i have a 3 day old kitten who doesnt drink much, How do i make her drink milk or water. What can i feed her ?

Question

The kitten is very small, hasnt opened its eyes yet. How do i keep it alive, it doesnt have a mother

An dthe kitten sleeps a lot, is playfull, but when it sleeps it sleeps a lot. I have placed it in a mim bed i made for it with soft fabric and a teddy in it. Is the kittys sleepin for long hours normal ?

Answer 1

In addition to what Lilly said use an eyedropper, they havent quite got the hang of drinking yet

Answer 2

You need to feed her with a dropper/a small turkey baser... if she won't drink you do need to use the dropper to make sure it goes down her throat. They sell kitten milk formula in the pet sections of most groceries store or a local pet store will have it, you can also order online, they require the mothers milk at this stage and that's the next best think with lots of vitamins and energy. Keep it up you will be well rewarded it's a thrill to keep a life a live and than thrive.

Check out these sites for more kittem care they may help you too.

Answer 3

Hope your little kitten is still doing ok. You need to immediately go to the feed store (if your town has one) or your vet. At the feed store you can get a tiny bottle and infant cat formula, same as at the vet but cheaper. You can also feed the kitten canned goat milk, thinned with a little water. DO NOT attempt to feed it cow's milk, it will die. Be very careful when feeding it, don't squeeze the milk into its mouth, let it suck on the bottle. If it gets too much milk, it can aspirate milk into its lungs and die of pneumonia. You also need to rub its genitals with a wet cloth to make it urinate and deficate. You can keep the kitten on a hot pad turned on low, wrapped up in a towel. You will have to feed it around the clock, at least every four hours. I have done this before. I kept the infant animals (squirrels) in the palm of my hand 24/7 with a towel wrapped around my hand. Worked fine. I wish you the best of luck. If your kitty survives, it will be so very close to you for the rest of its life. You are a very good person to attempt to care for this orphan, and I really hope it all works out good for both of you. If kitty does not survive, at least you did all you could for it.

Answer 4

What the kitten needs is babycat formula. Several companies has that the two best are royal canin and KMR. I recommend royal canin it comes with a bottle three bags of formula and a small bag of dry baby cat food for later on.

Now to how to take care of him

Food:
Two-tea spoon of powder and four-tea spoon of warm water. Feed every four hours.
There will probably be extra milk in the bottle, when he will finish to eat just put it in the fridge and use it next time warm it for 20 seconds in the microwave and let it cool for about a minute.
Make sure to massage his belly after each meal it will help him digest his food batter.

In another week and half start mixing with his milk some canned A/D of science diet do that for a week and each feeding increase the amount of A/D and decrease the amount of milk here you can start feeding him every six hours.
Get from you vet a 10CC syringe you will need, as the food will get thicker with each feeding.

After one week stop with the milk and mix the A/D with some royal canin baby cat dry food, you can stop with the syringe and give it to him on a flat plate or a flat box top each day decrease the amount of wet food and increase the dry food within a week or two he should eat dry food alone. Make sure that he will have dry food in a small bowl all the time now, as he will get used to eating only that. Buy him royal canin babycat 34 it’s the best kitten food for kittens at his age.

Warming him:
Take a big towel and fold it a few times in the top fold put a water warm bottle. Change the water with each feeding, in about month you can stop with the water bottle.

Excretions:
Wet some cotton in lukewarm water and squze it to get most of the water leave it moist. Gently before each meal rub the kitten rear. Make sure to do that above some toilet paper or he’ll do his things on you.
In about two weeks prepare him small low box with some cat sand to do his things in it. They just learn alone, Instincts.
If he hasn’t done his needs in over two days take him to the vet.

Answer 5

I had a kitten that small and the mother to it brought it to my bedroom door one night to alert us that she had no milk to give it. Get an eyedropper or pet bottle, go to the pet store and get the kittens milk to feed it, make sure you keep it in something small, almost like make a bed for it, and most importantly, you will need to take a wet q-tip or cotton ball and wipe its butt so it can poop, at least once a day. the mother usually does that but you need to make sure its done or the cat will back up, and could even die, it will pee on its own, but in order to poop you have to help it, NO LIE, SERIOUSLY!!!!!!!!!!!

Answer 6

Feed it with an eye dropper... get the kitten formula at Petco or Petsmart. Make sure the kitten gets food a few times a day or it's not going to live past kittenhood!

Answer 7

They sell milk for infant kittens, Just Born or KMR really good brands and you can feed it with an eyedropper.
Also, you can mix some a/d wet food with some infant milk formula to make a slurry and feed it that with the eyedropper...
Good luck

Answer 8

Use the pediatric drops that usually goes with the infant medication bottle as at that age, kittens are still ripe from drinking on their own. You have to feed them yourself round the clock. Good luck kitty-sitting!

Answer 9

you need to feed this kitten every two hours or so and keep it warm otherwise it will die.
i don't know what happened to its mum but you need to prepare yourself that it may die, because if it was abandoned by it's mother, its probably because there's something wrong with it.

you must go and buy some suplemented powdered milk, a syringe or a special milk bottle, somthing small it can suck on.

Answer 10

Here's a link to a Yahoo! Answers question about the same thing:

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AlpaxDUsueDIojmYzcLcvUTsy6IX?qid=20060712110844AA48Bto

and some helpful links about kitten care:
http://www.kittencare.com/askKC_Feeding_Kittens.html#emergency_formula
http://www.kittenrescue.org/handbook.htm