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In a much earlier posting, you mentioned your friend Melissa had a
kitten with special needs from the mother having distemper. I wondered what that entailed. I ask because I have a kitten I am handraising, and she has multiple problems. The vet claims she has a birth defect, but I wonder if the mother (a stray) might have had something, because she has eyesight, joint, and growth problems. She is also very stunted, weighing only 10 oz at 5 wks. I just wondered if any of these were the problems your friend's cat encountered? |
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in article , Priscilla Ballou
at wrote on 8/31/04 12:23 PM: In article , (Samantha G.) wrote: In a much earlier posting, you mentioned your friend Melissa had a kitten with special needs from the mother having distemper. I wondered what that entailed. I ask because I have a kitten I am handraising, and she has multiple problems. The vet claims she has a birth defect, but I wonder if the mother (a stray) might have had something, because she has eyesight, joint, and growth problems. She is also very stunted, weighing only 10 oz at 5 wks. I just wondered if any of these were the problems your friend's cat encountered? Hazel aka Boo-boo is a grown cat now, but she's never gotten very big. She's maybe 5 pounds after eating her dinner, but her big thing is lack of coordination. Her hind quarters don't coordinate properly with her fore quarters, so she staggers and falls over a lot. She can't climb or jump and, as I implied, her balance is lousy. I don't think she has any vision or hearing problems that I recall. She is, however, a very sweet and loving cat. She and I had a serious cuddlefest when I met her. Melissa says she doesn't warm up quickly to people, but she took to me like a mouse to cheese. Melissa didn't know what exactly was wrong with her because they found her in a dumpster when she was a tiny kitten, IIRC. For years she and the vets (who I would have expected to have some more knowledge) just said unspecified neurological damage, but then someone who'd had a similar cat took one look at her and said her mother had had distemper, that that kind of neurological damage was typical of that situation. Hope this helps! Priscilla My vet had four kittens whose mother had distemper to adopt out. They seemed normal except for coordination and they shook their heads like someone with Parkison's might. They said they were quite healthy aside from that. |
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My current issue is that the kitten feral, probably about 6 weeks old,
doesn't know what a litter box is for. I've put him down in it after meals, but he doesn't do anything. Over night he left poop in one corner of his cage and pee in another. Neither was in the litter box. Try putting some dirt on top of the litter. Ingrid |
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My current issue is that the kitten feral, probably about 6 weeks old,
doesn't know what a litter box is for. I've put him down in it after meals, but he doesn't do anything. Over night he left poop in one corner of his cage and pee in another. Neither was in the litter box. Try putting some dirt on top of the litter. Ingrid |
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