Hope has been on her antibiotics for about 48hrs now. She did well yesterday up until about 5pm, than she started failing again. She was doing so well, she looked like a different kitten, her eyes were not staring into space, she was focusing, she just looked different, even her face. She looked so different that I was afraid that I had mixed up her and Jimmy, they look very similar but she is much lighter. Only way I knew for certain that I had medicated the right kitten was to check and be sure that the one with boy bits wasn't the one in my lap sucking the syringe.
But last night about 5 pm, the diarrhea started again and her eyes lost focus and she once again refused to eat. I started wondering now if perhaps she was allergic to the formula. She was ok (small and weak but ok) when I got her, and fine into Thursday but overnight she started to fail...She ate very little Friday but ate well yesterday...I started wondering if maybe the formula was the issue. She refused anything after about 6pm....so I let her be. 6am I got up because she was hollering for food, (her pitiful cry had suddenly gotten loud and obnoxious, overnight)...she is again eating so now I wonder if this will be a evening/night thing, after having formula all day long and doing well you gotta wonder if the break overnight is what is making her feel better first part of the day. We will see what today brings but cross anything you have that can be crossed without twisting you in a knot.
The other 2 babies are doing well, their bellies are quite a bit smaller than they were, and they seem to be doing well. We have named them Sabrina and Jimmy...so now we have Sabrina, Hope and Jimmy, can you guess the tv show these guys were named after? Jimmy is a VERY loud wee boy, I can hear him outside the house, he is quite obnoxious about it all and after listening to it for a full 5 min straight I find myself wishing I had invested in some quality ear plugs lol. He doesn't cry to eat, or to get love, not even because he is cold, he cries simply b.c he can and he knows how to. If he hears me or if I am walking past their pen, he starts, if the lights are on in the evening, he cries, he cries over pretty much everything. I suspect he has a bit of colic and I am working on helping him to get over that, cow's milk is meant for calves NOT kittens. While I understand this woman was trying to help them stay alive, cows milk really does more harm than good. I also understand that the woman who did have them was 80 years old and let's face it, what they did 80 years ago was give them cows milk or let them die. Can't fault the woman, she kept them alive and did the best that she could do, many other people wouldn't have even bothered.
It's a brief update and I'm sorry, but the last 3 days have been chaos, with a sick Hope and my life etc I just was to tired last night to post.
Their weights are good for Sabrina and Jimmy. Hope again lost weight.
Hope - is 221G this morning, was 226G yesterday and 208G when she came to me on Wednesday night, so if you look at it that was she HAS gained weight, not much but something. The loss since yesterday has me concerned. I may have to look at getting something called "instant ounces", I think once she is a bit bigger she will get stronger which will help her get well.
Sabrina - was 202G yesterday and 216G this morning, she did very well.
Jimmy - Was 223G yesterday and 235G this morning, he also did very well.
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