Cats are naturally timid. If they are new here, they need to adapt to the new environment.
Don't scare the cat when it is eating, otherwise it may cause anorexia.
Taboo: Never give the kitten milk! Many cats lack enzymes to digest and absorb milk in their stomachs. Drinking milk can lead to indigestion and diarrhea! And the composition of milk is different from that of cat milk.
Always prepare clean water for the kitten to drink (tap water is not allowed! ) and pay attention to replace it every day.
Try it in the following ways:
fodder
frequency
Kittens of 0-2 weeks old are fed every 2-3 hours and once at night.
2-3-week-old kittens are fed every 4 hours, not at night, but the feeding interval should not exceed 6 hours.
4-6-week-old kittens are fed every 6 hours and don't need to be fed at night. They can persist for 8- 10 hours without feeding, and eat some cat food themselves. You can offer them cat food in public.
Often feeding kittens can prevent them from hypothermia, but if they are fed too often, the milk in their stomachs will never be emptied, which will cause flatulence because of milk fermentation, which is also bad.
Cat milk powder
Use the recommended cat milk substitute-cat milk powder. These cat milk powders are prepared according to the energy required for the normal growth of kittens, and the required amount should be fed according to the instructions of the milk powder. All brewed milk should be heated to 35-38℃ in hot water before feeding it to kittens (if microwave oven is used, shake the bottle after heating, because uneven heating in microwave oven will produce hot spots, and kittens will burn after drinking hot milk). If you want to know whether the temperature of milk is appropriate, you can drop a drop on the inside of your wrist. If you don't feel or feel warm, the temperature is appropriate.
If you can't buy cat milk powder for a while, you can temporarily use the following formula milk powder substitutes:
180ml whole milk (goat milk is better)
2 egg yolks (no egg whites)
1/2 teaspoons of vegetable oil
1 drop of children's vitamins
Stir well and heat to 35-38℃ with hot water.
cat food
Cats must breastfeed until they are four weeks old. Starting from the fourth week, you can mix cat milk and a little canned cat food in a shallow dish and heat it to a slight temperature (if it is heated in a microwave oven, it will only take a few seconds, and it will be stirred evenly after heating, because the microwave oven is not evenly heated), so that they can try and get used to the taste of canned cat, and slowly they will eat it from the basin. Gradually reduce cat milk and increase cat cans. After a week, you can add soft and dry baby cat food to the basin, and gradually stop adding cat milk to the bowl and reduce the cat milk in the bottle until there is none. When the kitten is six weeks old, it should eat its own kitten food and drink the water in the bowl. This process should be gradual, don't be too anxious. Don't use too big a cat food bowl for kittens. Experience has proved that kittens often use a cat food bowl that is too big as a cat toilet, defecate or urinate in it, or eat directly in the cat food bowl. )
Drink the water in the basin
When the kitten is four or five weeks old, it should be able to drink the water in the basin by itself. Provide them with a short and heavy plate so that the kitten can stand in it without being knocked over. Try to put the plate in the corner and keep a distance from the basin. At first, you can dip your fingers in water and apply it to its nose, leading it to the place where you put the basin. Because it has started to eat from the basin at this time, it should soon learn to drink from the basin.
Feeding mode
No matter which feeding method, the most important thing is not to let the milk flow into the kitten's lungs. Hold the kitten's stomach with your hands, let it lie prone and raise its head a little.
1) Eat with a spoon
This is a slow and patient way. Pour the milk in the spoon slowly into the kitten's mouth every time, not too fast, so as to avoid the milk flowing to the kitten.
In the lungs. Don't hold the kitten's head too high, or it will be fed to the lungs. Newborn kittens don't develop well, and there will be no sadness and cough when they are fed to their lungs. Suitable for weak kittens who can't suck by themselves.
2) drip milk with an injection needle tube
Similar to spoon feeding, it is suitable for weak kittens who can't suck by themselves, but it is cleaner and faster. Put a certain amount of kitten milk in the needle tube and put it in the cat's mouth, one drop at a time, so that the kitten can swallow it calmly instead of choking. Write down the amount of each feeding. If the kitten knows that the milk comes from here, it may start to wash and suck the needle tip to suck out the milk. At this time, you'd better use a bottle instead of feeding it.
3) Feeding with a bottle
Healthy, nursing kittens like to use bottles, which is also a more natural way to feed. Kittens will eat by themselves until they are full. The size of the hole in the nipple is very important. You need to cut a hole yourself. The size of this hole is such that the bottle is turned upside down and only one drop of milk drops at a time. If the hole is too big, milk will flow out of the hole one after another, which will make the kitten breathe into the lungs. If you need to squeeze the bottle to let the milk flow out, the hole is too small, which will make the kitten eat very hard and not enough.
4) Eating through the esophagus
This is the simplest, cleanest and fastest method, but it requires the right tools and skilled skills to avoid pouring milk into the lungs. If the kitten is weak, sometimes it can only be fed like this.
After each feeding, it is best to wipe the kitten's mouth with a warm wet tissue to wipe off the leaked milk. Don't feed too much at once, especially at the beginning. After feeding, massage the kitten's whole body by imitating the licking action of the cat's mother with hands or dry towels, or pat and massage the kitten's side until it burps.
weight
A food scale accurate to "grams" is very useful. It can be used to weigh kittens every day to ensure their healthy growth. The birth weight of kittens is about 90- 120g, which should be increased to twice the birth weight in the first week 1 ~ 2, and to three times the birth weight in the third to fourth weeks. You should gain weight10-13g every day.
You can refer to this table:
The ideal age, ambient temperature (Celsius), daily feeding times, daily feeding amount and ideal weight of the kitten.
0- 1 week 29.4-32.2 6 hello13-15ml 90-120g per100g (at birth).
1-2 weeks 26.7-29.4 5 feed15-18ml170-230g per 100g body weight (one week).
2-3 weeks 23.9-26.7 4 Feed 300-350g 20ml per 100g body weight.
3-4 weeks 2 1. 1-23.9 3 Feed 20ML per 100g body weight and start eating 350-400g cat food.
For more than 4 weeks, 2 1. 1.3 mainly eats cat food, and some cats eat more than 400 grams of cat food.
If it is a newly claimed kitten, you should ask its original owner what food to feed it, feed it the original food first, and then gradually change the food you prepared for it after a period of time.
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