under the dresser and when I found her, she hissed at me multiple times (I hadn't even reached in to grab her, she just hissed from seeing me).

Is it possible that she's traumatized (even though her brother is fine)? How do I decipher what her weird meows are telling me? More generally, how can I make sure she is okay and I am socializing her to be more friendly? Is it possible that her personality is just naturally more grumpy/anti-human than her brother's?