Bottle Feeding Baby Kittens

Never feed a kitten on her back like a human baby would eat as this can cause the kitten to inhale fluid into the lungs.

Bottle feeding baby kittens.

It includes information on feeding weaning medical care developmental milestones and more. Regular human baby bottles will likely be too big but most pet stores have newborn kitten bottles and nipples as well as a commercial formula specifically designed for kittens. Always bottle feed in a natural belly down posture the kitten should be comfortably lying or seated with her belly toward the floor. This resource provides instructions for caring for bottle feeding kittens bottle babies very young kittens who have been abandoned or orphaned.

Table of contents 1 warmth and bedding 2 feeding 3 weaning 4 weight and hydration 5. Feeding the wrong sort of milk such as cow s milk can have short term and long term effects including diarrhea dehydration nutritional deficiencies and long term health problems due to poor growth. You re going to need to purchase kitten formula you cannot feed kittens the milk that is in your fridge. Make sure to check with your veterinarian if this is the.

Feed kittens using a safe posture.