🚿🍼 How to Safely Bathe a Neonatal Kitten if necessary. I recently came across a rehab video where someone was bathing a kitten and got water in her ears—more than once 😬 It made me cringe and realize how important it is to show people how to do it safely. So here’s my start-to-finish guide on how to bathe a tiny kitten the right way 💧 🐾 Always check the water with your elbow — it should be warm, not hot or cold. 🐾 Never get water in the kitten’s ears, nose, eyes, or mouth — ear infections

Poor little fluey, snotty Sally! 🤧 She is a very lucky girl, but we’re not sure she feels it yet. 😵‍💫 From her second feed in care, her routine is a two minute cuddle in a steam tent, including a warm face wash, followed by a frantic bottle feeding session, where it hasn’t yet dawned on her that after a steam session she CAN drink her milk. She eventually settles, fills her tummy, then has another snuggle and is back to bed. Her stress over not being able to suck and breath at the same time w

Neonatal kittens under 3 weeks aren’t able to eliminate without stimulation, but once they are between 3-4 weeks old you can introduce a low pan of nonclumping litter (vitally important that it’s nonclumping so that when they try to eat it, because they will try to eat it, it doesn’t clump in their tummies) and they’ll start going to that. Now not all will go there so sometimes you have to watch for the signs (like running near a wall looking for a spot or even the sitting in one spot crying… th

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