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[> [> [> Subject: ?Milk screwed up Taco.....
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Shannie
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Date Posted: 15:18:48 06/29/01 Fri
They say for kittens, it's best to take them at 8-10 wks, preferably 10 wks..but I think that all depends on whether they're still with their Mom or not (I'm not sure your Fimo is a motherless kitten or not. They start weaning kittens around 4-5 weeks old..some take longer, some wean more quickly).
As for milk, when I got Taco back in 1993, I knew nothing about cats. I got him from a farm and he couldn't have been older than 6-7 wks old. I didn't know about milk, so naturally I gave him some (he was so tiny)....from that point on, he had chronic diarrhea/loose stools. Not copious amounts as a cat might if sick, but just that when he went normally, it was runny (and him being a manx with a stubby little broken tail that hung down, let me tell ya, it was a mess). I took nearly a year to get this settled....after many fecal tests, diet changes, hundreds of $'s. One Vet finally was smart enough to diagnose him....with a type of chronic inflammatory bowel disease...most likely started by irritation from milk.
He's fine now, 7 yrs later LOL......but I now would never give cats cow's milk.....they just don't need it if they are being fed quality kitten food and getting fresh water. Humans are the only ones who drink "foreign milk" LOL (meaning?....most species only drink the milk of their Moms and after they are weaned, that's it)....so it makes sense to me that cats don't need cow's milk.
According to the picture, Fimo looks to be about 4-5 weeks old. At that age, if there is no Mom in the picture (or a surrogate Mom cat who's nursing them), the foster Mom is likely bottle feeding them til they are fully weaned......so unless you have time to bottle feed 4-6 times a day, you might want to wait LOL
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