New Kitten, abandoned feral, 2-3 weeks, Help??

Terrified I am going to lose this kitten

Just got back from the vet! My Partner was incredibly understanding when he woke up this morning, and thankfully had flex-hours to be able to go to work late and stay later so kitty could go to the vet.
Kitty’s temp was 101.4, and weighs just under a pound according to their scale! So, down to tacks:

1: Kitty is a girl, not a boy! Thankfully, kitty hasn’t been named yet so it’s not a problem. 🙂

2. Kitty has no parasites! INSANELY good luck for a feral!

3. Kitty had some bacteria, not quite a full infection, which we now have a 2x daily antibiotic for, along with some extra soft food. The blood was due to the bacteria, and not trauma or parasitic interference.

4. The decreased appetite might actually be that we were feeding her TOO OFTEN, somehow, and that she just hates the bottle. So we’ll be trying to free-feed her again, and hopefully this time she won’t just iGNORE THE FOOD IN FRONT OF HER FACE. -.-

All in all, a productive trip, she’s totally stable, got a dewormer and was checked for leukemia and AIDS, which she’s negative for! 😀 We’ve got an appointment for the end of June to get her vaccines done, and she’ll need to be named by then~

😀 I wanted to name her Bellatrix, but my Love says no… so it’s off to BehindTheName for something absolutely fierce as she is! <3

I’m so proud of my little tuxie girl… and beyond grateful to every god there is that she’s going to be ok. {So says the vet~}

Ninth Day: 26
1:20a .2Tbs Goats’ Milk
4:30a Wouldn’t eat at all beyond a few sucks of the bottle.
5:35a .5Tbs KMR with pedialyte
5:50a dabbed a tiny amount of honey on his gums to perk her up.
6:45a .2Tb KMR with Pedialyte
6:57 put {.25Tb milk and 2tps pate} in her nesting box. Kitten won’t touch it.
7:24a .5Tb-.75Tb Baby Mix {1Tb KMR with pedialyte mixed with 2-3tps kitten pate.}
8:00a VET VISIT: No parasites, no trauma. Just a bacterial issue in her butt, causing the bleeding. Received an antibiotic to be administered 2x daily every 12hrs.
10:50a 1Tbs KMR with pedialyte
11:00a FIRST DOSE ANTIBIOTIC
1:30p .25Tbs KMR with pedialyte
3:50p 1Tbs KMR with pedialyte
6:00p .2 Baby Mix
8:45a 1Tbs Baby Mix
10:30p 1Tbs KMR with pedialyte

Total: 6.1Tbs KMR with Pedialyte and Baby Mix
Daily Weight: 14.29
*Today’s Baby Mix: 1:1 warm water to Royal Canin Recovery pate.

She’ll have her antibiotic for the second time at 11p, and hopefully another feeding; and we’ll do our best to gently push her up to 7Tbs of food altogether for the day so she can gain that bit of an ounce back to her weight. She SHOULD be hovering around 8Tbs, but I’ll be content with seven since she’s pretty well hydrated and her tummy is filling back out to it’s healthy milk-bulge state instead of that narrower, scary look last last night/early this morning.

Thanks, Moon! I’m rather fond of it, so it’ll probably stick around as a nickname.

Well, my little kitty didn’t want to eat again before midnight, only licked at the nipple to get the taste out of her mouth poor lamb… But she DID inhale a breakfast of 1Tbs KMR {with Pedialyte, not water}!!!

There’s still some blood in her poops, but that’ll go away as the medication does it’s work. We’ll be looking at names, and I have a “shortlist” of the ones I like best.

Maybe a new thread for polling purposes…? Since you all helped SO MUCH in her all-important first week. 🙂

Just realized I’d given no updates!

Eleventh Day:
3:45a 1.75-2Tbs Goats’ Milk with Water
7:40a 2Tbs Royal Canin Recovery with water 2:3
10:55a 1Tbs Goats’ Milk with Water
11:02a ANTIBIOTIC with a tiny squeeze of milk to help the taste afterward
3:00p 1.5tbs Goat’s Milk with water
4:15p 1Tbs Goats’ Milk with water
7:00p 1Tbs Royal Canin Recovery with water 2:3
7:05p .5Tbs Goats’ Milk with water
10:15p 1.5Tbs Goats’ Milk with water
10:58p ANTIBIOTIC
Total: 10.5

