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On our way back from hiking at the lake last night I missed the exit and took a different highway home. Halfway back I see what looks like roadkill on the center line. Except as we get near it I realize this roadkill is laying on it's stomach with it's head up. I figured by the time I went back to pick it up it would be a smashed body with cars constantly going by at 55-65mph but decided to try it. I pulled up next to it and the "roadkill" comes running over to hide under my truck. So I now have a scraped up, bloody, not old enough to be weaned kitten.

The vet said she's suprisingly healthy considering what she went through. Her head is all scraped up with the side of her face swollen along with ear mites and an eye infection so with my new kitten now I've got 3 medications and a container of kitten milk replacer that she doesn't really want to eat. I had better luck giving her some canned tuna. I'm not sure whether we want to label this kitten as lucky for still being alive or unlucky for getting stuck in the middle of the road.

Nice rescue dood! It's peopel like you who make this world better. Are you keeping him/her?

lil of both, unlucky for being in the road, lucky you drove along.

Nice one Sham , you deserve a medal . Do you believe in Fate . Wrong highway and all ?????????

Garry

Good save sham! /:'

Think of it as karmas reward to you. Some of the best friends in the world arrive under such circumstances. Probably my best friend in the world is a little black and white fluffy thing who I adopted from a friend who could no longer keep her. She came to me willingly and Ive known her since she was a kitten. Cats choose their owners

Tip, mash goats milk and kitten food up together, and dont use too much in the way of dry food.

Purrrrr.

Awww look at kitty!! I am so glad you found her, bet she is too!

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Before you criticize someone walk a mile in their shoes. That way you're a mile away and you have their shoes.

Kitten has no appetite. No matter what I try to feed her and no matter how long she goes without food she doesn't cry or attempt to eat. She licks less than 1cc of formula and then goes back to sleep. I forced a bunch of formula down her last night and she was more active but she won't eat at all today. It takes forever to get anything down her and she just keeps trying to wander off then goes to sleep. She cries for attention but not food.

Might be worth getting a vet to give her a little shot of dexadreson steriod, peps most animals up no end after such traumatic times,sometimes too cats and kittens weak, and on the verge of dehydration will seriously benefit from being on a drip of hartmanns solution overnight.

Except I'd have to take her to an emergency vet until Monday and I'm broke. My aunt covered most of the $64 my little roadkill already cost and I'm paying a week late for my martial arts class. Kitten was getting extremely lethargic and I was getting nowhere trying to feed her from a tiny dropper so a bit extreme force feeding but I filled her little container with formula grabbed her head and shoved her into it up over her mouth while trying to keep her nose out of it. She didn't have a choice but to sit there until she started drinking. She wandered around a little after that, slept for a few hours, and woke up meowing for more. She drank most of it by herself the next time and is sitting on the couch making little mewing sounds that are more like squeaks. Hopefully now she'll have the energy to keep eating without me having to force it down her.

Roadkill has gained a new name of "meow" because it started mewing at 3 am this morning and hasn't shut up since. Make it stop! At least in between the noise she ate 1/4th cup of formula and 1/8th of a 3oz can of cat food. The puppy keeps running in to see what's wrong and then just stares while she meows up at her. My cat, Carmel, started in yowling at 7am to express her dislike for invading her house and ruining her silence and keeps going over to hiss at the kitten in annoyance. It is not quiet here today.

It is not quiet here today.

At least its doing something!! As i was reading your earlier posts, I half expected her not to make it this far when you said all she wanted to do was sleep, as that's an indicator/byproduct of head trauma/brain injury.

Keep up the great work!

My aunt also thought after all it had been through it was just ready to give up but it seems to be recovering now. However I'm not ruling out brain damage. She is a very odd little cat. There's nothing real specific that she does and she seems capable of surviving so long as she keeps eating but she doesn't quite act normal. Sort of obsessive compulsive I guess. She starts doing something or walking across the room in a certain pattern and doesn't stop for hours. She also will only eat if sitting in this specific spot on the table, facing the same direction, and I set the dish directly under her head. Otherwise she wanders around meowing, falls over or into the food, and doesn't manage to eat anything. Course aside from the scrapes there is a large rock indent in the top of her head so it wouldn't really be surprising if she comes out of this a little abnormal.

