Queen Mum's Dancing in the Rain

[Queen Mum]

Here in my lap sits one very sick little kitty. Not Jacket, but another little cat that is sick. His eyes are all pussy and he is bone thin. He's dying for sure. He was being eaten alive by flies and sitting so quietly in the sun. I just couldn't watch him suffering any longer. So I gave him a bath and a shot of Pen G. Some medicine for his eyes and some fluids. He's on my lap right now, wrapped in a towel. In between naps, he looks silently up and me as if to see if I am really still here. I give him a few drops of goats milk to keep fluids going in. I rub his ears and chin which he likes and he goes back to sleep. I don't think he is going to make it, but there isn't much else I can do but make him comfortable until he passes from this world. I've sprayed him to keep the flies at bay and the fleas away. I'll bundle him up and put him in a quiet place for the night. If he's alive in the morning the worst will be past. If not, he will have not passed in as much misery as he would have had I just walked on by.

 

[SmallFarmGirl]

Hang on little kitty! I once found a kitten on the edge of my front garden while I was weeding. I took it in and fed it milk and put some fly stuff on her.
She was thin and tiny and black. I pretty much was positive she wasn't going to make it. I even started to get a box prepared for her to be put in.
I hated to be like that, but she was dying. I placed her in a crate with a little milk bowl while I went to get something. I came back, uh 5 minutes later to here meowing!
Lot's of little meows along with a sandy little tongue lapping up some milk! I got her back to normal and then she went to a new home. (Can't have cats, I have 2 dogs who hate them..)

If she can do it you can! Hang on!

 

[redtailgal]

OH Queen. I hope this new kitty doesnt have distemper. Please Please wash your hands well after handling it, and keep it away from Jacket.

It may not have distemper, so dont freak or anything, but a young thin cat with goop in the eyes ESP this time of year......Be careful. I'd love for this kitty to be ok, but I'd really hate for you to lose Jacket.

If he is still alive in the morning, mix a little egg yolk into his milk (its great for energy for puny small mammals) and if he can eat solids, soak some whole wheat bread in milk to get those bowels activated. Yogurt to counteract the gut problems from the pen g...........If you think there is a fever, wipe his paws and ears with cool wet cloths



Bout the only thing I have found that is more pitiful that a poor sick kitty is a poor sick goat kid.

 

[elevan]

I'd be tempted to give Sub-Q fluids if it's still alive in the am as well.

 

[Queen Mum]

He is not with Jacket. He's in another location. But this morning he is doing great. H was eating and following me everywhere. I am very careful to maintain clean habits when caring for sick animals. He got more eye medicine this morning and more Pen G. Also he is back with his litter, it seems. Feral kitten...

On another front... the home front, Mama had a huge gash in the back of her udder this morning. I couldn't get ahold of the vet so I had to deal with it myself. There was noone to help me stitch it up so I had to use steri-strips.

She was really good while I cleaned it up and steri-stripped it closed. (It took a LONG time to clean up.) Thank goodness I had some lidocaine gel. It's about 5 inches long and one full layer deep. It was caked with mud. I had to really deep clean it to get all the junk out and had to use a tooth brush to scrub it with betadine. Then I shaved it and sprayed with blue kote followed by tincture of benzoine to make the steri-strips stick. Then a clean bandage.

I'm going to have to bottle feed her kids for the next couple weeks. One of them seems really sick right now and I haven't a clue why. He is just standing still, stock still. I have no idea why. No vomiting, no diarrhea. Just not moving.

 

[elevan]

Do you know how she got the gash?

 

[ThreeBoysChicks]

Sorry to hear about Momma. Keep us posted.

 

[Squirrelgirl88]

I rescued two kitties just two weeks ago. Little infected eyes and orphaned. Nursed them for four days on goat's milk til I could find a "professional" foster to wean them. Nice to know there is someone else out there that can't resist rescuing them either.

 

[Queen Mum]

The kittens are doing GREAT! Alive and well and on the mend!

Mama is doing pretty well. She is pretty sore and yegads! in heat. But, her kids are in the weaning pen and on bottles. That is going really well. The bucks need their own pen. Oh for the need of more fencing...

Jacket has grown a TON, I swear, overnight...

 

[Queen Mum]

I took off the dressing today and Mama is healing up really well. She looks fabulous.

The kitten is looking GREAT today. Still looks like a mini-skeleton kitten, but he is clearly on the mend. He comes out to greet me now when he sees me. I have bathed 7 more kittens and treated them all with antibiotics, wormer and eye cream. They are doing well. There is one more that I have to catch.

I'm taking care of AP's animals while she is in CA visiting family. What a job. Bunnies, dogs, cats, chickens, goats. Vegetable garden. Lots of new baby bunnies. One of them got out of the cage through a hole in the side of the cage. The tenant found him on the ground. We got him back with his mommy just in time it seems. He's doing well today. She has a ton of babies in there. She is doing well with them.

There is another pregnant bunny in another cage that looks like a giant bunny shaped log.

The chickens miss their mommy. The hens aren't laying many eggs.

The goats were totally out of hay and the browse is non-existant. BUT I scored some free bales of nice hay and shared them with AP. The goats are mad because I and the neighbor aren't cutting down trees for them anymore. Now they have to eat boring old hay... Ingrates!