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Whiskers breaking off
The whiskers of my girlfriend's 6 month old kitten have been breaking off
since before he was adopted from a shelter. He's also kind've bony for his age (only 6 lbs). Everyone remarks that they can feel his ribs and spine more than with other kittens, including more than a slinky 5 month old Siamese male who is his companion kitten. He seems to eat normally; Eukaneuba and a couple other "high quality" processed kitten foods. How do we correct his problems? Is it nutritional? Was wondering whether we should get some fish oil to put on his food. |
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"Knack" wrote in message link.net... The whiskers of my girlfriend's 6 month old kitten have been breaking off since before he was adopted from a shelter. He's also kind've bony for his age (only 6 lbs). Everyone remarks that they can feel his ribs and spine more than with other kittens, including more than a slinky 5 month old Siamese male who is his companion kitten. He seems to eat normally; Eukaneuba and a couple other "high quality" processed kitten foods. How do we correct his problems? Is it nutritional? Was wondering whether we should get some fish oil to put on his food. BTW, the kitten is not a Cornish Rex (broken whiskers a trait of that breed). He's a grayish "tiger" kitty with spots, stripes, tail rings, bracelets, M on forehead, black toes, etc. |
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"Knack" wrote in message link.net... The whiskers of my girlfriend's 6 month old kitten have been breaking off since before he was adopted from a shelter. He's also kind've bony for his age (only 6 lbs). Everyone remarks that they can feel his ribs and spine more than with other kittens, including more than a slinky 5 month old Siamese male who is his companion kitten. He seems to eat normally; Eukaneuba and a couple other "high quality" processed kitten foods. How do we correct his problems? Is it nutritional? Was wondering whether we should get some fish oil to put on his food. BTW, the kitten is not a Cornish Rex (broken whiskers a trait of that breed). He's a grayish "tiger" kitty with spots, stripes, tail rings, bracelets, M on forehead, black toes, etc. |
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"Knack" wrote in message link.net... The whiskers of my girlfriend's 6 month old kitten have been breaking off since before he was adopted from a shelter. He's also kind've bony for his age (only 6 lbs). Everyone remarks that they can feel his ribs and spine more than with other kittens, including more than a slinky 5 month old Siamese male who is his companion kitten. He seems to eat normally; Eukaneuba and a couple other "high quality" processed kitten foods. How do we correct his problems? Is it nutritional? Was wondering whether we should get some fish oil to put on his food. BTW, the kitten is not a Cornish Rex (broken whiskers a trait of that breed). He's a grayish "tiger" kitty with spots, stripes, tail rings, bracelets, M on forehead, black toes, etc. |
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The whiskers of my girlfriend's 6 month old kitten have been breaking off
since before he was adopted from a shelter. He's also kind've bony for his age (only 6 lbs). Kittens sometimes play rough and break their whiskers. Other kittens sometimes nibble on cagemates whiskers. Some kittens are just skinny while some are fat, just like humans. Siamese are generally very slim so if he's slimmer than a 5 month old siamese, that's pretty slim. Of course he could have worms. Did he ever get an initial vet visit, testing and vaccines? Maybe he has fleas and worms? Make sure he's still eating his wet kitten food along with dry. If he continues to be skinny, I'd take him to the vet. |
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The whiskers of my girlfriend's 6 month old kitten have been breaking off
since before he was adopted from a shelter. He's also kind've bony for his age (only 6 lbs). Kittens sometimes play rough and break their whiskers. Other kittens sometimes nibble on cagemates whiskers. Some kittens are just skinny while some are fat, just like humans. Siamese are generally very slim so if he's slimmer than a 5 month old siamese, that's pretty slim. Of course he could have worms. Did he ever get an initial vet visit, testing and vaccines? Maybe he has fleas and worms? Make sure he's still eating his wet kitten food along with dry. If he continues to be skinny, I'd take him to the vet. |
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The whiskers of my girlfriend's 6 month old kitten have been breaking off
