another addition to the house

My mother called me yesterday and told me my stepdads brother found a litter of kittens by his house. apperently the neighboor scared the mother off and the kittens were left alone.
My stepdads brother then took the kittens and asked my mom where he should take them. He didnt want to take them to the humane socitey since he was afraid they would "end" em if ya know what i mean. my mom took one and asked if I wanted one. I felt terrible. I told her i could only take one..two at the max but i needed to talk to dan first. Called him up and sice we was in the middle of a bar and didnt want to argue with me he said it was ok if I got rid of it when it was old enough.

My mom said they barley had their eyes open and were siamese looking.
he went to the pet store to buy some kitten formula and while she was there the lady at the counter said she would taken in the other kittens.

thank heaven they found the other 3 kittens a home. I couldnt let myself take one and know the other three were going to go meet there "end".

Any ways....
Now I have a 2-3 week old kitten in my spare bedroom in a box. Hes all white with light gray ears and a light gray tail. I picked him up this morning from my moms house, warmed up about some kitten milk and fed him. he spends most of his waking time crying or climbing all over me. I wrap him up in a blanket and he falls asleep.just like a baby. I also fed him again in the afternoon and dan will again at 7:30 for me while im at work. He looks like he'll be a cute kitten.

I named him Stewie Jett Tomahawk Zanzabart.
dan likes stewie and of course i had to do some elton john with the whole Jett
and the last part is just humor. my cat mikey has a pretty long name...thats just something I do. makes the vet people insane.

if anyone has ever delt with this before...tiny orphan kittens...let me know.
like any new mom...i need adive. Ive read a few things on line to get me started. But advice is golden!

ps looks like i wont be getting a tiny dog any time soon!

You may want to consider feeding it more often. I can't remember the feeding schedule for kittens, but I'm all set if you get a squirrel. lol. Twirce a day just seems a bit too far apart for such a tiny kitten. Call a vet, and they should be able to give you a more appropriate feeding schedule.

Oh, and were waiting for the pics..... :rolleyes:

When I had to care for a litter of cats, I was told a minimum of every 3-4 hours for eating.

And yes, you should be setting your alarm to feed them throughout the night too. :gj:

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Originally Posted by tigerlily

You may want to consider feeding it more often. I can't remember the feeding schedule for kittens, but I'm all set if you get a squirrel. lol. Twirce a day just seems a bit too far apart for such a tiny kitten. Call a vet, and they should be able to give you a more appropriate feeding schedule.

Oh, and were waiting for the pics..... :rolleyes:

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I fed him at 6:30am, then at 11:30am. then dan just feed him about 10 minutes ago. and then there will be another feeding when I get home,about 1130pm.
he sleeps till I go in and move him around to feed.
The sched. is every 2-4 hours but like i said when he was asleep i just left him.

I would love to share pictures. of my bps...my rats and of mikey and the kitten. but I use my work computer since my home pc took a dive. Im thinking it would really irratate my boss if i download the program for pictures then uploaded all my photos. im might be jobless. maybe my stepdad will let me use him computer....we'll see.

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Originally Posted by tigerlily

And yes, you should be setting your alarm to feed them throughout the night too. :gj:

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I'm going to do an 1130 feeding. then a 2am feeding (right before i hit the sack) and then a 6am(now you know ill need an alarm setting for this on a weekend :P ) and then my 10am wake up time feed and so on.

I wish I could stay home from work mon-wed of this week. I took day hours instead of 2nd shift hours and I have to depend on my step sister (and at 16 she isnt vey dependable). :(

Ah, I misunderstood then - sorry. :gj: It sounds like you've got it under control. I hope the little guy does well for you. :D

For some odd reason I seem to remember something about you having to wipe their butt end with a warm wet facecloth to get them to defecate and urinate up to a certain age but darned if I can remember where I heard that. Something about the mother cat doing this to keep them from fouling the area and they won't "go" without that stimulation. Might be something to find out about and see if there's any truth to it.

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For some odd reason I seem to remember something about you having to wipe their butt end with a warm wet facecloth to get them to defecate and urinate up to a certain age but darned if I can remember where I heard that. Something about the mother cat doing this to keep them from fouling the area and they won't "go" without that stimulation. Might be something to find out about and see if there's any truth to it.

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its true!!

you can use a cotton ball with some warm water. you gently wipe the "zone" a few times and they should start to void. your supposed to do it everr feed...I tried but wasnt sure if anything came out since he was moving all around and I hardly got to wipe.

The thing is.dan says we gotta give him up once hes 12 weeks. I never wanted another cat but something about this little guy is going to make me cave. I mean hes totally a siamese and I bet we are going to be very close.

