We learned a lot about kittens in the last two days. Things like they have to be warm enough to eat or they can't digest the food. Warm enough is more than 98 degrees. They have to eat 10ml of formula every two hours when they're three weeks old. If you don't already have the formula, you can make some out of egg yolks, mayonnaise, canned milk, and unflavored gelatin. And you can use the syringe left over from the kids' antibiotic to feed the kitten, if you can get him to open his mouth. Next time we see a pregnant cat, we're going to buy the formula and the bottle because by the time you find out the kittens need it, there isn't time to go to the store and buy it.
But after all we learned, we were unable to save the last two kittens. We think Mama cat didn't have enough milk for them. She kept leaving them alone so they didn't stay warm enough. Did they get too cold to eat? Or was there something else wrong with them that she could see and we couldn't? Who knows.
Kevin says, "Skye was a bad mama and she let her kittens die."
Dad responds, "You know, those kittens have a spirit mama in heaven, and she's probably happy to see them. And we hope they learned to like people while they were here."
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