How To Force Feed A Newborn Kitten

A kitten in good health will sleep between breastfeeding sessions and will wake up when their mother encourages them to so when they start to scream and actively seeks the teat.

How to force feed a newborn kitten. It will cause diarrhea. If she concurs this is the best course of action take a bit of canned cat food from a 3 ounce can and shape it into a ball the size of a small marble. The most frequent complications from malnutrition are diarrhea dehydration.

Your vet should also be able to tell you how to mix the latter and provide the necessary bottles or tell you where you can get some. You should feed the kitten for 5 10 minutes every 2 hours and never go longer than 4 hours in between feedings. When meals are not enough cats wake more frequently and moan.

For a particularly small kitten you may want to use a syringe or dropper to feed it instead. A newborn kitten can only digest milk and more specifically the milk from a female cat. Hold her mouth closed to give her time to swallow.

If a kitten is overheated or too cold it is not safe to feed until you have gently stabilized their temperature. To feed a baby kitten without a mother feed it a kitten milk replacement formula using a sterilized feeding bottle. If a kitten is not able to swallow it is not safe to feed.

Before you force feed your cat seek your veterinarian s counsel. Feeding the wrong sort of milk such as cow s milk can have short term and long term effects including diarrhea dehydration nutritional deficiencies and long term health problems due to poor growth. If a kitten has a cleft palate it may be riskier to feed.

They progressively become inactive and do not gain enough weight. Before you feed a kitten always make sure you ve assessed her to make sure it is safe to feed. You can contact your vet for a commercial formula or make one at home.