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Waiting for Hello Kitty!
Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: Arizona
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My daughter's boyfriend rescued a kitten when he was less than 2 days old. Mommy kitty wouldn't feed or take care of him. He is now a month old and has been being bottle fed kitty formula and being helped to go "potty" as baby kitties need to be.
So, couple of questions now; ![]() Also, how and when should a litter box be introduced? The whole rubbing his private parts until he goes just isn't a lot of fun. No, really, its not. lol Thanks in advance. |
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Ride Naked.
Join Date: Feb 2008
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IDK, all our cats always lived in the barn on the farm... either they made it or they didn't. But they were more than a month old when they started eating solid cat food, IIRC.
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Join Date: Jan 2009
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Have you tried wet cat food? like the canned stuff? it's a bit more solid than formula but not nearly as hard to eat as dry cat food?
We used to also soak the dry food in the formula so it's soft almost mushy and as they got used to that let it get less mushy each time until it's dry. |
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Waiting for Hello Kitty!
Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: Arizona
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Thanks guys. It's the dry food that has been made mushy he's not into. They haven't tried canned food. Today I actually got him to eat probably 5 or 6 pieces of totally dry food. He liked it a lot but I think was a little frustrated because it isn't super easy to eat. But at least it was more than just his formula in his belly.
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We fostered baby kittens for years (bottle raised most of them) and the best thing I found that kittens can't resist is meat from a rotisserie chicken.
![]() the other best option is wet food with gravy, in the beginning they may just lick the gravy but it's a start. Litterbox: just put the kitten in the box after feeding and scratch with the finger in front of it. With 4 weeks the kitten should be able to do it without "stimulation". Have fun!
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Join Date: Nov 2008
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As soon as they can walk around and get into a litter box, they'll use it if you give them the idea what it's for. We've bottle fed several, some almost from birth when mama just disappeared. At first for the litter box we just used an aluminum pie pan. You just have to be sure to put enough litter in it to make it heavy enough to not tip over when they climb in. At this point they should poop on their own if you quit doing the butt rub
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we've rescued several... most of them just naturally used the litter box once it was introduced. One won't go outside - she only wants the litter box and glares at the other cats when they go outside and can't cover it for some reason
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I think the youngest I adopted a cat was 8 weeks old. He was already on regular kitten food and liter box trained by then.
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Join Date: Nov 2008
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I don't know anything about newborns, but we did rescue some parking lot strays that were about six weeks old (according to the vet)... At that point they were eating dry cat food that somebody was leaving out for them, and when we put them in a habitat with a litter box they figured it out almost immediately (although they also liked to sleep in it). They were between 1.5 and 2.5 pounds at that point- how big is your 1-month-old?
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we had that problem so we bought another litter box and put old blankets in it
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