Twelfth Day:
12:15a 1Tbs Royal Canin Recovery with water 2:3
2:45a 1Tbs Goats’ Milk with water
8:20a 2.5Tbs Goats’ Milk with water
10:35a 1.2Tbs Goats’ Milk with water
10:58a ANTIBIOTIC
11:20a .5Tbs Goats’ Milk due to crying screaming kitty
4:35p 1Tbs Goats’ Milk
6:30p 1.5Tbs Goats’ Milk
6:40p .5Tbs Royal Canin Recovery with water 2:3
9:03p 1.75-2Tbs Goats’ Milk with water
11:02p ANTIBIOTIC
11:05p 1.5Tbs Goats’ Milk with water
Total: 12.5Tbs {HOLY CRAP!}
Daily Weight: 16.42oz

Thirteenth Day:
3:00a .75Tbs Goats’ Milk with water
7:00a 1Tbs Goats’ Milk with water
12:00p ANTIBIOTIC
12:05p 1.5Tbs Goats’ Milk with water
2:30p 1.2Tbs Goats’ Milk with water
7:15p .5Tbs Royal Canin with water 2:3
7:20p 1.2Tbs Goats’ Milk with water
9:20p 1.2Tbs Goats’ Milk with water
11:50p 1.3Tbs Goats’ Milk with water
12:00a ANTIBIOTIC
Total: 8.65
Daily Weight: 17.46oz
Unfortunately I overslept my alarm due to exhaustion, and baby had to wait an extra hour for her meds. It doesn’t SEEM to have slowed her down much, if at all, and I’ll be keeping a tight eye on her going forward.

Fourteenth Day:
2:20a 1.75Tbs Goats’ Milk with water
7:00a .75Tbs Goats’ Milk with water
12:00p ANTIBIOTIC
12:10p 2Tbs Royal Canin Recovery with water
3:05p 2Tbs Goats’ Milk with water
7-8:30p .3Tbs attempted feedings
9:05p 1Tbs Goats’ Milk
10:30p .75Tbs Goats’ Milk
12:00a ANTIBIOTIC
Total: 8.5
Daily Weight: 17.57oz

I’ve been a bit worried about Baby due to the drop off in her food, but just realized that she’s only supposed to be eating around 9Tb a day for her body weight. So long as she stays at 8+ there’s not much cause for concern I don’t think. She’s very well hydrated, playful, and beginning to cry when we don’t pay attention to her for longer periods of time. She’s had some fun adventures with some of our friends coming over to help socialize her too! She did VERY VERY well with another male friend of ours, even going so far as to set up shop at his side for around ten minutes of pure cuddling <3

Today is day Fifteen with Baby Bean, and we’re looking forward to her vaccines later this month. My Love’s mother is coming down to visit in a few weeks, and we’re hoping to have a nice, strong baby girl to show her. As the only girl in a house of bachelors, she’s going to be VERY pampered! We’ve just ordered a canvas and mesh playpen for her; with roof!; so she can hang out in the living room out from underfoot while I get back on the sadly neglected house cleaning and laundry.

My rambunctious Couch Kitty, taken a few days back.

Thanks, PG! 🙂

That’s roughly what my Love told me, and we’re doing our best to make it as close to the 12hr mark as possible. At least the Midnight dose allows me a REASON for my night owlish tendences, lol~

We’re thinking either green or *hazel, based on the progressions her sibs have made so far. {Pretty damn sure she’s the inbred result of White TomxMama Kitty -> Princess, who then re-mated x White Tom.} No idea why Princess abandoned the Bean, but allows Mama’s AND Tiffy’s kittens to play around her and nurse, but whatever it is, she’s ours now and the other kitties are still feral. :/
{“hazel” green with a gold ring, or vice versa.} Princess has Heterochromia: One yellow-green eye and one blue-green. She’s been like that since birth, I just wish like HELL she’d let me capture her so I could socialize her and get her to the SPCA…. She’d find a home in NO TIME!

😡

Just saw baby kitty use the literbox… and what should appear in her poos but at least two wiggling little worm segments!!! So either the vet lied about her not having parasites, OR she managed to get them in the almost two weeks she’s been with us post-vet. {12 days ago.}

Thankfully for us, she’s got another visit on the 24th. So we’ll keep an eye on her food intake and be as careful of her as we can until we can get her in. HOPEFULLY they can give her dewormer and get rid of them. NOT looking forward to having to reclean all her bedding….

Yes, and to be fair I was kinda expecting this to happen…? But after the vet said she was clean other than the bacterial issue, I was hoping the dewormer given then would be enough. :/

As soon as she’s old enough for a regular flea and tick repellent, we’ll find a reputable one for her. But with her so young, we just couldn’t risk it. And, being in an area with a rather large deer population, it was bound to happen.

We’ve moved her vet visit up to this monday, and we’ll get her taken care of.

Can cats get worms again after eating the dried and dead segments…?