Bottle Feeding Baby Kittens

If your kitten is a preemie you will need to dropper feed it until it s strong enough to suck on the bottle.

Bottle feeding baby kittens.

Feed kittens using a safe posture. Regular human baby bottles will likely be too big but most pet stores have newborn kitten bottles and nipples as well as a commercial formula specifically designed for kittens. Never feed a kitten on her back like a human baby would eat as this can cause the kitten to inhale fluid into the lungs. You re going to need to purchase kitten formula you cannot feed kittens the milk that is in your fridge.

Never feed a kitten cow s milk or other dairy products dairy alternatives or human baby formula as this can be dangerous or even fatal to the kitten. A newborn kitten can only digest milk and more specifically the milk from a female cat. Table of contents 1 warmth and bedding 2 feeding 3 weaning 4 weight and hydration 5. Feeding the wrong sort of milk such as cow s milk can have short term and long term effects including diarrhea dehydration nutritional deficiencies and long term health problems due to poor growth.

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