Violette and Toulouse

Thanks! Violette is now 9 1/2 weeks old! She is still not having the wet food from the bowl, she will only eat the wet food from the bottle. I let her step in the food and lick it off her feet but all she wants is the bottle!

Toulouse seems to be healing very well from his neuter on 2/25

They also both received their first flea treatments! I chose Bayer défense care for small cats for $18 on amazon($43 at petsmart 😯 ) and it worked within a day or two for a moderate+ flea issue.

Violette finally bit a hole into her last nipple and I decided to feed her with a tiny measuring spoon and slowly lower it into the bowl until she forgets and eats everything! She has now eaten out of the bowl 3 times although it takes about 10 minutes sitting with her and tricking her into eating out of the bowl as she looks all over for the bottle.

I feed violette natural balance kitten formula wet food mixed with water and goats milk. I feed Toulouse Trader Joe’s wet food with water and goats milk (mornings he gets a tablespoon of Greek yogurt as well) and about 2 tablespoons of natural balance kitten formula dry food on top.

Yes! Violette is looking less and less for a nipple to appear somewhere on my body during feeding time and is starting to recognize the bowl.

As Toulouse was about 5.5 months old when his tooth fell, I thought this may be normal as I thought they had until 6-9 months to lose all their baby teeth, but I will check with a vet to be sure!
I have also noticed that Toulouse tends to always have softer stool and once or twice about every two weeks or so, he has diarrhea. He does tend to be sneaky and get into things (sometimes the obvious cause of diarrhea, i.e. He ate 1 ml of left out 2 week old kitten glop that he found in a forgotten bottle that I had hidden from him in a box that he ended up breaking into, also broke into a box of cheez it’s a few days ago in the middle of the night and had a feast which resulted in him lightly splattering poop on the wall his litter box is against and then stepping in his own diarrea at 4:30am the next day 😥 ). I try to keep any food out of the room completely so this happens as little as possible and giving pure pumpkin helped when he ate the drop of rancid milk, but I am wondering if this is just sensitivity or if he may have another cause for usually having softer stool or at times diarrhea. He did have tapeworms and was given dewormer when he was neutered, and they would not give him a broadspectrum dewormer as well in the same day in case he had an allergy or bad reaction to it. He has diarrhea if I give him dry food alone. I was giving him a small amount of Greek yogurt in his wet food about 3 mornings a week but have stopped to see if it may help with this issue.

Toulouse and Violette both had very bad fleas last month despite giving Violette two dawn baths, flea combing them both daily, and trying to keep their environment clean. I was also worried about the fleas possibly carrying tapeworm and reinfecting Toulouse or infecting Violette since Toulouse had tapeworm and they were constantly biting at the fleas, so I decided to use a flea treatment on them. Id say it got rid of about 98% of the fleas within 36 hours, so it turned out to be the best option for them. I also cleaned the entire room as best as I could for fleas/eggs during those days. I find that Violette will have 1-3 fleas still when I check and Toulouse is all black and larger so it is difficult to see/catch fleas on him, but both have stopped sctratching. Since it is springtime and I interact with other peoples pets that go outdoors and possibly have fleas, I will probably give them a flea treatment once more until I am sure that they are fully rid of them before I stop giving them any treatment.
Thanks for your help! 😀