2 week old not pooping after stimulation!!! Help?!

Hi, Charles, bless you for looking after that kitten. I will add a link for your friend, she should get her cat spayed if at all possible because a cat who has killed her kittens once may do it again.

First of all, DON’T USE HARTZ! You may be lucky and have no problems with it but you may be very unlucky — some people on here have had very bad experiences with it. Use Kitten Replacement Milk or goats milk (in Walmart and similar supermarkets in cans in the baking aisle, or fresh in the chiller section, or we can give you kitten ‘glop’ recipes) or a similar high-quality milk formula from a vet or good pet store — but not Hartz, please.

This is a great set of videos on bringing up abandoned kittens but it sounds like you’re doing fine on your own…

Also try this thread and the pink tag ‘orphans’ if you’re searching for more info. We will help if we can.

Links for kitten-raising sites, eg Messybeast

Don’t worry too much about no poop yet. The kitten won’t produce much if she’s just on milk and she may have had an empty tum when you got her. Every other day or so is fine. If it starts to get towards three days, you can try diluting her formula a little more and here is our ‘bible’ on constipation.

Chaos’ Guide to Constipation

Hi Charles! Congratulations on your new kitten and good on your for being a rescuer!! We are here to help you any way we can, so take a deep breath and know that we are here for you. The sites above that JCat gave are awesome for hand rearing kittens. I have used Hartz once, before I knew better with no problems. That being said, I wouldn’t recommend it because of the death rate in kittens after using it. If you can go to a pet store or a TSC (farm and country store) that has KMR or even better (and cheaper) is the goat’s milk. Which I raisied my last kitten almost entirely on and he’s 1 year old this week!! Make sure you keep your kitten warm, keep doing what you are doing and stop back and let us know your progress. We love pics too!!