"Bottle Babies" have you bottle fed any kittens..

My brother had a stray cat come to his house after a few weeks and asking around no one claiming it they found it a home .After about three days they heard meowing under their house and found two young kittens the people that took the mother would not take them .I agreed to take them try raise them I did and since at the time I could not have a cat I found them new homes .

I had to bottle feed one of my cats because the person I obtained the kitten from, wanted it gone at four weeks of age. So she was bottle fed until she turned 7 weeks old. The second time I had to bottle feed, was when one of my cats abandoned one of her litters, unfortunatly all of the kittens passed...

I used to bottle feed my puppies. My boxer dog had puppies twice and each time there are 11 of them and so not all of them get a good chance for drinking her milk naturally. I used to wake up at about 3am because I leave home for work at 6am. Before going to work I gave them each a bottle feed. Another one when I come back and an other one before I go to sleep. It's a lot of work! Feeding 33 bottles a day and going to work! But I did it for the weaker of the pups, I did not want they to die.....of hunger!

Yes I have bottle fed kittens before. Many infact and other animals too. It always seems that we had strays we adopted growing up and many had ailments or too small. One time my brother found 2 kitten at the bottom of a sewer drainage, we got about 5 other kids involved and some adults too all ages ranging from 8-63. They had to take the metal covers and make a human ladder out of me, and a brother so we could reach them. They were in horrible shape, fleas, ticks, horribly thin and sneezing (it was aroun 45 degrees at that point) We took them home, I bathed both of them, the one I fell in love with wa white with blue eyes, but one had a infection in it so I had to take care of that. I do not think she ever had full control of that eye. Any way I fed them can milk, thinned out with water, a little molasas, and what ever I could think to put in there to make it taste like mommy milk. I got the right combo down, but each kitten had it's own formula. Had them for ever, still miss them.

yes i actually have. when i was about 10, me and my family came back really late from a trip we had taken over the weekend. my dad had gone out to the barn to check on the hogs and he comes back in bearng a kitten not even a day old! there was no mother or other litter mates in sight plus the kitten was makeing a dangerous progress to the hog pens (which if you know anything about pigs, they will eat anything.) well without a mother we knew we had to feed it. we had a syringe and we filled it up with warm milk and fed the babe until the moring when we could properly buy a small small bottle and formula. that night the kitten which we christened as Sammy (not knowing whether girl or boy yet, turned out boy on a later date) slept in my room. i kept him wrapped up by my chest, my heart, knowing thats what would keep the kitten felling safe, becuz as a baby nurses or sleeps with the mother, that kinda acts like a lullaby in a way. the morning came, items were purchased and in the living room, my dad took and emptied one of our toy boxes, filled it with comfy materials blankets towels and such and then fixed a heat lamp to keep the babe warm. for feeding times, which if i remember right, were about 3-5 hours apart, we wrapped him up and in a seperate clothe wrpped up the bottle to giv the imitation of a mothers belly. it was funny when he blew bubbles. :) but Sammy grew up healthy (but a Very odd child lol) he had long smooth black fur, white boots and a white moustase! it was funny looking, especially reversed in the bathroom mirror. sammy would always jump from the floor to the top of the shower and sit up there. sometimes if he felt like it, he would jump from shower to cabiant then to a alcove high above the sink. he was a house cat for a year or two, but ended up outside when he territorially marked my moms leg lol. (peed) then half a year later he became jealous of a litter of kittens that had just been born, and we havent seen him since. now the litter that was born they lost their mother shortly after they turned a month or two old. but we didnt bottle feed them. we started with dishes of milk instead. it was amusing, they slurped it and would dunk thier heads in very messy and made them look like huge eared wet bats lol. you might notice though, since your stray had lost the mother early that it might try and nurse on something such as the bathroom rug. thats what 2 of the 4 kittens did from above.

Yes I have bottle fed kittens before there is a special powedered kitty formula. The first time i bottle fed a kitten was after my cat abandoned her first kitten. It was alot of work like having a newborn but I enjoyed it he grew into a healthy kitty and was with us for six years till a rattle snake took his life. I also raised another litter and allof them grew to be healthy adults. It seemed to me that if you bottle feed any animal you form a special bond. Even though its alot of work if the situation came up to where I had to again i would do it in a heart beat.

Yes, as a former breeder of persian cats, I have done some bottle feeding. Most were just supplimenting mom's milk, as I never had a mom that wouldn't nurse. I did have two kittens that for some reason or another totally refused to nurse from their moms, although the moms tried hard to get them too. I totally bottle fed both of them from the time they were born until mom weaned the others in their litters. In both cases, I would feed them and then put them back in with their mom who would then clean them and take over the rest of their care. One of those kittens was actually purring at the age of 4 days when I would do this. After he would finish eating, I would place him on my shoulder and rub him and I could hear his little motor running. I still have this cat, and he is the sweetest cat I've ever owned. I also showed him. He became the best red persian in the nation the year that I showed him as an adult. :-) The other kitten, I learned later, had a flat chest, which may have been part of her problem. My daughter took this kitten and also still has her. She is also a super sweet cat. In fact every kitten that I've had to give a bottle to has turned out to have a super sweet personality. I believe it was because of the extra human contact and the loving act of being cared and fed for by a human as a baby that greatly contributed to it.

I have fed kittens by bottle but mine never survived. The vets said that all the ones I had rescued were to little and there was something wrong with them. Most of them were days old. Now two of my cats were about 5 weeks old and we taught them to drink milk out of a bowl. They are very healthy and very spoiled now.

Well we didn't have bottles so we had to use eyedroppers for our two kittens we got. After about four days they were old enough to lap out of the saucer. We had gotten two kittens free from a Vet of all things. They said they were 8 weeks old, on solid food, and litter trained. Yeah right. My sister took both kittens because she could tell they weren't that old and at least we would know how to take care of them unlike someone who never had a cat. So we worked with them. Feeding them with the dropper and then with the saucer. They finally got to canned food and then dry. They are now very full sized and full of mischief. One, Tabby, does have allergies but other then that they are both very healthy.

As a volunteer foster parent for the local animal shelter I have had to raise and bottle feed many litters of kittens that either someone dropped off at to young of age, they were taken from an abusive home because the owner killed the mother, or they had been abandoned by the mother. I have been successful with bottle feeding them with the exception of two that had to be humanely euthanized, because like all litters of kittens or adult cats for that matter that I foster I take them all to my vet to get a thorough examination. Well two of the kittens that had come from an abusive home were crying so much because their previous owner had broken a couple ribs along with their backs and they had some internal bleeding. There wasn't much the vet could do for them. It was the hardest decision I ever had to make, but I think it was the right one. Other than that I enjoy bottle feeding baby animals it is a great stress reliever for me.

i used to feed my dog when it came to my house

Yes I find it very sad.

I've retorted to bottle feeding abandoned kittens since I was a pretty young girl. I've had success stories where I've gotten the kitten to live and go on to live a very happy healthy life, and I've had disappointments where I've lost a kitten or two because they just weren't feeding like they should have been.

Yes, I have bottle-fed a kitten that I got at the same time as my talkative, friendly cat Edward, and that kitten is now twice the size of my cat, healthy and loving. One of my oldest friends has the cat now. Even though, Stone, as we named him, was old enough to leave his mother, was eating regular kitten food before we took him, Stone just didn't want to eat when we got him home, so I used an eyedropper with kitten formula, and every couple of hours, would feed him with it until he was full for the time being.