Sending good vibes that he gets fully healthy and you have a new furever friend, or find him a new furever home if that's what needs to happen.

Yes your point is important but I don't think it belongs in this thread.

There is a time and a place.

They were 5 weeks old and so flea infested they wouldn't eat or sleep. Got them to the vet and they took care of those fleas and put them on antibiotics. Got them home and they ate like little pigs with canned cat food from my fingers. They survived and are now full grown cats. Hope he makes it through.

you are feeding the little fellow. i have no clue if the vet told you what he should be eating but if he didn't i just want you to know that you should not feed milk (cow' milk). if you get a chance, get to a pet store and get kitten formula. we used KMR brand and highly recommend it.

Once upon a time, my 4-year-old calico was lying in the yard as I was mowing the grass. Normally, she ran and hid from the mower. This time, she just lay there. I know something was wrong. She couldn't stand . . . could not use her back legs.

I took her to the vet where x-ray revealed broken hip. Doc said it looked as though someone had kicked her or she had been hit by a car and must have dragged herself into the lawn.

I asked him if she would recover to which he replied: "Well, I've been treating critters for 30 years and I've found, if you can get all the parts of a cat in the same room, they'll make it."

She made it and spent the next 10 years climbing trees and tormenting the local squirrels.

Thanks for sharing that.....

Although slightly older (probably 6 weeks). Grew into a huge healthy Siamese.

To you and your human friend.Little one

Good luck!

We found our little girl on the street in South Philly. She was horribly emaciated, filthy, and had been abused by neighborhood kids. Her paws were bleeding and her whiskers were burnt off on one side. The vet said she was maybe 24 hours away from starving to death.

Well, it's 8 years later and she is lying beside me as I type this, utterly healthy and utterly spoiled.

That's usually a very good sign.

Folk who rescue are wonderful.

The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.
-Mahatma Gandhi

If the baby is only 4 weeks old s/he probably isn't used to eating food. What an adventure!

sounds horrible but is eating like the proverbial horse and does a fine job of beating up on the non-sick ones.

If the amoxicillin doesn't cut it, perhaps something else will.

I've had literally dozens come out of it, and haven't lost any.

The kittehs are hardy little things. We had one with the upper respiratory/goopy eye thing. After shots at the vet we steamed her in the bathroom. Just sat there with the shower on full hot and let the room fill up with steam. She sneezed and sneezed and got a lot of that junk out of there. She's 19 now and still kicking!

Good luck ...post pics soon!

Works for goopy humans too!

4 weeks old is too young to be off Mom's milk, so you're going to have to provide this for him. If he can't lick it out of a saucer, you might have to feed him with a syringe or kitten bottle. Don't use cow's milk, it will upset his baby digestive system.

He's hiding under the covers because he's used to having littermates keep him warm. Yes, it's summer, but kittens lose body heat very quickly. It has nothing to do with being scared, so don't take it personally.

Do check him over for signs of fleas and flea dirt and give him a bath if you find it.

His eyes can be cleaned with a damp cotton ball or damp washcloth. You might also need to rub his lower abdomen after feeding him to stimulate elimination if he's under 4 weeks.

Tale heart, though, I know people who have found kittens with the placenta still attached (obviously from a first time mom who had no idea what that wiggly, squeaking thing that came out of her butt was) and bottle fed them and ended up with sleek and loyal adult cats.

Kitten's spine broke under rocking chair, could not compete to nurse. Now he's a late middle aged tree climber.

Oh, that's good stuff from Warpy, so I followed the post.

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Found mine beside a road, ready to disappear into the woods. Sitting fat and happy and sleeping 20 hrs. a day . You're a good person and you are giving him a good shot on making it become a part of your life.

First, thank you for trying to help this poor kitten.

It sounds, from the ulcers on his tongue, like he has the calici virus. As a shelter volunteer who has had personal experience with calici, please be especially careful if you have other cats. The virus is easily transmitted on clothing and hands. Be sure to keep the little one locked up and away from any other cats. And good luck to you. You are a good person for trying to help. Hydration and feeding may help him shed the virus. Our cat survived it.

Thank you for taking him in and giving him love.

May you both have a long and healthy life - together!

