Somewhat kitten stressed

[chickenfeet]

The kittens are at the point where we really need to get them off syringe feeding and into feeding themselves. In fact, I can't recall ever having to syringe feed kittens this big. Monster is pretty good. He will lap a paste of KMR and a/d from a bowl but the other two just really aren't interested. This is time consuming and stressful and as I have been responsible for three out of four feeds today I feel pretty much kittened out. It doesn't help that they really haven't figured out the litterbox yet so my office, which houses the kitten kondo. also provides a degree of olefactory stimulation that I could live without.

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[marnameow.livejournal.com]

How old are they? Ros did that for ages (after she was ill at five weeks) and nearly drove me *mad* with the feeding, and then started herself straight onto her mother's Iams. She bypassed all the stages between suckle and crunch. Daft kitten.

[chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com]

How old are they?

Not totally sure. 4-6 weeks?

[marnameow.livejournal.com]

Four weeks is probably tiny enough that they get confused. But you have all the sympathy - last summer's fun and games were quite enough for me, and that was just two or three weeks of feeding two felines. The smell does not wash off.

[glitterboy1.livejournal.com]

Sympathy. I hope that both the feeding and litter box will sort themselves out quickly.

[frumiousb.livejournal.com]

Do your bigger cats help with the litter training? In Philadelphia we had a kitten who could not negotiate the litter pan at first (too young) and every time he started to go the big cat picked him up and dumped him into the pan.

[chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com]

We try and limit contact between the kittens and the older cats at least until the kittens have had their first lot of shots.

[frumiousb.livejournal.com]

of course, stupid of me.