Hi all I’m new here but I wanted to see if anyone had any of these issues with their kittens.
I have an almost 1yr old calico that for her first and hopefully only litter had 7 babies. The first day everything seemed fine, then on day 2 I noticed that 6 of the babies would go to eat and one would just stay away. I tried multiple times to get her to latch to her momma but she won’t even open her mouth to try. At that point I decided that it was gonna be bottle fed right away. Mommy does clean her help her go to the bathroom and will cuddle her when the others are eating which I believe is great. They are 4 weeks old now and starting to wean, as the other 6 will take food very well from a plate and they get wet kitten food mixed with formula she is not even interested unless it is on my finger then she will only eat a little nothing like her brothers and sisters. I thought maybe she is just a little behind and I want to make sure she is still getting everything she needs and I still feed her formula with a syringe but she will not latch to the nipple on that either. She is much smaller then her siblings weighing only 280g and brothers and sisters are pushing up to the 500g mark now. My husband also noticed that she likes to just lay around more and I thought it could be just because she is smaller but her back leg never fully extends. Birth was very easy for my calico and she did not have any complications with each being delivered rarely quickly with my supervision on all of them. I am with them quit a bit throughout the day to make sure she is okay and play but the not eating is very concerning. Please if anyone has had this happen I would love to have some help so I quit worrying about her.
I have an almost 1yr old calico that for her first and hopefully only litter had 7 babies. The first day everything seemed fine, then on day 2 I noticed that 6 of the babies would go to eat and one would just stay away. I tried multiple times to get her to latch to her momma but she won’t even open her mouth to try. At that point I decided that it was gonna be bottle fed right away. Mommy does clean her help her go to the bathroom and will cuddle her when the others are eating which I believe is great. They are 4 weeks old now and starting to wean, as the other 6 will take food very well from a plate and they get wet kitten food mixed with formula she is not even interested unless it is on my finger then she will only eat a little nothing like her brothers and sisters. I thought maybe she is just a little behind and I want to make sure she is still getting everything she needs and I still feed her formula with a syringe but she will not latch to the nipple on that either. She is much smaller then her siblings weighing only 280g and brothers and sisters are pushing up to the 500g mark now. My husband also noticed that she likes to just lay around more and I thought it could be just because she is smaller but her back leg never fully extends. Birth was very easy for my calico and she did not have any complications with each being delivered rarely quickly with my supervision on all of them. I am with them quit a bit throughout the day to make sure she is okay and play but the not eating is very concerning. Please if anyone has had this happen I would love to have some help so I quit worrying about her.
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