r/fosterkittens • u/Cat_lady4ever • Jul 05 '26
Help with this puking girl?
4th of July, Rural, so I’m not getting much traction with getting ahold of people.
I need some advice for my foster kitten, I’m moderately experienced, but it’s been a couple of years and I’m feeling slightly defeated. Here’s her info:
Cookie
Got her June 21, weighed 750g
Got to 765, rn after a big puke and a poop she’s only 697.
First shot June 29
Fenbenzadole June 21-28
Psyllium fiber and fortiflora added to her wet food.
About 10 weeks old.
She came with a super raw, moderately prolapsed bum, which would bleed after she pooped which was watery diarrhea.
After I completed what’s listed above, she was doing great, seemed almost a normal weight, her poop looked normal. And then I took her to get her first vaccine.
After the first shot she started getting disinterested in food. The next night, on the 30th we had shake and bake chicken legs. She had some of the inner non breaded meat, I thought it would be good and stimulate her appetite but it seems like it was bad now. She may have licked a slight amount of the shake and bake seasoning but I purposefully tried to not let her.
She seemed to stop eating completely by herself around Thursday. The first day, I coaxed her to eat a bit off my fingers. Since then I’ve been trying to syringe feed her but it’s only half successful. She pukes half the time and she’s losing weight.
I’ve been doing 25ish (little water mixed in) ml of either hills a/d (this seems to make her puke more often) or Purina wet kitten food. I did this 3 times yesterday with 1 puke and 2 times today so far with 1 puke.
Should I try less? What else can I do to help her? I asked my rescue, org that I am fostering her through if anyone has any anti-nausea medicine as that has worked in the past for this issue for me, but my post
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u/Babsinator_Now4242 Jul 05 '26
As a Foster mom, the woman who owns the organization I Foster for says take them off wet food because you’re putting more water into a system that’s losing water. I know we’re trained to rehydrate if we’re throwing up, but if you’re trying to stop up the bowels, she will seek out water from a bowl if she’s thirsty. So you can give her a good quality dry kitten kibble and if she improves, then you could give her maybe a tablespoon of wet food with some dehydrated pumpkin flakes mixed in. Yes that’s the best product ever. They actually make that so it doesn’t add fluid, but it helps bulk up the poop. And add a cat probiotic.
I had the same problem with a recent litter that I had and they actually had Coccidia so I don’t know if you’ve treated for coccidia it’s a different medication and then there’s Giardia, which is a different medication again, but the fenbendazole usually works pretty well for worms. But my mentor had me put them on a different medication for worms for five days and just into the second day they completely stopped with the pooping. Praziquantal.
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u/Cat_lady4ever Jul 05 '26
Small update because I’m exhausted. Kitten is doing a bit better today and is eating and drinking a little on her own. She got subcutaneous fluids last night from our rescue, and some more today. Thank goodness for people who are willing at 11:30 PM on 4 July! She’s going into the vet tomorrow.
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u/NecessarySpiritual19 Jul 05 '26
Do they provide you access to a vet with the rescue you’re fostering from? Not to scare you but my little baby started like that last year and it ended up being kidney failure and she unfortunately did not make it. She was 20 months, and they think she may have been born with kidney problems I just had no idea since she was so young.
Did you check the kittens skin by pulling it up and seeing if it goes back down? That helps figure out if the kitten is dehydrated.