Say nothing to Dan, let the kitten worm it's way into his heart LOL. I found a dog when I was a kid, my dad said no way! I whined and begged...nope..no deal. My mother, wise woman she was, took me aside and said "let the dog do the work".

We had Jenny the beagle cross until she passed away at the ripe old age of 17. :)

We have 4 cats...all abandoned ones that needed homes. 2 of them I found as 6-week-old kittens. One is now 15 and the other is now 4. It's hard to let the little guys go. :)

I've nursed unweaned kittens before and also had litters from my cats...IME they generally need to eat every 2-3 hours. Even if he is asleep, you need to wake him up to eat. Kittens tend to sleep while mom is gone, and she will come back to feed them every 2-3 hours, and they wake up once she settles down and they smell her. They're just like human babies, they need every bit as much care, right down to elimination (which you sound like you've got down pat). One thing you may want to consider is getting a heating pad to put on one side of his box so he can stay warm. Without littermates and without a mom, he'll be cold since kittens can't regulate their body temperature well. If you get a heating pad (or even one of those rubber ones you put warm water into), cover it with something furry or soft so he can snuggle and feel secure.

Kudos for helping the little guy out! We need pics! :D

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I've nursed unweaned kittens before

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wow, you are brave... nursing kittens! i wouldn't want those razor teeth on my breasts :O LOL

we raise siamese cats and you should feed them every 2 - 3 hours, whipe their bums with a damp washcloth and give them lots of love :-D it's hard, me and my mom had to rotate to keep a litter of 3 kittens alive, it's draining but very well worth it, depending on how old the kitten is, you can get wet cat food and pix the formulia with it till it's kinda soupy then the kitten can drink it up. they can usually do that as long as they have their eyes open :-D

LMAO! Yeah right, I failed at breastfeeding my daughter so kittens would have been a definite no-no. :P

Is it just me or are they always messy? The ones I bottle-fed just slobbered EVERYWHERE. It was cute but they weren't keen on getting cleaned up. Kind of like human babies...lol!

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that is my 5 year old seal point siamese :-D her name is nala

Meezer! <3

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I love Siameses, my mom has always had them. I grew up with a cranky chocolate point named Tony, he lived to 18 years of age (died when I was 14). She now has 2 Siamese/himalayan crosses, one chocolate point and one of his sons, which is a blue point. I adore them, they are SO sweet and good-natured and cuddly.

My husband and I found a blue lynx point Siamese a few months ago, she had been dumped on the street in our neighborhood. She was about 6-8 months old and very scared, but became super lovey and playful once we brought her home. No one claimed her after 2 weeks of putting up ads, so we found her a great home in Dallas with an older lady whose cat had just passed away. I wish we could have kept her, she was so funny. We had named her Chloe.

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siamese are the best, i don't know why some people think that they are meen, we have 5 right now and we're expecting kittens, some of our mothers were bad so we had to raise them, we only eaise the original colors, blue point, seal point, lilac point and chocolate point. our cats arn't regestered b/c we dislike the pointy faced inbred cats that are in the show ring today, and they've mutted up pure bread siamese with tabbys and studd to get the weird points ... sorry for the rambel. but if the lil one you have is really a meeser, wour in for a treat :-D they are awesome cats

You'll end up keeping him, siamese cats are great! Ours is a little moody sometimes, but he sure is entertaining :) Sidney is a 12 year old (overweight) applehead chocolate point.

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aww your guys pictures are adorable!!!!!!

I am starting to really love this little guy.

hes doing great on his feedings eating about 2 tblsp a feeding.
He is starting to get darker in color around his face and bum.
he is lovey too! likes to cuddle in my robe on my chest. I keep him in a cat carrier with blankets. I used to warm it up in there with a heating pad but seems he really dosent use it.

My big boy mikey thinks hes some weird invader and watches him like a hawk when i let him wobble around. He doest try and be friendly but more so tries to be macho and act like he isnt into the kitten when they are really close.

I hope he grows to look stunning like alot of the pictures you guys have shown me. I named him Charlie.

my step sisters kitten is smaller in size and has one eye that isnt fully open. My mom thinks something is wrong with it. I tell her to stumulate the eye and give her some more time.

anyways thanks for everything guys and hopefully i can get pictures on soon.

my friends and i found a kitten at hour high school that was about 4-5 weeks old. We fed him every couple of hours with kitten formula when he got bigger we started mixing the formula wiht wet kittten food, which was rather funny to watch him try to eat as he would just chew the spood or whatever the food was in and rub it into his fac. now he is about 4 months old.

when we first got him
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now
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His name is Johnny the Homicidal Maniac which proved well after the numerous times he made us all bleed with is pirahna teeth. Now finaly he has stoped attacking anythign that moves.