New tiny kitten

[Fatiguedwithlife]

Hello! We have acquired a teeny kitten (supposedly 9 weeks old) but she’s the runt and is very small.
i haven’t weighed her, we only got her today.
We’ve kitten proofed the lounge and are keeping the dog and the other cat away.
She has one snotty eye which I’m cleaning every couple of hours with cooled saline solution
I’ve bought kitten milk and dry and wet food (the same as she was having where she came from).
Shes done a wee and a loose poo in the litter tray and mostly slept. She wasn’t interested in the food or water or saucer of milk so I syringed about 5ml warm kitten milk into her and that woke her up a bit. she then ate a little wet food.

are we doing the right things?

Oh goodness she’s gorgeous!! Loving the smudges on her face - our calico is called cookie dough dynamo because she looks like badly mixed cookie dough with all those colours lol 😂

She is very sweet and very tiny. She will probably need feeding every four hours or so to build her up a bit.

Just seen the updated picture. What a difference!!

Penny is absolutely adorable. I can’t believe the change in her in such a short space of time. She’s certainly fallen on her feet coming to live with you OP.

😍😍😍

What an adorable little kitten 😻 Lucky little Penny to have found you!

Our tiny cat weighed 450g when we got him, he was also the runt of the litter. I honestly worried he’d die overnight. He’d doubled that weight within a couple of weeks, and now he’s just a big greedy knacker and you’d never guess he was ever so underweight.

This thread has made me feel all gooey inside, Penny is simply adorable! You are both lucky to have found each other!

Well done OP , you probably saved her life . She’s gorgeous. Maybe worth ringing the local rescues, sometimes they can offer support and persuasion to people like her breeder and improve the lives of her other cars. Our local rspca does.

omg what a gorgeous little cat, and well done to you for rescuing her. I feel she will be one spoilt little kitty 🐱

She looks so much better , in the original picture her coat looked like it was standing up now it looks lovely , amazing what difference you can make with 24hrs of loving care .

Oh well done you! So lovely to see her perk up in a series of pics

Pretty little Penny!😻😻😻
She has landed on her paws with you, I am so glad, and hope to see lots of updates as she gets stronger, bigger and into mischief!

I have loved reading this this morning, so glad she found you.

Here she is this morning sitting in her favourite spot watching my son have breakfast! She has gained nearly 100g in just four days and is starting to have longer waking periods. She is getting cuter by the day.
thank you all for holding my hand through this

She is adorable!😻😻😻

She is so cute.
I love how they move in somewhere and within a couple of days they already have their favourite spots and have everyone running round after them!

She loves that radiator 😹

Oh what a gorgeous little piece of floof! 😍 She's so tiny, and adorable! You're so lovely and kind to take her on and take her to the vets to help her heal. Her eye is getting better isn't it?

It's possible she may have been taken away from her mother a few weeks too early, but you are where you are right now, she can't go back, and she is part of your family now.

I hope you (and she) enjoy the next 20 years together!

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She's a very lucky little kitten to have found a loving and responsible owner.

I think you were meant for each other ❤️

What a beautiful kitten

Kittens can bounce back from terrible starts in life amazingly quickly. I fostered a mum and two kittens where it looked like she was about to abandon one; he was half the size of his brother and she was not feeding or cleaning him. Once she felt safe she quickly took him back and he was fine. Always smaller than his brother but just as wild! I’m sure your little poppet with thrive from now on.

I wouldn't pay her a penny tbh. I'd try reporting her to the RSPCA, they may look into it.

I also wouldn’t be paying her , I assume the original vet bill for the poorly eye was more than the £20 .

Absolutely
Unless you have in writing "I will pay you £20 when she gets to xyz weeks" then stuff that breeder .

You have basically taken on the runt of the litter ( don't tell Penny that ) the breeder would've had to pay ££ or euthanise her .
She didn't want to do this so she had to rehome her ( you said she was the last of the litter ?)
Her Mum will most likely be bred again as unfortunately fertile cats will seek their mate/s and she'll get out somehow .

You should definitely report this woman but she might use the caveat that she didn't charge you as a get out . "I'm not selling the kitten "

Do you believe she was wormed and flea treated when she came to you ?

She's a lovely little kitten and your endeavours have pulled her round . Hope you have many years under the claw .
Buy what will your Resident Cat think of the New Boss?