since before he was adopted from a shelter. He's also kind've bony for his age (only 6 lbs). Kittens sometimes play rough and break their whiskers. Other kittens sometimes nibble on cagemates whiskers. Some kittens are just skinny while some are fat, just like humans. Siamese are generally very slim so if he's slimmer than a 5 month old siamese, that's pretty slim. Of course he could have worms. Did he ever get an initial vet visit, testing and vaccines? Maybe he has fleas and worms? Make sure he's still eating his wet kitten food along with dry. If he continues to be skinny, I'd take him to the vet. |
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"Mary" wrote in message ... The whiskers of my girlfriend's 6 month old kitten have been breaking off since before he was adopted from a shelter. He's also kind've bony for his age (only 6 lbs). Kittens sometimes play rough and break their whiskers. Other kittens sometimes nibble on cagemates whiskers. Some kittens are just skinny while some are fat, just like humans. Siamese are generally very slim so if he's slimmer than a 5 month old siamese, that's pretty slim. Of course he could have worms. Did he ever get an initial vet visit, testing and vaccines? Maybe he has fleas and worms? Make sure he's still eating his wet kitten food along with dry. If he continues to be skinny, I'd take him to the vet. Yeah, he got an initial visit to the vet and two more visits since that one, and he's been adopted for only 3 weeks now. No worms, no fleas, but he did initially have ear mites. The kittens sure do play rough though. It would be a coincidence if both the Siamese and whatever cagemate the little fella was with in the shelter's cage both nibbled on his whiskers. We haven't spotted the Siamese doing that to him yet. He doesn't get much wet kitten food, partly because we don't want to spoil him and partly because there are only 2 brands of wet kitten food locally available. |
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"Mary" wrote in message ... The whiskers of my girlfriend's 6 month old kitten have been breaking off since before he was adopted from a shelter. He's also kind've bony for his age (only 6 lbs). Kittens sometimes play rough and break their whiskers. Other kittens sometimes nibble on cagemates whiskers. Some kittens are just skinny while some are fat, just like humans. Siamese are generally very slim so if he's slimmer than a 5 month old siamese, that's pretty slim. Of course he could have worms. Did he ever get an initial vet visit, testing and vaccines? Maybe he has fleas and worms? Make sure he's still eating his wet kitten food along with dry. If he continues to be skinny, I'd take him to the vet. Yeah, he got an initial visit to the vet and two more visits since that one, and he's been adopted for only 3 weeks now. No worms, no fleas, but he did initially have ear mites. The kittens sure do play rough though. It would be a coincidence if both the Siamese and whatever cagemate the little fella was with in the shelter's cage both nibbled on his whiskers. We haven't spotted the Siamese doing that to him yet. He doesn't get much wet kitten food, partly because we don't want to spoil him and partly because there are only 2 brands of wet kitten food locally available. |
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"Mary" wrote in message ... The whiskers of my girlfriend's 6 month old kitten have been breaking off since before he was adopted from a shelter. He's also kind've bony for his age (only 6 lbs). Kittens sometimes play rough and break their whiskers. Other kittens sometimes nibble on cagemates whiskers. Some kittens are just skinny while some are fat, just like humans. Siamese are generally very slim so if he's slimmer than a 5 month old siamese, that's pretty slim. Of course he could have worms. Did he ever get an initial vet visit, testing and vaccines? Maybe he has fleas and worms? Make sure he's still eating his wet kitten food along with dry. If he continues to be skinny, I'd take him to the vet. Yeah, he got an initial visit to the vet and two more visits since that one, and he's been adopted for only 3 weeks now. No worms, no fleas, but he did initially have ear mites. The kittens sure do play rough though. It would be a coincidence if both the Siamese and whatever cagemate the little fella was with in the shelter's cage both nibbled on his whiskers. We haven't spotted the Siamese doing that to him yet. He doesn't get much wet kitten food, partly because we don't want to spoil him and partly because there are only 2 brands of wet kitten food locally available. |
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