bad news...

Everybody is still alive and 3 are doing very well. I will post a bigger update with weights later today.

My main concern is wee mouse, yesterday he weighed in at 136G....today he weighs in at 127G...I am very worried. Been feeding him every 2 hrs, tried hrly but he doesn't want to eat that often. I am worried that he may be fading on me. Given his small size and lack of growth (keep in mind he is about 2.4-5 weeks old), I wasn't expecting him to live this long, but as they days have gone by I have gotten my hopes up more and more. So if you wouldn't mind, please think, pray or do whatever it is that you believe in, but please send wee mouse man some get healthy vibes, as well as some gain weight vibes. He needs all the help he can get right now.

Update** Mouse has managed to start sucking on hos own, I am taking this not only as a good sign but a hopeful one, maybe the antibiotics are kicking in. I dare not get to excited.

All 4 kittens have just had a bottle and a quick small bath. They are very smelly kittens, but learning to eat solid food is a very messy experience for them as well as me. I have been feeding them off a spoon to try and teach them, but this morning, they seemed to have understood that I am not feeding them poison and it IS good to eat the food. Sabrina is by far the quickest learner in this respect, her only issue????....she thinks she has to be IN the food to eat, so she ends up a smelly mess of food/fur, YUCK. Hope and Jimmy are catching on but would rather hold out for a bottle, which they will get after they eat a little bit of solids from a spoon. The vet had said that she thought Hope had some developmental delays, given her age, size, and skills etc etc...she seems to be right on target with this 2nd litter, so she is probably only a few days older than them. The only real difference i can see is her attitude. She is a very pushy kitty, with an attitude all her own, not sure if this is b/c she was an only for 2 weeks or if this is the way she is because it just is. You have to really watch when you are playing with her or holding her, when she gets her tail swishing that you need to go away, if you don't do it fast enough she will bite...trust me those baby teeth are very sharp. So as long as you know what you are watching for and actually paying attention she is a true love, on her terms only. I hope this will not hinder her getting adopted into a forever home. Somewhere is the perfect home for her.

Sabrina is still very laid back and calm, she is a roly poly little thing and will probably be very happy where she can be a cat and be loved, she isn't a snuggler as much as she just wants to sit near you, not necessarily on you or with you touching her, I think she just wants the reaasurance.

Jimmy, is a snuggler, I spend a lot of time with him rocking him in my chair (yes I rock the kittens lol). He loves to be touched, rubbed, pet any attentin he gets he will soak up.

Mouse is just to wee to know much about his personality, but given his struggles if he survives I am betting he will be the most loveable, friendly and social cat anyone has ever seen or met.

Their weights are not great today. However nobody lost any. They all had a bit of the runs yesterday due to the canned food I'm sure, so I am going to cut back today and see how they do. Instead of 2x a day I will give it just once and see if that makes an improvment.

their weights are:

Jimmy - 371G a small gain

Hope - 346G a small gain

Sabrina - 338G a big gain

Mouse - 127G a loss :(

I posted early today, but if anything new comes up I will edit this.

Final edit for the day: All is well, I found a recipe online for a homemade kitten formula using goats milk, evap milk, chicken baby food, a bit of corn syrup, 2 egg yolks. I wasn't sure what to do, but it is supposed to really pack on some weight and we all know that Mouse needs the weight, so after calling various people in the rescue and not getting a reply from anyone to get their approval for this mixture, I decided that he is so sick already and so small that it wouldn't hurt for me to at least try and see what happens. SO my kiddo and I went to the store bought what we needed came home and mixed it up...used KMR as well so it wasn't a shock to his system and offered him some...he took it easily and readily, but not much only about 3cc's, which is his usual amount. I am hoping that with all this protein added he will make some sort of improvement in a few days. The other kittens like it as well, but I am going to call the vet and get an opinion, if they say this is ok to use mixed with KMR or without than I may find our from the rescue if its acceptable to make this stuff with the KMR. KMR is expensive so if I can mix both of these together, the 1 can of KMR would last 2ce as long if mixed 1/2 and 1/2. The 3 bigger babes must have read my mind when I was cleaning up their last litter box miss, b/c they have finally caught on and only 1 more mess after that..impressive. Not genius kittens, but pretty smart just the same and I highly doubt there are any kittens in this world as smart as my last litter lol, something very special about the first ones..not that the 2nd are not, but the first ones....anyway I am off to bed, mouse will have me up in 2 hrs and i got a busy day tomorrow.