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To see or not to see
Let me just start out my story on how I aquired my foster kitten named
Roxanne. I work at a hotel and we have stray cats from the area and then seem to breed and birth on our property. There is one female cat named Patches(by a co-worker) that is the alpha female that has all the kittens, that I know of. Last year at this time she had 7 kittens and were all healthy and I fostered them for about 2 weeks and found homes for all of them, I kept one. This year she had kittens again, however, she let one behind, Roxanne. A guest and her family found the kitten. She was about 24-36 hours old (umbilicord was still attached but almost dried up) and she was cold and not moving. I told the couple that I would try to save her and resured them that I know what I was doing because I have fostered small kittens before, as young as 6 hours old. I am also a certified vet assistance and have worked in the animal field for 4 years and voluentered for a total of 10 years. They were fine with the idea and wanted Roxanne when she was old enough. I got food into her and she improved. Things were going good till 2 days later, what happen next I like to it an episode because I do not know what happened. I was at my grandmothers and I went to get Roxanne out of the box to feed her, because at this point I was force feeding her, and she had defacated all over herself and was having convolsion. I figured that she was to weak and that was why Patches left her. Roxanne was displaying all signs of dying. Labored, shallow, decreasing breathing and she was screaming out. It got to a point where she had stopped breathing, for at least 3 min maybe longer, I said my goodbyes and put her in her carrier and put her in the car. 2 hours later when I got home I went to bury her and when I took off the lid she was moving. I picked her up and held her. I did not know what to think she stopped breathing and was lifeless in my hand 2 hours ago. Since that day she has been a different kitten she eats like a pig. I took her to the vets a week later just make sure everything was ok with Roxanne plus I thought she had a unbilicord hernia. Vet could not tell me anything about her episode, what it was or what it could have been, and said she was healthy and I had nothing to worry about. Less then 3 days later I had to take her to the vets because she had a hole at her unbilicord site and it was infected. Vet gave me amoxicilin to give to her for 10 day and said the problem she is having was related to a hernia and that I needed to keep an eye on it. I am on day 5 and the infection has cleared up. The reason I am writing this thread is because I hope someone can help me out. I need to know first if anyone has witnessed an episode like this before and can enlighten me as to what happened(I am thinking a siezure), second how can you tell if a kitten is blind. |
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