I found a kitten who won't chomp through beside crusty eyes . Aprx 5 wks & hasn't pottied even so. , what can i do?
he was in dumpster. probably because he was sickly. I want to facilitate but cant afford vet.
You can bring him to the freakin VET. Thats what you can do.
Sounds like he might have an upper respiratory infection? I've seen sick kitty with crusty eyes recover nicely on Clavamox or Amoxicillin but you own to get this from a vet.
I hand raised a kitten who be just hours old when he was brought to me. He needed to be bottle feed and would only pee or poop if I stimulated his genitals with a moist cotton globe. He got constipated from the formula I was giving and didn't potty for a couple of days, I was so panicky! I mixed a little canned pumpkin (straight up pumpkin, not pumpkin flavored pie filling) into his formula and after a day or so of that he finally pooped for me. Relief.
If you can't afford a vet, you can't give support to the cat. Take it to a shelter.
Get him some can moist food like Friskees etc and set him close to it so he knows where it is. At five weeks till roughly 12 weeks your cats teeth are not formed for dry food. Although they will eat dry it is not recommended. Limit his space so he doesn't have far to jump to eat and potty. Since you can't afford the vet see if you have eye drops within your pharmacy. Use it on your cat twice a day diluting it in half wet half drop. Clean the surrounding part of his eyes with a melt water cloth. Do not give him milk but water will do. At five weeks he's stronger than you estimate. If you get a chance and money see to get him deworming pills, cat eye drops and a vet but contained by the meantime love is better than a dumpster. If I was close I would help you out and would not charge you a cent for treating him. Good luck.
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What I would do is hand the kitten over to a shelter or humane society. Chances are he's very sick - especially whether he's not going to the bathroom. Mother cats stimulate the kitten with their tongues to help them go to the bathroom. If you cannot afford a vet - don't tolerate the kitten suffer for it - he obviously needs veterinary care. Please lug this kitty to a shelter.
He probably has an eye infection, and needs special medicine for it. And he might hold a loss of appetite due to worms or some type of infection. He just needs some medicine and some food. Try buying some can food, it's softer and most kittens like it. Or try some dried milk--he might like that, too.
My husband and I found our cats at about 4 weeks infirm and they had been abandoned for roughly a week. They had similar problems, so we took them to the vet right away. If you don't want to spend big bucks at a private vet, you can try contacting the Anti-Cruelty League. If you live near a big city they generally have locations that offer seriously discounted rates for strays. You can get the kitten fixed within for only about $25, and for $15 you can add a microchip.
If you're serious in the order of taking care of the kitten, you'll need to bottle feed it kitten formula several times a light of day. If he won't take a bottle, you should try to feed him A&D medical formula. It's really high surrounded by the right fats and vitamins a baby kitten needs.
We be broke when we found our babies, so we found a vet that would gave us our first visit free, and he gave us a ton of "sample" can of the A&D stuff.
Also, I recommend getting PetSmarts pet insurance for the first year. It includes one major surgery (either getting him fixed or declawed) and all of the many shots that he'll inevitability this year. I think it's about $20 a month.
Good luck to you and the baby!
The crusty eyes are usually due to an upper respiratory infection or worms/parasites. He's probably not weaned yet and doesn't know what to do with the food. They generally start to barely wean at around 5 weeks old. You'll have to bottle nurture the kitten KMR (kitten milk replacer) and wipe it's backside with a warm papertowel or washcloth until it urinates and go poo after every feeding. Clean it's eyes off gently next to a warm wet cotton ball and hold on to them clean.
Fostering an abandoned kitten is expensive and time consuming. They require round-the-clock care and own to be fed about every 4 hours. You should consider taking it to a shelter where they can effort for it for you.
if you can you should clutch him to the vet but otherwise..
- feed him, but since he wont eat with crusty eyes try cleaning his eyes beside a damp cloth.
- give him some sort of bath to get hold of him clean
- get him water, to be exact one of the most important thing, you dont want him getting dehydrated (very sorry for the spelling i could not integer out how to spell it.. oops)
Please steal him to the humane society or a shelter and explain the situation...they will take good care of him! :)
how do you know he is "Aprx 5 wks" if you found him contained by a dumpster.Take him and his litter mates to the nearest humane shelter.I know they are cute,but they are going to die if you don't give them absent.
I consider he has an upper respiratory infection. I think you have to transport him to vet.
I hand raised two kittens who were of late couple of days old when I found them on the street.They could not eat or drink on their own. They could not even walk. They needed to be bottle feed and would only pee or poop if I stimulated their genitals with a moist cloth. It be too difficult to raise them they used to get sick one after the other and i used to be with them for 24hrs. Now they are approximately 12 weeks old and it seems they are stable in a minute.
Kitten require lots of care. If you can't help ur kitten n can't afford a vet then I propose take it to a shelter they have their own vet..
call your closest ASPCA or animal rescue, they have rescue shelters with vet services.
Answers: If you dont have the money for a vet, then you can not help this kitten. I am sorry. I propose you take it to a well known, gentle shelter where they can vet him and help him. There are many reason for crusty eyes and lack of appetite. One such is upper respiratory, and Cat Chlamydia. Both of which need long and strong antibotic treatments.Those are 2 on a list a mile long what can be wrong. 5 weeks is too young-looking to be away from the mom and frankly mom may have left him within due to his illness. He was too weak to hold on to up. That or someone in your same situation decided to throw him away fairly than give him a fighting chance. So do the right item. Call the shelters, tell him he's a stray you found then please take the time to drop him rotten for help. If they cant do anything for him at least he will be humanely put to sleep rather than to freeze to departure or starve.
TOO ADD: nothing else you can do will help this cat get better. Just wash him up and force feeding him wont do anything for the disease he may have. A vet is needed.
ADDTION: I do not think you are fruitless for not having money, and I think you a saint for rescuing him, what I wrote is completely for the kitten. To posters thinking its more humane and sweet to save a sick kitten and not achieve it the help it needs, is better than to suffer a fate contained by a shelter. You are wrong. Not all shelters are the horrid places you make them out to be. The cat will have a great arbitrariness of survival there, but without proper care, education, and medicine the chances drastically drop if she keep it.
I propose taking him to the vet asap.. which should have been done when you found him sick.
Poor kitty