Before making a large emotional investment, ask that the kitten be Felv/FIV tested. As you may know, these diseases are caused by Retro viruses. One of the characteristics of Retro Viruses is that they pass from mother to fetus. In human medicine babies of mothers who are HIV (another Retro Virus....and no, we don't get theirs and they don't get ours) positive will be positive about 30% of the time, assuming that the mother is not being treated.
JG,DVM

He was living at a hotel and the staff was feeding him, he's a huge tom cat that is part Scottish fold. Got him home and found out from vet that he was FIV+. Well being HIV + myself I was not giving up on him. 3 years later he is a fat happy cat that has had no health problems. My other kitties are FIV free

Sometimes that whole "nine lives" myth doesn't seem to be a myth at all.

lived with my other vaccinated non-FeLV cats for years and they never contracted it from her.

"Life finds a way."

Looking forward to the photos tomorrow, joeybee! They often do bounce back, especially with feeding and care and meds - and a safe place to rest and recover. Our three kitties are keeping their paws crossed for him!

My wife and I feed several feral cats that are in the neighborhood. They hang around the front of the house and on the car waiting to be fed. We have named each one with stupid names based on the way they look or their markings. I guess we've become the crazy cat people at our end of the block. They are all fixed. Glad to hear you rescued the little one. Happy thoughts for you and your new friend.

Sending all the mojo I have.

You feed him much potatoes and ply with the vodka. The he will be strong. like bear.

In Russia, adorable ball of fur rescues you!

Thank you for rescuing him. Our first cat was a siamese mix and I loved her with all my heart. She would talk to me on a regular basis and I swear sometimes I knew what she was saying.

She wasn't a cuddler, except with me for some reason (my first pet - we never had them as kids so I had no idea what to do). She'd curl up on my lap all the time -- until I got pregnant with kid #2. Then she wouldn't go near me! I must have smelled different to her.

She's been gone about 6 years now and I still miss her.

and be a lover of life.

Can't wait to see pictures.
From a friend who is a vet tech. Goats milk will put weight on really fast.
Best of luck with this precious little life.

I found out from volunteering at a cat shelter that upper respiratories are the #1 reason for blind cats, if not treated in time. Good luck!

Just remember, as long as he eats and drinks, he can survive this abandonment at a very young age.

My daughter found Mickey abandoned under her porch at 4 or 5 weeks. She bottle fed him kitten milk formula. The Mick is now 9 years old.

I adopted 2 siblings, male and female, from a Shelter. Spice was the runt of the litter who his mother refused to nurse, as she did his brothers and sister (Sugar who I adopted also) were. The Shelter bottle fed Spice. Both Sugar and Spice (Flying Walenda Cat) are now 6 years old and both doing well. You would never know Spice was the runt in comparison to his sister Sugar and would have died without human intervention. He is a huge, sleek boy today.

We need more humans like you, and Animal Rescue People.

was smaller.

The last couple times I fed him I put the syringe in front of him and he reached out and gets it in his mouth and starts sucking on his own. Oh and he just hissed at me! Good thing is he stops as soon as I pick him up so he's
starting to recognize me by smell when he's close.

I bet that tiny hiss was adorable. Post pics when you can.

Best wishes for you and your new friend!

have a very, very special place in my heart. Can't wait for pics!

Cook up some liver...drives their appetite..plus .warm half and
half. Spread it oh his or her mouth. Good luck. Oh..they adore being massaged from head to toe...brushed, too.

I hope he is doing better with your tlc and the meds.

When we rescued Molly it turned out she had a heartworm, very weird in San Diego since mosquito's are rare here. Learned more about heartworm than I really wanted to know, but turns out cats' immune systems actually kill almost all of the larvae when the mosquito injects them, so whereas a dog will have dozens of worms in its heart and be killed by them, a cat will usually have only one or two and be almost unaffected. Problem can occur though when the worm eventually dies, and goes adrift; if it lodges somewhere vital it can cause sudden death.

Molly has not only survived the heart worm, she survived pancreatitis, an event that destroyed one kidney, and now has survived two years after diagnosis of lymphoma in her upper intestine. Kittys are very tough critturs.

So, good vibes for your kitten.

bottles. I have raised a kitten from birth when it's mother abandoned it. Good luck.

and no poop comes out. Rubbing his belly like a Momma cat may help food pass through.

I wish you sweet innocent kitten all the best.