Experience bottle baby people..New pic's post 27

[smokey the elder]

The Friskies Prime Filets food looks like people food; she might like that. What a little fussbudget! Usually kittens, once they're weaned, eat like horses. I've never had a fussy kitten.

[Randi]

I don't know much about bottle babies. I'm sure at that age they need some kitten food. However, if your vet agrees, try Royal Canin Sensitive. Fister loves it and Killiarn Kitties do too. Another one Fister loves is Royal Canin's Calm, but I don't give him much of that.

Good luck finding what she likes and what is good for her!

[moosmom]

I'm pet sitting for a 9 week old kitten who has to have 500 mg of Lysine 2 times a day. What I do is give her the powder from a capsule mixed in with Whiskas Pouch Chicken or Fish. Just enough to get the medicine in her. Then I give her a full dish of the other stuff. Works like a charm!!

Butchie is a food whore and I am his pimp. He LOVES potato chips, apple turnovers (the filling), just about ANYTHING I'm eating. I refuse to eat standing up so I put him in my bedroom till I'm done. Gotta love that boy!!

Sorry, didn't mean to get off point here. Put down a can of kitten food with KMR over it. Try putting a little bit on a teaspoon, open her jaw with the spoon, and get it so that some of it is on the roof of her mouth. Keep doing it till she gets the idea. It took me 24 hours to wean Molly.

[Freedom]

Laura, thank you for a good laugh this morning!

I have never dealt with a bottle baby, so I can't offer any suggestions.

But when I read this:

She STILL is not interested in eating anything she should eat. . . . she CAN eat but everything "cat" related she will not attempt to even try.. . . . and was screaming for her bottle when I came in here this morning

all I could think was: Little Squirt is training YOU!!!!

She wants to be held and cuddle and nice and warm and hand fed by mommy, hahaaa.

[catmandu]

I would try a bit of Chicken or maybe warm some Chicken Soup or brooth that is salt reduced and see if Caramella will eat that. Or maybe some Roast beef with gravy, of a piece of minced fish!!
Our Cats certainly have us jumping through hoops and loving it.

[Catlady711]

Give her some more time, but keep putting a dish of wet kitten food in her cage though.

Josh was a bit finiky at first. He started to eat from a bowl like his sisters, but then regressed back to wanting the bottle for a time. Took some time but he finally decided that it was better to eat from the bowl rather than waiting for me to fix him a bottle.

[Laura's Babies]

Back to her food training..LOL!

fancy feast grilled chicken for example.

I got some of that and she wouldn't even sniff it, completely ignores it. (I tried giving it to the grown up girls and they wouldn't touch it either!)I even baked a chicken and tried her on some of that. She would lick it but not once did she try to eat it.

OK, I figure it is time to try some "tough love" so last night, I didn't give her the night time bottle and I had a can of adult Friskies cat food and put her a dish of that in the cage with her overnight. When she heard me up here this morning, she didn't start screaming for food and her tummy was plump. When I let her out of the cage, she went right into playing instead of screaming for something to eat. I think I just been keeping her to full from the mush in her bottle, maybe to the point of over feeding her so I am going to back down on how much I am giving her in the bottle and start caging her with food when I know she is hungry.

She is doing everything a big girl does now, except for the eating thing.. Time to get "tough!"