Kitty doesn't poop!

Hi There,

Back in 2007 we got a little rescue kitten, about 21 days old, very late on a Friday night. As it was so late we gave him the only milk we had, which was human whole milk. Then on Saturday morning we took him for a check-up at the vet and got given some kitten (small animal) milk formula as it is better constituted for animals (e.g. some kittens can’t handle lactose in the human milk).

I made a note on his progress. We got Finlay, as we called him, on the Friday 25th May, and at 4am on Monday, the 28th, he did his first poo! As I didn’t write down anything about colour I think it was good and normal. He did another one at 2pm that day. So he poo’d about 3 days after we got him.

On the Wed 30th he had a little solid food (he sounds a bit older than yours).
On the Friday 1st he’d had a lot of diarrhea problems overnight, so the vet put him back onto milk, gave him antibiotics, and 24 hours of electolites. He was still a bouncy little guy. Sunday 3rd he poo’d a small normal poo, then over the next couple of days his poo was a bit yellow and mixed. The vet had me move his worming schedule up in case he’d got a protozoic parasite from his Mom. We re-introduced solid food slowly.

After all that… Finn grew up to be a healthy strong lovely boycat, who thought I was his Mom and loved to suckle my finger or try to suckle my neck!

Unfortunately he’s no longer with us, having not been able to recover from an accident he had. But he was a lovely little strong guy!

I hope that this helps. I would recommend checking with a vet, especially regarding the milk formula.

I wish you all the luck with your guy.

Hi Sammy – check out the tags on the right side of the page. See if the messybeast link is up and working, that’s full of info. You can also look under ‘poop’ or any other relevant tags. I don’t have experience with what you are dealing with.

Hi Jim – check out your earlier post as I responded to it. You will need to know what you’re dealing with before you can treat it. Good luck!

Hi, Sammysh, sounds like you are doing an amazing job with this little one. You should not expect too much poop while he is still on milk, first because he is only on liquids and secondly because he is using most of that to grow on. Are you feeding him whole-milk human baby formula? because if so, you need to feed it at double the strength for a human baby. Better still would be goats’ milk or sheeps’ milk, if you can find either of those where you are. Otherwise I’ve added the ‘glop’ tag, glop is emergency kitten formula, made mostly from evaporated or condensed milk (the heat treatment of the cows milk makes it possible for kittens to digest it more easily). If you want to find another option for feeding him, there are quite a few links and recipes here:

Links for kitten glop

But it sounds like you have it all sussed!