Kitten Update.
If you read my other blog, you know we have a new kitten.
If not, here she is:
I believe that the home we took her from had not weaned her before giving her away. I believe it’s fair to have expected that, no?
So after 24 hours of not drinking anything, despite my offerings, I decided enough was enough. I dunked her nose into the bowl of water. She licked it off of her face and then I dunked her again. She had a lightbulb moment and dove into the water dish. She came up sputtering but then took to lapping up water for a straight 30 seconds. This morning when I showed her the water dish, she again acted like she had no idea what she was doing. A little dunk to remind her, and she was back to taking a loooong drink again.
I had to do the same thing with food. I have been heating up a couple of tablespoons of water and moisten the cat food, and then she will only eat if I hand-feed her. She purrs the whole time.
She is started to get used to the chaos that is our house and spends most of her days out of hiding and climbing all over the furniture. (My poor furniture!)
It’s been fun to say the least.
Oh, and she is using the litterbox like a pro. She goes at least every other time that I show it to her.
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She might be too young to “get” food-have you tried catmilk?
I gave our too-soon-weaned puppy my breastmilk. Oh yes I did =;?}
Poor girl! She’ll get it soon…be careful with feeding her ‘canned food.’ Once my cat (who was on antibiotics and recovering from some serious head wounds) discovered wet canned cat food it was a hella time to convert him back to dry.
Also, I have posted before (and read lots of your blogs) as ‘helen’ with no link (I’m a teacher; inquired about the cloth grocery bags for produce you bought, etc)..I finally started a blog but am not too serious about it yet…:)
I love her!