Newborn kittens, as well as small children, need maternal milk. But, sometimes, the cat mother throws the children or she has no milk. In such situation it is necessary to resort to artificial feeding. To bring up a newborn kitten from a small bottle – difficult business, the number of feedings depends on a physical condition of a small animal.
It is required to you
- The pipette, children's small bottle and pacifier, the thermometer for liquid, cotton wool, a hot-water bottle or a plastic bottle, woolen fabric, children's dairy mix or milk, patience.
Instruction
1. As substitute of cat's milk for newborn kitten the mixes for babies a lot of presented on counters of supermarkets or, the diluted with water, cow's milk can serve. The first days when the norm of food is very small and kittens are absolutely helpless, it is possible to use the ordinary pipette for feeding, in the subsequent having replaced it with a children's small bottle with a pacifier. In order to avoid an infection each subject needs to be washed up and boiled accurately. Temperature of food has to be close to the body temperature of an animal - 38 degrees. Check temperature, having dripped to themselves on a hand several drops of milk. Having accurately taken a kitten for a neck, it is necessary to enter a pacifier into a mouth, trying not to frighten the kid. Slightly pressing a small bottle, you watch that liquid did not come out too strongly. Approximate volumes of food which should be given to a kitten depending on age: Up to 7 days - to 3-6 g there are each two hours; 7-14 days - to 6-8 g are each two hours in the afternoon, each four hours at night; 14-21 days - to 8-10 g are each two hours in the afternoon, once at night.
2. Between feedings of a kitten keep in the warm place, it is desirable with a hot-water bottle or a plastic bottle with the warm water which is wrapped up in woolen fabric. Suitable temperature – 25-30 degrees. On the sixth week it is lowered to 20 degrees. To remove digestion products, it is necessary to do to a kitten light massage of area of an anus by a soft rag or cotton wool. The dung has to be yellow color and soft. If it firm or very liquid, so is picked incorrectly up structure of milk or its temperature, and it is necessary to take care of replacement urgently.
3. From three - four-week age the kitten can enter a feeding up. Four weeks. Milk with vegetables, the vegetable puree, fish and meat mashes mixed with milk. To pour in superficial ware 4 times a day in any dose. Five weeks. The meat which is small scrolled in the meat grinder, boiled fish – 1 time for three dairy lunches. To pour in a saucer, it is not enough. Six - eight weeks. To increase a dose of the scrolled food. Milk and water in any dose, gradually to replace milk food firm. Eight weeks and more. Two or three lunches with firm food in day and a saucer of milk which can be replaced with fresh water, since six months. If everything is normal, the kitten has to grow fat 10-15 grams a day, approximately on 100 grams a week. But also the smaller increase in weight is not dangerous provided that your pet is vigorous, playful and cheerful.