What should cats pay attention to after the production and postpartum, how to care for the newborn kitten

1. Cat’s nest

The cat must be kept in a warm nest. You can use a carton, a disinfected cat cage, laundry basket, etc., pad a towel or blanket, and need a heat source to keep warm for the kitten, because the kitten cannot adjust its body temperature before 4 weeks. This heat source can be electric blanket, hot water bottle, or heating electric light. Don’t let the heat source be too close to the kitten to avoid burning them, and the heat source should be in the corner of the cat’s nest, so that the kitten moves to the nest when it is too hot. The temperature changes in the cat’s nest should be from 32-34 ° C (the hottest place) to 24-27 ° C on the other side. When the kitten is 4 weeks old, the external environment can remain around 24 ° C. If there are several nest kittens, you may not need to let the cat’s nest look as hot as one or two kittens, because they can warm up themselves.

The humidity is about 50 % to prevent dehydration. If you are too dry, you can spray a little water outside the cat’s nest, or put an air humidifier.

. It is best not to let the kittens under 3 weeks be exposed directly to the sun.

2. Basic care

It if the kitten has eaten some milk from the mother, it can survive Immunity. If the kitten has not eaten first milk, they are more likely to die. Maintaining hygiene is particularly important.

The precautions for hygiene

1) Do not let orphan cats come into contact with other pets (even if these pets have immune to the needle). The kitten wants for at least 14 days and it is not enough to be fatal infectious. Orphan cats are likely to have various germs and parasites.
2) Do not raise several nest kittens together.
3) Wash and disinfect the food tools with boiling water, cat nest mats and cat towels.
4) Washing your hands with sterilized soap every time you touch the kitten.
5) The cat milk cannot be saved for more than 24 hours. Cat milk that is not used for the moment should be stored in the refrigerator.
6) Cat milk placed at room temperature should not exceed 1 hour, and it cannot be fed to the kitten after exceeding.
7) Only heated the amount of feeding once and heat it in hot water. It is best not to use a microwave oven (if a microwave oven, shake the hot milk for a while, so that there may be very hot milk in the milk. spread).

3, feeding

frequency
0-2 weeks of kittens, feed once every 2-3 hours, feed once at night
2-3 weeks Kitten, feed every 4 hours, do not feed at night, but the feeding interval cannot exceed 6 hours
4-6 weeks of kittens, feed every 6 hours, do not feed at night. They can insist on not feeding for 8-10 hours, and they should eat some cat food by themselves. You can open the supply of cat food to them.

It feeding kittens to prevent kittens from being too low in body temperature, but if it is too frequent, the milk in the stomach has been unable to empty, which will cause milk fermentation to cause flatulence, which is also bad.

Cat milk powder

It recommended cat milk alternatives -cat milk powder, these cat milk powder is based on the energy formula required for the normal growth of the kitten. Give the amount required. All the rinse milk should be heated to 35-38 ° C in hot water before feeding the kitten (if a microwave oven is used, the milk bottle should be shaken after the heat is good, because the microwave oven is not uniform, it will produce hot spots. The hot -hot milk will be burned). If you want to know if the temperature of the milk is appropriate, you can drop a drop on the inside of your wrist. If you don’t feel or feel slightly warm, the temperature is appropriate.

If you can’t buy cat milk powder for a while, you can temporarily use the alternative of the following formula:
180ml whole milk (better goat milk)
2 egg yolk (not protein)
1/2 teaspoon (TSP) vegetable oil
1 drops of children’s vitamins
The stirry with hot water to heated to 35-38 ° C.

Cat food

The cats have to eat milk for four weeks. You can mix the cat milk from the canned cat food in the fourth week and place it in a shallow plate and heat it to the micro -temperature (if you use a microwave oven to heated, it only takes a few seconds to stir well after heating, because the microwave oven is not uniform) Let them try and get used to the taste of cats, and slowly eat them from the pot. Gradually reduce cat milk to increase the cat. A week later, you can add warm and dry kitten food to the pot, and gradually stop adding cat milk to the bowl, and reduce the cat milk in the bottle until there is no. When the kitten is six weeks old, they should eat kitten food and drink water from the bowl. This process must be advanced, don’t be too anxious. (Bingzi added: Do not give the kitten too much cat basin. Experience proves that kittens often treat excessive cats as cat toilets, stool or urinating inside, or stand directly in the cat bowl to eat. )

In drinking water from the basin

When the kittens are four or five weeks old, they should drink water from the basin. Provide them with a short but heavy plate, so that the kitten can stand inside and not overwhelm the dish. Try to put the discs in the corner and have a distance from the food basin. At the beginning, you can apply it with your fingers to its nose and receive it to put it in a basin. Because it has begun to eat from the basin at this time, it should be learned to drink water from the pot.

The feeding method

No matter which method you use to feed, the most important thing is not to let milk flow into the kitten’s lungs. With the kitten’s belly with your hand, let it stand in a piercing posture and raise its head slightly.

1) Feed with a spoon

This is a very slow way to take a lot of patience. Slowly pour the milk in the spoon into the kitten’s mouth. It’s too fast, so as not to flow into the kitten
. You can’t lift the kitten’s head too high, otherwise it will be fed in the lungs. The new kitten did not develop well, and when the milk was fed to the lungs, there would be no sadness at the time. Suitable for a kitten that is weak and not sucking by itself.

2) Drip milk with injection

is similar to feeding with a spoon. It is suitable for weak cats and does not suck them by themselves, but it is relatively clean and faster. Put the kitten quantitative milk in the needle tube, put it in the cat’s mouth, and drop a drop at a time, so that the kitten can swallow it calmly instead of being pinched. Read the amount of each feeding. If the kitten knows the milk comes from here, it may start to wash the head of the needle and suck the milk. At this time, you’d better be able to feed it with a bottle.

3) Feed with breast bottles

Healthy kittens to suck milk. This is also a more natural way to feed. Essence The size of the nipples is important. You need to cut a hole yourself. If the hole is too large, the milk will flow out of the hole one after another, which will allow the kitten to breathe into the lungs when breathing. If you need to squeeze the bottle to let the milk flow out, the Kong is too small, which will make the kitten eat hard and laborious, and not eat enough. (Right: Cat special bottle)

4) Seeing pipe feed

is the easiest, cleanest, and fastest, but it requires suitable tools and skilled skills to avoid milk milk Pour into the lungs. If the kitten is very weak, sometimes you can only feed like this.

each time after feeding, it is best to wipe the kitten’s mouth with a warm wet paper towel, and wipe the leaking milk. Don’t feed too much at a time, especially at the beginning. After feeding, imitate the kitten body by hand or dry towels, or gently pat the side of the kitten until it snores.

4, defecation

The kittens need to be stimulated to defecate. Use soft cloth, cotton balls, or face towels to dip the warm water to imitate the kitten part of the cat’s laxative. Most of the time, the kitten will urinate and stool. You should do this every time you feed, and the kitten should have urinating every time. The stool is not necessarily every time, but if there is, the amount of the stool and texture of each stool (normal stool should be toothpaste, yellow -green like mustard). Be sure to stimulate the bowel movement to avoid constipation. (If possible, you can stimulate it once before feeding, and do it again 15 minutes after feeding).

The stimulus defecation should insist on getting the kitten for 3-4 weeks, and then you can let it learn to use the cat sand pot. At the beginning, they don’t know the use of cat sand pots. You can stimulate them to defecate above the basin. When you see it, put it in the pot and let it

The cat, like a tiger, gave birth to a kitten, and after being discovered, the female cat would eat kittens. It thought that it was the safest to eat the kitten into the stomach.