Posted dateMarch 03, 2010 Comment
  • I have 3 young 3 week old kittens and 1 is small and thin. she gets bullied by others to feed and when uits her turn the mother gets up and goes. I am able to keep mum there when i am home to ensure little one gets feed but is there any milk that you can buy to feed a nursing kitten to fill her up.


  • I bred Abyssinian cats for over 20 years and during that time had to hand rear several kits from birth. It is not an easy process and the greatest danger is getting milk in the lungs. A proprietory brand of pet milk replacement formula is best together with a suitably small bottle and teat and weight watcher scales to monitor the kit's weight
    Try to avoid syringes because you risk getting milk in the lungs. If you go that route you need to entubate the kit and you need expert advice to undertake that safely. However, by 3 weeks the kit should be able to suck on a teat once it gets used to it.
    Equally, if your kit has survived 3 weeks then it is probably getting enough for it to survive until it is weaned.
    The sign to look for is incessant crying. If the kit is perpetually hungry it will cry until it falls asleep exhausted to wake and cry some more. If it cries with disappointment when mum gets up and leaves but then snuggles down to sleep with its litter mates, then it is doing ok.

    If you do decide you need to supplement, remember that mum stimulates her kits execretion by massaging their tums with her tongue. You should get a cotton wool ball and gently massage it's tum towards it's genitals until the kit excretes a drop of urine. Young kits need to be fed every 2 hours. (Which is why it is a huge undertaking and why animal aid organisations rarely attempt to save newborn kits unless they have a surrogate mother cat.)
    Hand reared kits usually grow up to be overly confident because they have not received any feline administered discipline -- they will try to rule the household they grew up in and it is kinder to give them to a loving home because they will "mind" their new family and become better adjusted.


  • Yes, there is a cat "formula" that you should be able to find at pet supply store or your local vet. The kitty formula is branded as KMR Milk Replacer. It is not expensive and easy to mix. The first feedings may take a little effort, but once the kitten get use to it, it's not that bad.


  • There is actually some nursing milk that you can buy at the grocery store in the pet food isle, its by wiskas and you warm it up slightly and then you give it to him with a syringe, they love it and it has great nutirtional value


  • Yes there is. I had to take in a baby kitten about a month ago. she was 2 weeks old. I took her to the vet. They make a powdered milk that you mix with water and give you a tiny baby bottle. It costs about 15 dollars but it will last until your kitty is weaned. Just make sure you follow the directions. It might take some coaxing to get it to eat but it will get the hang of it. it's good that momma is still feeding t some though. I'm sure she has some antibodies that the kitten needs. what ever you do don't give it cows milk. Many cats are allergic to it. They will get diarrhea and dehydrate. You shouldn't have to pay for a visit. they have the powder at the counter.
    good luck


  • this would be known as the runt of the litture i'm pretty sure, the only solution i can thing of for the next week or 2(untill they are ready for soft food) is buy some of the type of milk you use for motherless kittens at walmart and use a nursing syringe *do not force feed it she may not be as malnurished as u think*

    heres what a nursing syringe looks like
    http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/co...







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