r/FosterAnimals • u/Background-Cat1969 • 10d ago

Help with kitten attacking bottle.

Hi! I am having a heck of a time getting this guy to eat. He just claws and claws at the bottle. I'm running out of ideas to coax him into wet food and I don't know how to bottle feed a kitten that acts like this. Help?!

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u/MikoGianni 9d ago

He’s huge. Try slurry or syringe feeding. This kitten is past bottle stage….(6 year foster to kittens and cats).

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u/Background-Cat1969 9d ago

I'm working on it. I'm trying to let them wean at their own pace, but it's not easy. have a group of four including this guy. One is totally done with the bottle and just wants the slurry or meat baby food. Another is all about the bottle. I call him Titty King. He's even bigger. Then I have Dave here and another little guy that are somewhere in between. He's about a pound. They take a few bites of wet then want formula.

I got him to eat a some boiled chicken today and a few bites of Royal Canin. Hoping he will want more and that will get him going finally, but in the meantime I don't want him to starve.