help it is for life or death!!!?

Question

we have a lot of outside cats and one of them had four kittens, we cant find the mother and the babies were born last night what can i do so they dont die cause i really dont want them to die because they are so cute!!HELP!!!!!!

and we live and dont have enough money to take them to the vet

i meant we live in the country

and im just 12 years old

1 died today

they all died today

they all died today

Answer 1

You can try and feed them yourself! It happened to my family a while back, and we kept them in a box with a blanket and fed them with a little bottle. I think they have baby bottles for kittens and formula at pet stores. But it is hard work! They need to be fed about every 2 hours! And you'll have to clean up all their messes too!

Answer 2

OK, I've heard this myth twice now in just the answers to this question... Mama cats will not abandon their kittens if they smell a human on the kittens, of if you play with the kittens too much. It's a hokey myth, and it isn't true.

You'll be able to find kitten nursing bottles and kitten formula at pet stores. If you're worried about them being hungry before mama gets back, go ahead and bottle feed them. If mama doesn't come back, keep feeding them, and buy a book about raising cats, so you can learn how to wean them from the bottle and get them to start eating real kitten food at around 8-12 weeks.

Answer 3

You need to go to a pet store and get small bottles and kitten milk. They need to be fed alot. Then you need to take a warn cotten ball and wipe there bottom. I found 3 newborn kittens in our bushes with umbilical cord and sacks. 1 was gone already, 1 died 2 days later, and I still have the 3rd one (she's over a year now). Put them in a basket with a heating pad on low and then place a towel over the pad. Cover the basket with a towel also and make sure to place them in a room where it is quiet. Call you vet and they should be able to help you more. Good Luck!!!!

Answer 4

Mom might not come around if you're hanging around. She doesn't want to get caught, so she'll let the kittens die rather than come around you if she's not someone's pet. If the kittens are healthy and safe, leave them overnight, maybe place a piece of paper over the "nest" mom made for them. If the paper is moved, mom probably came back overnight. Otherwise, you need to take them to the vet and take some time off work. Kittens that young require some intensive time to survive. They have to be stimulated to urinate and defecate, mom does this by grooming them, you'll have to do it gently with a wet cloth. If you do bottle feed, make them stretch their necks out for proper digestion, don't feed them like you would a human child. Your vet can give you all the details on how to care for newborns.

Answer 5

Motherless Pets ---

More often than not, it is a case of newly born kittens and puppies arriving without their mothers.

"We get boxes of kittens left at the front door," she said.

Kiel, of Waukesha, was working as a volunteer at the shelter three years ago when she realized that she could help the shelter handle the flow of kittens during spring and summer by opening up her home.

Kiel and her husband had cats of their own under their roof over the years, but she never had to contend with a litter of newborns.

"When they come into the shelter with their mother, I take them home, put them together in a room and I know the mother usually will be really good at taking care of them," Kiel said.

When they come in without a mother, Kiel assumes that role, including the feeding.

"We provide them with the formula and the bottles they will need," Gustavsson said.

"It's not all that complicated," Kiel said. "I was shown once how to do it, and that was really all I needed."

Young kittens must be fed every couple of hours, kept warm and cleaned regularly.

During the weeks she has the kittens, Kiel also introduces them to litter boxes and socializes them.

"We see a lot of feral cats here," Gustavsson said. "Getting cats and kittens used to people is really important."

As Kiel put it: "I take home the ones that are hissing and spitting. They're not daunting to me. They might think they are but they aren't. I can't even remember the first hisser I took home."

Kiel's kittens have "run the gamut from super-healthy to some so sick that they died."

Of the four she returned most recently, one was at her home for 10 weeks before becoming healthy and socialized enough to be ready for adoption.

"I had to bring her in here every day for two weeks to have her hydrated," she said. "The first time she ate on her own we almost cried."

Answer 6

Well if you cant afford a vet start saving, you will need one eventually, because you should get them ALL shots and get the momma fixed-shes obviously not ready for motherhood. But as far as the kittens- keep them someplace warm (not hot) WARM and go to a pet store and get replacement milk until the mother comes back (hopefully she will eventually). And call a local shelter- sometimes they can tell you where to find a cheap or free vet clinic and sometimes you can take them in there and they will properly care for them if you cannot.

Answer 7

Call your local tractor supply store and ask whether they have small mammal formula and pipettes. You'll need to just call a vet and ask how frequently you need to feed them, and at what intervals as they grow. The vet should tell you anything else you may need to know.

In the meanwhile, keep them very warm. Side by side in an open plastic storage container, their body heat should do a lot of the trick for you; also place that pet carrier on a heating pad on low. You can nurse them supplementally with similac baby formula and a large dropper.

Answer 8

Mother cats are very good at hiding and also hiding their babies. You should leave the kittens alone for now as long as it is not extremely cold outside, she will most likely be back for them, she is probably scouting for a new place to hide them while they are so young and helpless. If she does not return by nightfall, then you can think about taking care of them. If you touch them or move them, she most likely will abandon them, and then they will not survive. If you take responcibility for the kittens you will need to care for them around the clock as they will need to be fed every couple of hours. There are baby animal feeding bottles and formula you can purchase at the pet store if you need to do so. Do not pick them up and handle them or she will abandon them. It is difficult to walk away, I know, I adore animals also; but you do not want to do more harm than good.

Answer 9

find a box and get towels and put the kittens in there to keep them warm don't put them under any fans or air conditioner vents. Go to the store and buy a kitten milk replacer like kmr and a kitten bottle and follow the directions on kitten milk replacer formula remember to have the milk replacer warm not to warm you will have to feed them every 3-4 hours all through the night. cut a hole in the nipple on the bottle to make it a little bigger if you can see that there not getting any. and after you feed them get a wash cloth with warm water and rub it over were they pee and poop you will have to do this to get them to go to the bathroom and teach them to go to the litter box usually at about 2 -2 1/2 months old you can start doing that . if you can't get to the store to buy this you must take them to the vet to help. when they get older about 2-3 months you can ween them off of the kitten milk replacer and go onto weening formula to put in there food.

Answer 10

unless the mother cat has met an accident and died herself, she would come back for her kittens. But sometimes, when mothe animals sense that something is wrong with their babies, they leave them to die - unfortunate, but it is the way of nature. It's very difficult to raise kittens that young without their mother - they get all kinds of anti-bodies from their mom's milk... am sooo sorry dear - but be prepared to see your kitties die one by one. You can try feeding watered milk to them with a cotton bud. Good luck!