-=> Quoting Lars-ake Smith to Susan Cook <=-
 SC> I am fostering a 4 week old kitten for the SPCA and I would
 SC> appreciate any advice about how to take care of her. She is eating
 SC> really well, but so far I haven't seen her poop. (I have only had
 SC> her home for an hour and a half). She is also very agressive. Any
 SC> advice would be greatly appreciated.
 LS> Perhaps one part of the problem is that the cat is so young. I think
 LS> that 4 weeks is too early for it to leave it's mother, but perhaps
 LS> it could not be arranged otherwise?
[some very good advice snipped to save bandwidth]
My niece rescued an even younger kitten last year that had been abandoned by 
its mother; some of you may remember my posts about "Peaches".
When Holly first became Peaches' adoptive mama, the poor kitten was sick and 
had a hernia...the mother had stopped feeding her because she was clearly 
going to die.  Holly nursed this half-pint bundle of fur and fleas, 
bottle-feeding her, providing a nest equipped with an electric heating pad, 
and even teaching her to use the litter box.  (This was not Holly's first 
orphaned infant kitty.)
Peaches is now a healthy, happy member of the varied menagerie at my 
brother's home.  (The hernia was fixed...and so was she, IYKWIM.)  She's an 
outdoor cat who apparently learned how to hunt from the other cats, gets 
plenty of food and pets from the family, takes no guff from cat, dog or 
anything else, and has grown nicely -- she is neither the smallest nor the 
largest of the group, and her orange-tabby coat is positively gorgeous.
While no one, including Holly, really expected Peaches to survive when she 
was first rescued, this miracle-kitten happily surprised everyone with her 
recovery and integration into a social unit that includes humans, dogs, 
ducks, chickens, horses and several other cats.  Everyone knows her turf, and 
even the klutzy-but-lovable canines respect her favorite resting places.
Walter, wluffman@usit.net    CompuServe: 74721,3464
... "One cat just leads to another." - Ernest Hemingway ___ Blue Wave/DOS 
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