Addie is one of those rare youngsters that we as fosters’ get, a kitten at an early age that is happy. She was only 4 weeks old when we got her and almost from the start she didn’t fear us, she engaged us and rolled over for belly rubs early on and most importantly she purred. This last litter of four consisted of two kittens nearly frozen with fear, one that was confident but aloof and this little girl. Her personality from the get go made up for the difficulties the other three presented.
Addie has been with us for nearly 6 weeks, her initial weigh in was 1’1oz. A week ago when neutered she was 1’15 and 3/4oz but she’s lost nearly 1oz in the interim. Her body looked frail and her appetite was waining. When we fed her we thinned out her canned food to a slightly soupy consistency as we did for all the kittens under the theory that we’d be increasing their liquid intake and they’d like the easily lapped up mixture. I noticed when she was eating once that what she lapped up from the plate was more liquid than solid food and I suspected that was trouble brewing. I think we were wrong for thinning out the food and have been working to avoid thinning it out altogether.
One more thing, we have liquid vitamin gel and we started giving her that too before or after feedings. I cannot speak to highly about vitiamins added too Addie’s diet, in two days she went from listless to a bit more active and she readily eats now the food that we give her.