we have a 13 week old kitten who came to us from a local rescue centre a week ago. we've had cats before but its been a long time since we had a kitten in the house, 17 years to be exact.
there are notes from the rescue place saying she's been done with flee stuff and wormed (although their flea stuff didn't really work as she was absolutely riddled with them). for the first couple of days, she was fine, ate but not loads. but since then, she's barely eating. i have gone through so much cat food to try different types, brands, flavours, all bar the odd nibble has been refused.
in desperation, i took her to the vet yesterday. no temp, heart seems ok, vet wormed her again and gave an injection to combat nausea. typically, she ate a random dog biscuit she's spotted on the side while at the vets! vet also gave me a tin of prescription appetite stimulating food.
since then, she's had diarrhea, that'll be the wormer. she is eating the prescription food but not in any great quantity and has still not touched any of the other food.
am really worried there's something wrong with her, next step would be vet again and blood tests. anyone else had problems getting a new kitten to eat?
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rescue kitten won't eat
nipersvest · 02/12/2014 15:37
Her systems sounds as if it's overloaded. Just bland food I think. Maybe a bit of boiled egg, chopped up.
Our kitten had the runs at first as he was run down. He's firmed up now though 
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Best of luck with yours.
She may come out at night to eat and drink. I would leave a small dish of food by her water and see if she eat during the night.
I had to do this when I moved houses. My cat hid under the dresser and woulndt come out for weeks. We knew he was eating and using the litter box, but just needed to acclimate to the new house.
Good luck to you and your new little cuddle bug. 
I recall that when Seniorboy came to us after my Mum died, he lived mainly on ham for a good few weeks. 
(He had gone into hiding somewhere in the house and only came out when we were all asleep.) In our defence, no-one expected him to live more than a month or two so we were indulging him on the basis of ' What the Heck - he can go out happy'.
That was when he was 13/14 and he's lived a life of indulgence ever since! I think he has a particularly iron constitution though so you're right - ham ain't the best thing for them but at least it keeps their system turning over after a fashion. I really think that without that, Seniorboy would have got out of the habit of eating, fallen into a despond and popped his clogs.
Glad she's eating again - and at least you know what her favourite treat thing is for future reference.
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