r/fosterkittens

Backstory:

During the monsoon a young stray mother cat chose space near my home as a safe place to give birth to her six little kittens. Since the day they were born, I've been doing my best to keep them safe, fed, and sheltered despite having very limited space and resources. Their mother has slowly started leaving them for longer periods as they grow, and they're now reaching the age where they need homes of their own.

They have spent their first weeks of life in a cramped, damp corner during the monsoon. Which is now destroyed.I wish I could keep them until everything is perfect, but I simply cannot provide the space, veterinary care, and long-term life they deserve. Abandoning them is not an option, which is why I'm trying to find them loving families instead.

They aren't just stray kittens. They've survived a difficult start to life and deserve the chance to grow up in a safe home where they'll be loved, cared for, and never have to struggle for food or shelter again.

If you've ever thought about adopting a kitten, please consider giving one of these girls a forever home. One adoption can completely change a life.❤️🐾

Reach out to me if you feel like you can adopt.

Quick edit up here for maybe some quick help: someone mentioned below that cats can have Zofran. I might have some of this on hand from my kid. Google and AI and stuff have been insane lately with trying to get dosages, what type of dose would a 697 g 10 week kitten need if this is even a good idea to give her? I won’t even consider it unless I get several experienced people who know about dosing to chime in.

4th of July, Rural, so I’m not getting much traction with getting ahold of people.

I need some advice for my foster kitten, I’m moderately experienced, but it’s been a couple of years and I’m feeling slightly defeated. Here’s her info:

Cookie
Got her June 21, weighed 750g
Got to 765, rn after a big puke and a poop she’s only 697.
First shot June 29
Fenbenzadole June 21-28
Psyllium fiber and fortiflora added to her wet food.
About 10 weeks old.

She came with a super raw, moderately prolapsed bum, which would bleed after she pooped which was watery diarrhea.

After I completed what’s listed above, she was doing great, seemed almost a normal weight, her poop looked normal. And then I took her to get her first vaccine.

After the first shot she started getting disinterested in food. The next night, on the 30th we had shake and bake chicken legs. She had some of the inner non breaded meat, I thought it would be good and stimulate her appetite but it seems like it was bad now. She may have licked a slight amount of the shake and bake seasoning but I purposefully tried to not let her.

She seemed to stop eating completely by herself around Thursday. The first day, I coaxed her to eat a bit off my fingers. Since then I’ve been trying to syringe feed her but it’s only half successful. She pukes half the time and she’s losing weight.

I’ve been doing 25ish (little water mixed in) ml of either hills a/d (this seems to make her puke more often) or Purina wet kitten food. I did this 3 times yesterday with 1 puke and 2 times today so far with 1 puke.

Should I try less? What else can I do to help her? I asked my rescue, org that I am fostering her through if anyone has any anti-nausea medicine as that has worked in the past for this issue for me, but my post has yet to be approved so far, people are busy today.

he's about 2-3 weeks old but he's really small, I've been feeding him every 2 hours or so and it's going well except his eyes hasn't opened yet and he has teeth, one of his eyes look swollen and they were both red i keep cleaning them with cotton and warm water but he only opens one after cleaning, the vet prescribed me an eye drop antibiotic+cortisone twice daily, it's been 3 days but there isn't much improvement, any advice on what i should do to save his eyes? (photos were taking before starting eye drops)

there has been this Queen who has been coming around for the past two weeks, she is friendly towards us, does not like to be held and seems to not mind our other cats. I would say she is very near her expected time. I have attempted to trap her without success and I would care for her however I am not able to have another cat, let alone her kittens due to lease agreement. I have callers rescues and unfortunately are at capacity.

Medical Lake, Wa

any help would be appreciate!

Hello! I recently acquired a super friendly stray who was very pregnant. Unfortunately she didn’t make it to her spay/abort and had 5 kittens 9 days ago. Which means I will have these cats much longer than I planned. I have 3 other rescue cats and I don’t want to keep the room I have them in occupied by all the kittens and mom if I can help it. Can anyone give me guidance on introducing mama cat and her kittens to the rest of the household? All my other cats are female spayed. I have mom + 2 daughters. 2 younger ones are about 9-10 months old, their mama is probably around 2-3 years old. Stray mama cat is probably only 1-2 years old.

latest fosters and looking for some name ideas! we’re thinking of doing an “ugly duckling” theme and naming them after swans since they were in pretty rough shape when we got them and they’re growing into such pretty kittens. the first three are girls and the last one is a boy. i’m set on naming the white one odette but unsure of names for the rest.

UPDATE: after lots of consideration their names are going to be leda, odette, odile, and cygnus

I've had these girls going on four days now and they have been adapting well. I'm just so proud of them and I wanted to share it here. Moxie already has a lovely family interested in adopting!!! Good luck Queens!!!!

Hey guys, im taking care of this kitten since he was 1 week old, i figured out most of things by using reddit, ChatGPT and things like that. But one thing i find impossible is to teach him how to use the litter box. I bought him the fine litter at first and instead of peeing in there he decided to eat it, so i switched to pellets and he is still refusing to pee/poo there. Im Trying to move him there when i see him sniffing stuff and getting ready to pee but he always ends up getting out and rush to pee somewhere else, i even tried to put him in there while he was already in peeing position, in worked few times and some times he stops peeing and went to another location to pee instead. Did someone had same problem?