Siamese Kitten Update (Unfortunately without Photos)

[joeybee12]

My connection is bad and having trouble uploading...

Anyway, he's doing well...it sounds weird but his coloring is better. He has good energy and is getting used to me. He eats a lot but not on his own. Still syringe feeding, mixing canned with replacement milk, and sometimes just some liquid gravy from fancy feast gravy lovers canned food. He really enjoys the later. I put the syringe in front of him and he leans forward on his own and starts sucking on it...he eats quite a bit (I'm feeding him every 2-3 hours or so) and when he's full he stops and looks up at me. I brought my 5-year-old Ashley who is the king of the cats here in there and put the food in front of him with the little guy right next to him to watch Ashley eat, but he didn't get the hint.

The bad news is he has ticks. I noticed them last night and pulled them all off, and today he has more. Pulled them but every time I think I'm done I see another. So, it's off to the vet's to get his ears examined...the tech said she's seen kittens in his situation with the ticks inside the ears and they come out that way. They do seem to be concentrated on his head and around the ears. So, that needs to be taken care of...I'm sure he'll love the ride again.

[Runningdawg]

1. I am really glad to hear he is doing better.

[joeybee12]

4. Thanks!

[GoCubsGo]

2. Fancy Feast Gravy Lover's is kitty crack.

I have yet to meet a cat that doesn't love it. He might still be too young to eat on his own, or maybe he prefers pate-style food. Most of the gravy lovers I know lick off the gravy and leave most or all of the solid stuff, but will devour a can of the pate version in seconds. Or, maybe he might find the FF "Broths" to his liking.

Happy to hear he's doing well.

[joeybee12]

3. He gets regular pate when I mush it with the replacement milk

First Melanie, then Scarlet and then India all had chronic renal failure in their later years and this was all they would eat so so some of the kittens were raised on it also because it's impossible to separate food from cats...they won't have it!

[nolabear]

5. DOn't forget to stroke downward on his belly with a wet cloth after he eats.

Moms lick their little ones to help stimulate digestion and elimination, so while he's still being syringe fed it'll help him a lot.

Damned ticks. You're his hero.

[joeybee12]

7. I am doing that...thanks...

He's a messy eater so he gets cleaned with it after he eats as well.

[nolabear]

9. LOL! I hand raised a kitten years ago that we had for 19 years. One of my very favorite cats.

[Daemonaquila]

6. Thank you for being a good human for him.

I'm glad he's better. Yeah, the tick thing probably means he's really anemic, but the vet can help with that. Don't worry too much about him not eating on his own at that age. He'll get it. He just needs to feel better and have a little time.

[joeybee12]

10. Thanks...he eats really well...

And even though he has tiny teeth he can really chomp down...I should know, my fingers got a little too close to where he was sucking the syringe and he tried to get some of the stuff off my fingers...yikes!

[auntpurl]

8. So glad he's doing better! Keep us posted!

[joeybee12]

13. Will do...thanks.

[packman]

11. It seems like he's training you rather well

a few more months and you'll be ready.

[joeybee12]

12. Hah!

Yeah, I think he knows whose boss already.

[B2G]

14. Aw...we just rescued a 4 month old

who was found on a construction site. He's the sweetest little tuxedo boy imaginable...except for when he's being a jackhole.

[joeybee12]

17. I love tuxedo cats...

Just love the look of them.

[B2G]

18. He's a beautiful boy

But he had chemical burns on his pads, fleas, roundworms and giardia when we got him.

He's all fixed up right as rain now...and absolutely stunning! Looking forward to the neutering in October. Lol.

[tclambert]

15. A cat thread without photos? What is wrong with you?

[joeybee12]

16. I know...I took photos last night...

But the computer can't upload. BTW, the little guy is a lynx point siamese. I already have one, who is probably his half-brother because Mom refuses to go into the traps, and until I got a siamese I didn't realize how many different kinds there were.

[3catwoman3]

28. Lynx points are so beautiful.

We have a little peanut of a lynx point girl - just under 6 pounds at 12 years old. Like having a forever kitten. She still likes to chase her tail.

She's so dainty that her big blue eyes take up most of her teeny tiny face.

[joeybee12]

29. Starting to see this guy's beautiful blue eyes...

They were goopy from the URI but that is clearing up...gorgeous.

[3catwoman3]

30. There is something particularly captivating about blue-eyed cats.

The only way I can describe it is that it feels almost as if the is a fellow human in there staring out at you.

[tclambert]

31. So it looks more like this?

[bench scientist]

19. yay! love and hugs to ya both!

hope the lil one continues to do well.

[joeybee12]

22. Thanks

[japple]

20. Awwwww. Bless you joeybee for taking in yet another little orphan. Those

ticks (and fleas will do it too) might have given him anemia, but it sounds like you're doing all the right things for his little highness! He's going to start following you around crying "ma-ma, ma-ma!"

[joeybee12]

21. I still have Hattie to do that

She's now only 3 months and followa me everywhere. She's interested in who is in the bathroom but she had URI also so she needs to stay away from him for a bit for both their sake.

[jpak]

23. WE NEED PICS!!!!111

[joeybee12]

24. I know!

Soon, I promise.

[hamsterjill]

25. Yay, Joeybee12!!!

You rock!! You are awesome!

My sincerest thanks to you for what you're doing, have done, and will do in the future.

[joeybee12]

26. Thank you

[Warpy]

32. If he howls, that's progress

and you know he'll be healthier afterward.

He might be younger than 4 weeks if he's not interested in food in a saucer, so you're doing a good thing with the KMR and food mixed in a syringe. Since he's an eager little piggie, it means he's decided to live, after all.

I'm noticing a lot more Siamese and Siamese mixes among feral kittens out there. I imagine a lot of really dumb people are getting them because they're "purdy" but when a female Siamese, already vocal, goes into heat because they didn't cough up the money to get her spayed, she becomes nearly impossible to tolerate and out she goes.

I wish people would get fully informed about the breed before they get them. They're not for everyone. However, they're wonderful cats, especially for people who just talk back to them, because they're incredibly loyal.

[joeybee12]

33. Yeah, his lungs are working

And now he purrs when I pick him up. The good news is during the night he started eating on his own. Still using the syringe but I can cut back and start weaning him.

[COLGATE4]

34. Pics, please!