Late Friday after giving up Buster I got a text saying there was another kitten that had dropped to 410 grams and needed some special care. I knew very little about the kitten.
I trudged out to the shelter again on Saturday and located my next kitten.
A tiny black kitten peered at me from inside a cage with her mother and sister. It was obvious that her sister was much brighter and bigger than she was. Her sibling is around 600 grams, she's dropped down to 410 grams and is little more than skin and bones. I lugged her off home thinking this will be easy, Buster was 381 grams and he shot up quickly and easily.
Heh heh...wishful thinking.
Finding anything this kitten will eat is near impossible. Then she had her first poop.
I am eternally glad I don't have a easy turned stomach. It would take a *lot* to make me heave.
Her poop was the oddest color, runny as water and the absolute foul stench coming off it was the worst I've ever encountered. It did however provide possible insight to why she was so foul as a live worm wriggled in it. (Do you have a steel stomach? if not apologies).
So I got straight on to her two consecutive days of worming her.
Battles with getting her to eat anything, especially when my weight builder and proper kitten food are out of availability at the present makes it even harder.
I thought I found a break through with raw chicken. She actually showed interest in that and ate independently.
You know what thought, thought? Just when you think you've hit a turning point *smack* you're back to square one.
Her belly never feels like she's eaten anything, a few times now when I've tried force feeding her 'anything' to get her to have something in her belly she's immediately begun heaving like she's going to throw up.
I mean generic kitten foods do stink and I'd probably try to hurl to if I was forced to eat them but still, she's a kitten....
So I'm at wits end as what to feed her, whether to try force feed her or let her decide herself if she's going to eat. Second option could mean she just gives up.
Her poop hasn't improved, its still foul with dead worms or 'something' in it that's not normal healthy kitten poop.
Truthfully I believe she's on the verge of the end. I'm not sure if a supply of weight booster will help anymore. She has no reserves to fall back on and no will that I've seen to eat independently.
Alas it will be up to the vet as yes or no if I persevere or its decided she's too far gone. I cannot help a kitten that can't or won't help itself. As much as it kills me I'd rather her life end peacefully than one morning stepping into the room to find her dead.
Its heartbreaking and frustrating feeling so helpless. The only thing I am certain of is there is something severely wrong with this little girl.
Meet Ebony Little. She may only be here for a short while but at least someone cared enough to tell her story.
My fingers are crossed and I'm wishing hard that she'll be given a chance or reach a turning point soon.
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