24H Veterinary Bangkok / Kitten Milk

[kawaiimomo]

I just found an orphaned cat between my house and the next one. I guess she is around 1 month old and is not eating wet food I bought. Is there any 24 h vet where I can have her checked and buy milk for kittens and a feeding bottle?

I am living in Din daeng

[SimonD]

About 3-4 weeks is old enough to start being weaned anyway. Buy some kitten milk from a pet store (do NOT give her cows milk) and put it in a shallow dish at room temperature. Kittens learn to eat by watching and copying their mother so you're 'mum' now. She shouldn't need to be bottle fed, just rub some milk around her mouth and she'll lick it off.

Once she has started lapping the formula milk you're away. Add a small amount of wet food to it and mash it up well - no large lumps she might choke on. A thin porridge or gruel consistency is fine. Gradually increase the wet food until she's eating normally.

Good luck and well done for giving a waif a home.

Edited November 29, 2012 by SimonD

[WilliaminBKK]

About 3-4 weeks is old enough to start being weaned anyway. Buy some kitten milk from a pet store (do NOT give her cows milk) and put it in a shallow dish at room temperature. Kittens learn to eat by watching and copying their mother so you're 'mum' now. She shouldn't need to be bottle fed, just rub some milk around her mouth and she'll lick it off.

Once she has started lapping the formula milk you're away. Add a small amount of wet food to it and mash it up well - no large lumps she might choke on. A thin porridge or gruel consistency is fine. Gradually increase the wet food until she's eating normally.

Good luck and well done for giving a waif a home.

Great post.

OP if you can't get kittens milk tonight, you can boil chicken and rice and let the broth cool in a shallow dish and follow SimonD's advice.

Cows milk - cats are lactose intolerant and will get the runs

Tuna juice never ever - it can cause polioencephlomalacia

Good luck

[heatherm]

I suggest KMR brand (kitten milk replacer). It's packaging is white with powder blue letters and greyish kitten picture on the front. It comes in powder and liquid cans. The cans are easier to use because you don't do any mixing, but one can is way more than one kitten can drink before it goes bad. The big tub of powder milk is around 1000 baht. If the pet store doesn't have KMR they will try to sell you canned goat's milk. Goat milk is ok, but KMR has the complete vitamins and minerals a kitten needs. They are still doing a lot of developing so need the correct food. Some kittens don't learn to lap up food as early as others. The problem is if the dish is too deep. They misjudge the distance and get a noseful of milk/water. If they do that a few times they will stop trying to drink from a bowl. The solution is to only put a tiny bit of liquid in the dish so they are actually licking the dish to get the milk/water. Kittens know how to lick, but lapping is a skill. If you can't find a bottle, wet a wash cloth or handkerchief and the kitten will suck on that.

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[kawaiimomo]

Thanks for the great replies, guys. I have raised several cats with powder milk and feeding bottle before, the problem is I found this small one very late and all the shops were already closed. I started calling 24h vets and all of them kept telling me the shop was closed (so they could check the kitten but not sell any milk). Finally I found Metta clinic in Lad Phrao 106 and went there.

The cat is just dehydrated probably because she has spent all the day without drinking or eating. Got some goat milk and wet food in syringes which should do for tonight. Hopefully she will feel stronger soon and start eating on her own.

Once more, thanks for the support and the helpful advice ;-)

Edit: BTW I just moved 2 weeks ago to a house because I wanted to have cats same as back home. This girlie came in the right time

Edited November 29, 2012 by kawaiimomo

[SimonD]

^ Glad everything has worked out so well for the two of you! She's a lucky kitty...

A photo of the little monster would be nice if you have the time.

[kawaiimomo]

This is just after I found her. Now doesn't look so scared and is more lively after eating

[WilliaminBKK]

This is just after I found her. Now doesn't look so scared and is more lively after eating

Cute kitty, I'm also glad everything worked out. I really admire people like you.

[tinfoilhat]

This is just after I found her. Now doesn't look so scared and is more lively after eating

Mark Twain:

In his "Pudd'nhead Wilson," Wilson says:

"A home without a cat--and a well-fed, well-petted and properly revered cat--may be a perfect home, perhaps, but how can it prove title?"

Jean Cocteau

"I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul."

Edited November 30, 2012 by tinfoilhat