24/06/2020
Veterinary advice .. ways to care for orphan cats
For them - Asmaa Abushal
If your cat was exposed to risks during childbirth and died, or one of the kittens refrained from breastfeeding, or found small kittens in the street without a family for them, and you wanted to save them from hunger and the danger of the street, all these cases require you to save the kittens quickly, and know the methods of dealing With infants during this stage.
Foundations of care
Veterinarian Elham Ahmed says to Al-Hann: The early days of the life of young cats need special care from the breeder, because he is required to replace the mother's absence for any reason. Hence the responsibility of the cat owner is a mother, a rescuer and a doctor at the same time in this critical age, and from The most important basics that you should take care of:
Dr. Ilham Ahmed
1- Peperona can be purchased from animal stores or replaced with a dropper, syringe without tooth, a bottle of lens solution, or any similar method.
2 - In the first two weeks, attention should be paid to breastfeeding small cats every two hours, about 6 cm. With increasing age, the period can be gradually spaced according to the cat's need.
3 - During lactation, care must be taken not to put the cat diagonally on the back. Rather, the best situation is to place the cat on her face with a slightly raised body and head, or to feed the cat in a standing position on the hind legs so that she does not experience the "chunk" and put her life at risk.
4 - After feeding, bring a cotton drenched in warm water and thoroughly wipe the cat's excretion areas until you take out, as the cats at this stage cannot do this task alone and the mother after feeding licks this area with her tongue until she exits and then flushes, until she Cats do the extraction without assistance at the age of a month or a month and a half.
5 - Be sure to warm the cats well, and place a fur doll with them to make up for the mother's texture.
6 - In the event that an unpleasant smell appears to the cats as a result of the absence of the mother's hygiene element, it is not allowed to resort to bathing until after at least two months, but dry shampoo for these matters can be purchased from stores selling animals' belongings, or using wet wipes for children and drying The cat's body is well-lit without any exposure to the air.
She explained d. Elham Ahmed Another way to care for young cats is to place orphaned kittens with another cat who has cats of the same age but during their absence, and remote monitoring, it is possible to embrace the young and be a surrogate mother for them and thus take charge of feeding, cleaning and everything without the intervention of the breeder.
Cat problems
There is no doubt that artificial feeding and the absence of the mother affect the health of the kittens, and may expose them to some health risks, how can the breeder deal with them?
Dr. Ilham Ahmed answered this question, saying: Breast milk gives young cats immunity that protects them from many diseases, so orphan cats need additional food when they reach two weeks in compensation for minerals and vitamins, so you can enter "cerelac" wheat or rice side by side with the milk meal, and if you accept The cat. It is possible that we can start a week later, to provide other meals, such as ge**er veggies or skimmed yogurt. With a month old, you can serve skim nesto and boiled and well-crushed vegetables.
And I listed d. Ilham Ahmed One of the problems that the breeder can face with orphan cats is in the following lines:
* Usually sucking places to urinate
This habit arises in orphan cats and dogs as a result of feeling hungry in the absence of the mother, so the animal begins to search for an alternative to his mother's chest and finds nothing but resorting to this habit with his brothers or himself, and drinking urine.
Drinking enough milk does not prevent the cat from stopping this habit, and thus the breeder can paint this area with an unpleasant taste, in which case, it is preferable to use diluted vinegar by one tablespoon of vinegar on a quarter of a cup of water.
Vaccinations
There are two types of vaccinations for kittens:
1 - Quartet from the age of two months: It is a first dose and another booster dose after "21 days to a month", and a second dose one year after the first dose.
2- Rabies vaccination: from the age of 4: 6 months, taken once every 3 years.
* Insects
There are two types of insects, internal represented by abdominal worms and external like fleas, and before the age of two months it is not recommended to take any medications if the kittens infect either of them, but each type has alternative methods of treatment.
Fleas: If the cat is infected with fleas, it must be disposed of manually without using any alternative method that may kill the cat.
- Worms: Small cats are often exposed to worms, especially if they are from street cats, which leads to cats not benefiting from food. It is not correct for two months to take a worm disk, but this problem can be eliminated by boiling leaves from "wormwood", "chamomile flower leaves" , "Chamomile" are all different names for the same grass, boiled with water, and the cat is taken from him twice a day by 1 cm for 4 days to clean the stomach and expel worms
Diarrhea
Diarrhea in young ages is dangerous and sometimes fatal, so the cat needs to separate that the rest of the cats and warm them well, while taking a dose of "Antinal" or "Kapect", a medicine for children drinking, taken from them 1/2 cm twice a day until the diarrhea stops.
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