Need advice, found a box on curb w/ 3, 2 week old kittens in it…?
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I was so sad to find a box (near curb after work) w/ 3 appear to be 2 week old kittens in it. According to fellow workers they reported seeing the box there since morning I got out at 6 pm so it had been there all day. The kittens were alert but wobbly and eyes are bluish grey don’t act like they can really see. The box had a laundry soap lid for a bowl it had milk with soaked bread in it. We looked up a home remedy to make some quick formula with egg yolks, karo syrup, plain yogurt, gelatin and evaporated milk… I went to 5 stores in my area on way home and nothing for nursing kittens. I’m very limited financially but I couldn’t just leave them there as everyone else did. These poor lil guys had been in this box with no blanky, no mommy and milk w/ soaked bread which they don’t even know how to eat out of. Their lil belly’s feel bloated and they are not drinking formula well. Just want to do what I can for them til I can find a rescue or get better prepared for them.
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November 30th, -0001 at 12:00 am
Try feeding them through an eye dropper and see if that helps.
November 30th, -0001 at 12:00 am
keep them warm too…they are delicate things…good luck…hoping they make it
November 30th, -0001 at 12:00 am
The best thing to do is open can milk and put a lil sugar in with it and take a make shift nipple and let them soak drink or suck out of it. Usually a rubber glove filled with the milk sugar mix. poke it to make small hole and let them suck from it.
You will have to be a mama cat. Which means you need to be up two to three times during the night as a normal mama would be.
All the best,
OC.
November 30th, -0001 at 12:00 am
You will need some milk replacement formula and a nursing bottle, but since you said you can’t find that an eyedropper would probably do. Here, you can buy the kitten replacement formula at places like petsmart and most of the grocery stores I’ve been to carry it. I think it can also come in the They need to be fed SEVERAL times throughout the day and if you are going to be working a lot you would need to find someone with more time to help you out. If not, the little guys probably won’t make it.
I highly recommend calling local rescue groups and seeing if they have the space for the little kittens or if they can recommend any low cost veternarians for you. A lot of shelters here offer low fee wellness checks which would probably be very good for the kittens.
What you’ve done thus far is great! Those kittens are so lucky you found them.
EDIT: As for the bloated bellies- they could very well have worms.