Mamma cat sick! Will this effect Kittens?

Question

I have a cat with 10 day old kittens. She has diarreah and threw up last night. Should I supplement feed the kittens until she is better or will that make them ill as well?

Answer 1

Allow her to nurse the kittens if possible. But diarrhea does dehydrate. Get some pediatric electrolyte in the baby food section of the store. Besides re hydrating her it has the essential electrolytes to balance out her system. Try to remove the food until her digestive system settles down (12 hours if possible) She will continue to produce milk for the kittens because of the Pedialyte (brand name) and her own body fat.

If diarrhea persists a trip to the vet will be necessary.

Answer 2

This is about the time, after delivering a litter of kittens, that mother cats get sick if they still have a retained placenta or a dead kitten inside them or have otherwise developed a uterine infection.

I recommend that you take the mother cat to the vet today to be checked over. If she's okay you'll only have spent the cost of a vet visit. If she has an infection, however, she could become very ill in the next day or so and then you'd be facing rushing her to an emergency vet, maybe emergency surgery, a very sick cat, and your having to hand-raise her babies.

And yes, if the mother cat is sick it will affect the kittens. They can get sick from what she has, or she may be unable to produce milk for them. You definitely want to do anything you can to keep the mother healthy.

Answer 3

This is one of the scarey things about not neutering. I'm not blaming you, I know sometimes cats have their own ideas.

But as a mother whose kittens need her, her illness could have devastating effects. I would be packing them all in a box, mother and kittens and taking them to a vet ASAP.

Its already a tricky situation and since you are unsure of what to do or what the cause of her illness is you may be called upon to regularly bottle feed kittens...provided they survive.

Answer 4

Oh dear...

You might want to be ready to step in and feed the kittens. Meanwhile, you'll want to find out what's wrong with Momma.

Good luck!

Answer 5

She might have abandoned her kittens, or some thing might have handed off to her. I trust each and every physique who says you will possibly desire to keep her in if she comes back. you have gotten some great suggestion. yet one element- do no longer feed them cow's milk, it relatively is too diverse from human milk for them to have the skill to digest good, and that i might think of human infant formulation may be a similar. inspite of the shown fact which you opt for for to make keep them heat, use a small blanket or a delicate towel to lead them to a nest to snuggle jointly in, for heat temperature and convenience. We use a pair of million/2 to 3-quarters of a cup of milk with an entire egg jumbled in as milk replacer. in case you won't be in a position to get milk replacer good now or in any respect, we've constantly had sturdy luck with it. in spite of you feed, make beneficial it relatively is warmed. Use your range, no longer the microwave. Microwaves bypass away warm spots" in milk or formulation, which will reason burns. warmth it just to the factor the place iy would not experience greater effective than particularly heat once you touch some on your wrist. we've used a three to 5 cc syringe (no needle) to feed tiny kittens, yet you will possibly desire to be *very* careful to no longer provide them too plenty at a time. If it runs out of the corners of their mouths or they cough, or sneeze, you have given them too plenty. and that they actually do might desire to be fed in many circumstances, each and every 2 hours for a minimum of the 1st 2 weeks. you're in for a stressful street in case you will possibly desire to try this, and you will possibly desire to attain that in spite of in case you do each and every thing purely good, they might die besides. A kitten bottle is the terrific, in case you will get one. they do no longer exist the place we are residing, or we would use them. and finally, if or while your mama comes back, please,please, please get her spayed. i'm getting so bored with announcing this. do no longer human beings understand how many undesirable cats and kittens there are in this usa? Do human beings no longer understand maximum of them have not got sturdy lives, and quite a pair of times go through undesirable deaths? I desire you sturdy luck and various fortitude if the mummy doesn;t come back (desire she does!)

Answer 6

Did you find out what is wrong with her? It depends on what is wrong with her wether or not babies will get sick.

Ever seen pyrametria? It will just kill her but not necessarily make the babies sick.

Answer 7

it might it depend's what's wrong with her. you better get her to the vet's. good luck.

Answer 8

Only if it's Chlamydia!