I am going to go pick up Dusty (my 8 week old) today... He didn't need surgery. It turns out the vet that the rescue shelter took him to is top notch. He observed (really observed) Dusty and discovered it was not that he couldn't keep food down it was the kind of food. He seems to be having a problem with dry food at the moment. Right now they have him on some medication along with some chinese herbal remedy thing with wet food being fed to him via a syringe 3 times a day. There was no obstruction and no need to do surgery. This vet got ahold of the shelter and tracked down the other 2 kittens that were from the same litter and they had passed on . He doesn't know what it could have been, bacterial infection, distemper, who knows. He just told me that it looks like Dusty is past the critical point and as long as we can keep feeding him and he puts on some weight then everything should be good to go. I will be leaving in an hour to go get him and I am going to talk to this doctor about my vet. I have only been to my vet a couple of times but he had won my trust. But if he had done surgery, he wouldn't have found anything and then Dusty would have been trying to recoup from the operation as well as whatever the initial problem was. The odds wouldn't have been good. I will keep y'all posted one what happens and I will try and take some pictures and post them tomorrow. I have to admit when I first joined this forum and I was reading the extremes that people went through for their pets I was umm.. amused but now I truly see. Here is an 8 week old kitten that I am willing to do anything for, no matter what. I just hope that everything turns out ok. Send up a prayer for Dusty.