Hi everyone,
Yesterday morning, while out on a Sunday walk with my husband, we found a tiny little kitten crying by the side of a path.
After catching it, we brought it home. I gave it a wash in the sink (its paws were filthy) and noticed it has fleas and its tummy is bloated.
I've kept it in the bathroom (since I have other cats and didn't want them getting fleas) tucked up warm in a little box.
It wouldn't eat anything all day, so I called the out-of-hours vet and managed to take it in last night.
The vet examined it, weighed it, and checked its temperature and blood sugar. She then managed to get it to eat a bit of that 'a/d' wet food or something similar.
Weight-wise: it's about 1.5 lbs (704g), estimated age: 6 weeks, temperature and blood sugar were both fine.
She gave me some worming treatment, which I gave it last night around 7 pm after getting back from the vet's.
I offered it some more wet food which it ate; it even went back to the bowl for more on its own. It's used the litter tray for a wee twice, once yesterday and once this morning.
However, no poo yet (so this morning I put a bit of liquid paraffin in its wet food – one of my other cats gets constipated, so I use it sometimes), and this morning its little belly is still swollen. I was searching online during the night and saw that FIP can also cause a bloated tummy. The vet told me its general condition was good and that it's probably just worms, but I'm panicking now I've seen the info about FIP...
How long do you think it takes for the wormer to work? And for the swelling to go down?
Thanks for your help.
