How To Care For Newborn Kitten. Contact veterinarians and no-kill shelters to see if they have a nursing mother cat to adopt the kittens or experienced volunteers available to offer advice or even help bottle feed the kittens. This is why we are going to explain what you need to know to look after a kitten and how to take care of kittens.
Newborn kittens without a mother to provide milk should be fed a kitten milk replacer. It is essential that kittens receive colostrum to protect them against disease. Neonatal kittens need to be fed on a regular basis day and night.
As a rule of thumb for every ounce of kitten body weight he or she needs 8 ccs of formula.
Dehydration shock and death can result from warming too quickly. These kittens should be bottle-fed using kitten milk replacer or. Neonatal kittens need to be fed on a regular basis day and night. Taking care of kittens is not a straightforward job.