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

[Laura's Babies]

Caramella again. She has the potty thing down to a art and uses it like she has been doing it all her life. She STILL is not interested in eating anything she should eat. Now put down a green bean or a potato chip and she is right on it eating.. NO! I am NOT feeding her those things, I did the green bean because she acted interested and I wanted to see if she would eat it and she did! Today Rie was here and was eating pototo chips and Caramella went right to it and proceeded to take a bite. LOL! That PROVES to me she CAN eat but everything "cat" related she will not attempt to even try.. I have tried canned kitten food, Science diet kitten food soaked in water then milk and she will take it pureed in milk, in her bottle, and I have tried baby food turkey and she will not eat it unless in a bottle, mixed with milk!

She has got to be at least 5 weeks old (?) and she has had teeth for about 2 weeks. I tried putting her in her cage last night without a bottle and a plate of kitten canned food and left her to go to bed. She had not touched the food on the saucer and was sceaming for her bottle when I came in here this morning. I tried to get her to eat from the plate and no luck! I even tried her with the big girls canned food... NOT!

Is she just to young or have I just not hit on something she likes.

I have more time with her, I will not be going back to work with my crew this crew change on the 22nd..... see my thread in other, general...

[columbine]

Maybe if you went the other direction, and gave her a piece of roast chicken or fish? She seems to go for something she can sink her teeth into. Just a random guess, though - I've never taken care of a bottle baby.

Love, Columbine

[Taz_Zoee]

I agree with Columbine. I was gonna say give her dry food. Just try one piece and see what happens. If you think it's too tough for her put water in it but don't let it get all soggy.

[dehlers43]

My little ones just loved Royal Canin Baby Kibble...looks sort of like Grape Nuts...

[Laura's Babies]

I tired it dry and she totally ignored it, tried it soaked in both water and milk first, she wouldn't even sniff those. Only made into puree with milk will she take in but it HAS to be in a bottle! I hope this don't mean she is going to be extremely finicky!

[kittycats_delight]

Laura, why not try the food that is most like human food. In other words try things like fancy feast grilled chicken for example. It is like real pieces of chicken in a sauce. If that doesn't cut it try some tuna in oil and see what she thinks of that. She may very well be a finicky little one and you may have to go through a ton of different flavors and textures before she finds something she likes.

Oh another thing to give a go with it liver. Frost is my most picky eater. Nothing for him but Royal Canin Fit 32 and Royal Canin Sensible 33 mixed together. He will literally starve himself if he doesn't have those exact foods. And he will only eat kibble. But, if I have liver he cries for it. It's the ONLY other thing he will ever eat besides HIS kibble.

Keep trying girl some of the little ones can be really fussy. The answer is to try, try and try again. Different flavors, different textures, different brands and same goes for the kibble different flavors, different brands and different size kibble. Keep us posted.

[Laura's Babies]

Thanks.. I was planning to go out today to find something! Just didn't know where to start. I will try some of each of that. My older girls won't touch anything in gravy or not mushed all up.. they don't like the chopped stuff in grave, maybe that is what she will eat.

[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!"

[lvpets2002]

Guess what Laura = I am getting renewed on bottle baby feeding.. I went to the County Humane Society Meeting this past Tues Night & after the meeting we was called on to pickup a 4 day old kitten that the mother had not been seen in two days.. So I have & am bottle feeding this baby now too.. Its a black wittle girl.. She is 10 days old today & just got her eyes open.. Her eyes look Blue.. I will take pics soon.. I tell you what the lack of sleep at night for feeding is about to get to me.. But she is worth it..