MereB
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We're expecting a new kitten to join our little family at the end of the month, a black boy my Hubby has named Odo.
He's had a rough start to life
He was supplement fed from a little over a week old because mum didn't have enough milk. At about 4 weeks (start of September) his mum was almost dead in her bed one morning and the vet found some retained afterbirth so that was dealt with and she bounced back but couldn't feed kittens at all afterwards because of the drugs and infection in her system that claimed 1 of her 4 kittens a day later.
We though all was good after that and went to meet our boy back on September 12th when he was 5 weeks.
Breeder was feeding them 4 hourly for a few weeks until they started eating solids on their own.
12 days ago mum crashed again. The vet worked on her for an hour but unfortunately she passed away :cry:
An autopsy was done and he found that her uterus had perforated and she had the remains of an under developed fetus just outside the uterus. It was decayed to the point that it had basically poisoned her whole body and was in a position that the ultra sound just could not have picked it up lying behind her liver. Immediately the vet feared for the three remaining babies having lived in such an environment. He put them on antibiotics as a precaution and sent them home. The next day we lost the little girl. We think she just missed her mum. The breeder immediately took the two boys back to the vet and he has them in ICU on a drip, intra nasal feeding tubes and 24 hour monitoring. So far so good and our breeder is there with them for comfort up to 10 hours a day.
Obviously being at the vet all day and having a house to run, job to do and hubby away it's been difficult for regular communication and we haven't heard anything for the last few days which is probably a good thing really and I'm choosing to believe that means all is going well. Hubby is going to text her in the morning and see how she's doing with the kittens.
If you could spare a though and prayer that Odo and his last remaining brother come through this healthy I'd really appreciate it.
Odo is the 2nd kitten hubby has fallen for from this breeder and after the first one turned out to have been born with a fatal liver defect I couldn't stand for him to have to go through losing a 2nd one :cry:
Thank you,
Mere.
He's had a rough start to life
He was supplement fed from a little over a week old because mum didn't have enough milk. At about 4 weeks (start of September) his mum was almost dead in her bed one morning and the vet found some retained afterbirth so that was dealt with and she bounced back but couldn't feed kittens at all afterwards because of the drugs and infection in her system that claimed 1 of her 4 kittens a day later.
We though all was good after that and went to meet our boy back on September 12th when he was 5 weeks.
Breeder was feeding them 4 hourly for a few weeks until they started eating solids on their own.
12 days ago mum crashed again. The vet worked on her for an hour but unfortunately she passed away :cry:
An autopsy was done and he found that her uterus had perforated and she had the remains of an under developed fetus just outside the uterus. It was decayed to the point that it had basically poisoned her whole body and was in a position that the ultra sound just could not have picked it up lying behind her liver. Immediately the vet feared for the three remaining babies having lived in such an environment. He put them on antibiotics as a precaution and sent them home. The next day we lost the little girl. We think she just missed her mum. The breeder immediately took the two boys back to the vet and he has them in ICU on a drip, intra nasal feeding tubes and 24 hour monitoring. So far so good and our breeder is there with them for comfort up to 10 hours a day.
Obviously being at the vet all day and having a house to run, job to do and hubby away it's been difficult for regular communication and we haven't heard anything for the last few days which is probably a good thing really and I'm choosing to believe that means all is going well. Hubby is going to text her in the morning and see how she's doing with the kittens.
If you could spare a though and prayer that Odo and his last remaining brother come through this healthy I'd really appreciate it.
Odo is the 2nd kitten hubby has fallen for from this breeder and after the first one turned out to have been born with a fatal liver defect I couldn't stand for him to have to go through losing a 2nd one :cry:
Thank you,
Mere.