please:(( i need great help for my baby

[mariposa_traicionera]

Hi. my name is mustafa. i am frm turkey. my problem is that i have a baby who is nearly 3 months old. after we left our home for 3 weeks, when i came back, i saw her very thin, very skinny. i gave her milks, and foods. now, for 4 days, she is very ill. she sleeps for 3 hours on same place. she is outdoor cat. we breed them in our garden.
i try to give her milk, food but she doesnt accept. she doesnt eat nor drink. even doesnt drink her mother's milk.
i am very sad and cant do anything. there is no doctor here. time is 23:55 here in turkey. if i cant take any precaution, i am sure that i will see her dead tomorrow morning.
dear administrators, please donu lock this topic because i was just searching help and came across your site through google.
PLEASE HELP ME

[Lizzie]

Your kitten needs urgent professional care. By no doctor here, do you mean that there is no vet in your area? How far away is a vet? Is your family willing to take the cat to a vet?

The only thing you can do at this point is give her fluids to keep her going. Do you have a small syringe? Do you have a small baby's bottle with a new teat? If you do, or can get one, the hole in the teat will have to be very tiny. If you don't have a syringe or a bottle, you can use a small spoon. Boil some water and let it cool before you feed it to her. Put the fluids in the kitten's mouth at the corner and very slowly because you can choke her easily. Just let them trickle in and watch her swallow before you trickle in some more.

Is there anywhere where you can get replacement mother cat milk? If not, goat's milk or sheep's milk is better for her than cow's milk which may give her diarrhoea.

Since your kitten is an outside cat, it is likely that she has some parasites in her intestines. You will need a vet to help you there since giving her medicine you might buy in a pharmacy could be too strong for her because she is so small and weak.

Good luck and let us know what happens to your baby.

[mariposa_traicionera]

LIZZIE, thank you very much for your advices. Yes.. i mean, there is no vet here. my family is abroad. they are 500 km. abroad from our house. they're on holiday. I have syringe, ı will give her some pastorised milk, and then i ll try to give boiled water. Just before i have read your answer, i gave her boiled egg and she just smelt it and she acted as if she was eating but she didnt have a power to eat. while her siblings were eating, she just look at them. she is very very thin. when i hold her, i can easily feel her bones, skeleton. by the way, i'm sorry for my poor english. i ll later let you know the ressult. Thank you very much. Take care...

[mariposa_traicionera]

by the way, may i give her medicine? such as aspirine or vitamin c? Does it cause any problem?
and my other problem is that. I have an adult cat but he is always bittten by other enemy outdoor cats. he has wounds around his neck. deep wounds indeed. can i treat him by using tincture of iodine?

[caseysmom]

When my cat was ill the only thing she would eat was tuna fish.

Was momma cat able to eat? Is she okay? Maybe her milk dried up and the baby is starving, once starving you are going to have to force feed small portions.

[caseysmom]

I wouldn't give aspirine or vitamin c but the topical antibiotic should help.

[mariposa_traicionera]

Thank you caseysmom for your helps. her mother is OK for now. she is fat and healty. But i believe that she doesnt have milk for her babies. Since it is not possible to give her care, or feed her with cat foods, I am unable to do anything for her. I have got some hamburger meats in refregirator. I sometimes give it to them but i dont know is it helpful for mom to have milk or not.
Thanks...

[Lizzie]

Your English is very good and I can understand you easily.

Focus on fluids first, foods second, even though she is very thin. When cats are dehydrated, they won't want to eat, so fluids are the number one priority. While egg is high in protein, she's not really ready for something so heavy right now. Can you get some jars of baby food? Or some chicken soup? Thin the baby food with boiled water until you can draw it up into a syringe and try then very, very slowly in the corner of her mouth. Expect a lot of it to come out of her mouth but she will get some of it. If you have to use chicken soup, you will need to put it through a blender or mash it through a sieve first.

Edited to add - Do Not Give Aspirin to the kitten. It won't help and it will harm her. Vitamins C won't help either. If you want to boost the protein and fats she is getting, use baby food.

Is there anywhere where you can get specialized food for your cat? If there is, they will also have vitamin supplements specially made for cats.

[moosmom]

Lizzie is right, your cat needs medical attention immediately!! You shouldn't give a cat cow's milk as they are lactose intolerant. Please get your cat the medical attention it needs.