URGENT Emergency my nugget has constipation !!!

Simsim I don’t have the answer for you but I know others here will…My thoughts are with Nugget!!

You need to give him a bottel of straight water. it doesnt have to be much, just about half the amount of formula you give him. do that atleast once daily and that should help if he is constipated because of dry hard poop.

How many days has it been sence he last pooped? The kitten i am taking care of was “constipated” for 5 days, every time i called a vet or shelter they told me to give her more time “if shes eating shes file, call me back in two days”

and they were rite, when she finaly decided to poop it was totaly normal and she had no issues at all. Its important to keep in mind that kittens do not produce much poop compaired to the amount they eat, im not telling you not to talk to a vet or not to be concirned. Make sure you are keeping her warm espechaly after she eats. Make sure that she is getting enough water, and also have you been trying to stimulate her before and after every feeding?

I don’t know about kitten constipation but when my Brutus gets constipated, I give him a little bit of olive oil and it helps him go. Hope little nugget is ok.

Oh, I think we do, we have been known to do many happy dances for poop! Yay, poop! Yay, Nugget!

A drop or two of olive oil in food is also good for cats who are trying to get rid of furballs. Let’s hope little Nugget doesn’t have that problem for a while…

Hey i just wanted to say one quick thing about putting vegitable/olive oil or karo syrop or any other type of stuff into a kittens formula.

I contacted atleast 4 vets and many vet techs and people who work at shelters when my little kitten was constipated, and most of them had no idea weather that would be a good idea or not. But two vets and one vet tech (that raised 29 kittens last year) told me it was an EXTREAMLY bad idea. They told me that olive oil was to acidic (i think or somthing like that) vegitable oil could very easily give them bad diahrea if they are alittle too young and there digestive/immune systems arnt very good, or if they didnt get the first two days of mothers milk. I was also strongly advised not to use karo syrup as it most likely will mess her blood sugar up badly and that could have ill effects.

The best thing that you can do is give them water, or try the magical lubricated thermomitor trick (talk to a vet before you try that)

From my experiance, and talking to people with alot more experiance then me, i have found that kittens usualy are not constipated if they havent pooped in two or three days, espechaly if you are just starting to give him artifishal formula. Kittens should have a poop around once a day, but it is compleatly normal and very common for kittens to skip a day or so.

It is very easy to get paniced and start trying all kinds of things that may actualy hurt the kitten, when in reality there is nothing wrong at all. If a kitten stops eating or if there belly is very hard (witch is usualy because of worms but can be from constipation) or if it becomes lethargic, its gums are pail, or if it is continualy crying for no other reason, then it is time to be concerned. Please keep in mind that its allways a good idea to get more then one vets opinion.

I am so glad that nugget pooped, beleve me i know how you felt. It sounds like you are doing a great job, keep it up and i cant wait to hear how nugget is doing in the next fue days, keep us posted!

I LOVE nugget!! What a cutiepie. Thanks for sharing!