Hey , its not all bad though, sounds like a lot to cope with but cats heal in a way that humans never do, one of my cats chuckie, was hit my a car when at a not dissimilar age, and little by little, year on year hes becoming more normal, and aside occassionally from staring at a blank wall, meowing for no apparent reason once in a while, hes pretty much a normal cat now. Its taken 4 years of care, but hes with us in spirit now as well as body, and he's one of the most loving cats ive ever met. Keep the nutrition high, and they often come around. Sounds like your kitten is in safe hands to me.

So Squeak(it's an improvement over roadkill and all she did for 3 days straight) is now eating nearly a full 3oz can a day plus she tried out some dry today. She's escaped from her pen 3 times so far and is attacking the back of the couch now cause I got tired of putting her away over and over. The only problem we have is that she's not getting the concept of litterbox training. I've probably taught dozen of kittens to use the litterbox and normally all I have to do is stick them in it, scratch their feet around, and possibly move some cat waste into the box for them to sniff. Squeak prefers to use towels so now I have 4 towels covered in cat poop to wash.

Hahaha, the parallels never cease. I cant get chucky to crap in kitty litter for love nor money, he craps outside except for when he leaves me a little... er rephrase that, bloody enormous surprise in the bath that would do a dog the size of a labrador proud

Roadkill cats and kitty litter. For gods sake, dont let him in the bathroom

Sounds like he's mending nicely.

Litterbox training attempt 100:
I waited around until Squeak had been playing for 2hours without going potty then placed her in the litterbox and scratched her feet around. She starts to dig a hole. Then gets distracted by the shifting litter, attacks it, and begins to eat large amounts of it. I interrupt her to scratch her feet again. This time we make it to squatting before being distracted and trying to eat the litter. Finally there is kitten waste in a hole in the litter. Now she wants to bury it. She manages to shift all 2" of litter in a normal sized box into 5 piles around her waste without covering it. I grab her feet and help her put the litter in the correct spot. She sniffs it, seems satisfied that it's taken care of, and then procedes to pee on the same spot. Now that needs to be buried. 20mins later I distracted her from her attempts by throwing a ball of paper across the floor. We do this 3-5times a day and she's not getting any better at it. At night she just poops and pees on the vinyl under her pen without attempting to use the litterbox. At least we've managed to avoid any accidents outside the pen for now.

Finally photobucket agrees to load my pics. So kitten pictures are here: http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v244/aqh88/kitten/
Some of the first week pics are of a scraped up slightly bloody kitten. If all you want to see are cute almost healed kitten pictures try these:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v244/aqh88/kitten/DSC00677.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v244/aqh88/kitten/DSC00664.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v244/aqh88/kitten/DSC00681.jpg

aww I'm glad I finally looked in on this thread (with the topic I was honestly scared!) Glad I didn't look in earlier I don't think I could have handled it after what happened to Vegemite.

Dunno about all animals but when we got Meowface McPurrakitty (Koala) she tended to be a bit slow for the first week about where her food was and what she was supposed to do with it. I know it was different (hills science diet kitten food) from what she was getting (generic adult catfood and raw meat for a 8 week old kitty ) but I didnt think I'd have to push her head in the bowl when I knew she was already hungry! Anyway...seems young ones have a bit of a time getting used to new places when theres a sudden change. I'd think more so with something as traumatic as what yours went through. Vegemite of course knew everything right from the word go, but she was older.

I think squeak is a great name. Vegemite tended to bark at bugs which made her a cog (cat dog) Koala either attacks or runs away from them.

Good luck on the litter training. I've been lucky I've not had to go through that. Vegemite was perfect with it. Koala we were scared was...eermm blocked up? at first cause she'd go into the box, dig around a bit then MEOOOOOWWWWWW MMEEEEOOOOWWWWW MMERRRREEEOOOWWW like she was in pain then run off without it looking like she'd done anything.
Of course I think the first night we had her she tried to sleep in it .

Very glad you made the rescue

^_^

Well no more pictures cause Squeak broke my mom's digital camera. I set it way up high on a book shelf while I was gone for the day only to find it in the middle of the livingroom floor that evening. It won't do anything when I press the power button despite messing with the battery and such. Squeak is one very expensive little kitten.