Sick Kitten? ADVICE/HELP
I’ve been fostering a litter of kittens i’ve noticed that 3 of the 8 kittens i’ve had have been in a funk. the two other females have seemed to snap out of it and are playing, eating, using the restroom like normal again before this when they were in their funk they would just sleep most of the day but didn’t take it to seriously. But, again the third kitten a male is having more or less the same symptoms. He’s usually very playful and hasn’t been for the past 2/3 days. He’s been sleeping mostly all day. He’s walking around pretty slowly. He’s eating and drinking water and using the restroom on his own but sometimes i’ll have to put him to the litter box, water bowl or food (sometimes he goes in his own). The mama cat has been an outside cat and my first thought was maybe they have worms. I went to my local feed store and got a dewormer pill that has pretty great reviews. The mom ended up vomiting about 4 hours after administration and I believe I saw worms that looked like spaghetti but also (TMI) some that looked like fettuccine noodles. 311
She’s mo in quarantine.
All 8 of the kittens have all gotten the deworming pill and all are normal and active. However, This one male kitten (12 weeks old) is just not his normal self. He’s very mopey. He’s alert, eating, drinking and using the litter box but just not himself and it’s worrying me. The first day I noticed he was sick i took his temperature and it read almost 104 but he hasn’t had a fever these past two days.
I noticed today that his poo came out in little nuggets but then one normal log that was semi solid but not runny or diarrhea like. He’s breathing normally, no eye discharge, nose discharge anything like that. Is there any advice on what I can do? Or what it could possibly be? Is it the worms? and if he was given a dewormer will he be okay but just need a few days for them to pass? (I gave them the dewormer less than 48 hours ago). I’ve also checked his gums they appear fine. I did the pinch test to see if he was dehydrated and he doesn’t seem to be. I just don’t know what’s wrong or what could be wrong.
I realistically don’t have the financial means to take him to a vet to run all these types of test and i figure if i can maybe pinpoint these symptoms to something it’ll save me money from having to go in there without any real idea of what’s going on.
Please anything helps! 664