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"Sheldon" > wrote:

> Here's Jack and Jilly at about one week, just finished their eye
> dropper feeding. I rescued them as newborns in my backyard, their
> mother was too young and abandoned them. There were two others but
> they were already goners, another few hours and Jack and Jilly would
> not have made it either... was a LOT of work getting them to survive,
> they were very sick, a LOT of money too. But was well worth it, I'd
> not trade them for anything, they're priceless.
>
> http://tinypic.com/e6cei0.jpg

Looks like the one on the left needed eye treatments? :-)

We've bottle raised kittens from nearly newborn as well. Eyes still
closed... A lot of work but OH so worth it!

Sheldon, have you noted that bottle raised cats are exceptionally loving
and attached to their humans, more so than others?

Also, we always used KMR and every time ended up having to take the
babies to the vet for constipation. She always gave us "Laxatone" and a
little pea sized portion of that with each formula feeding always took
care of it. Did you run into that problem?

We've bottle raised 8 kittens total over the years. 3 orphaned litters.

Also 3 litters of baby skunks that were later turned over to wildlife
rescue after weaning. They were SO special:

http://tinypic.com/e6soc6.jpg
http://tinypic.com/e6soli.jpg

That is my little sister holding them, and this pair was about 6 weeks
old in that picture. We took them out in the back yard for exercize. And
no, they never sprayed us. We got them at less than a week old, eyes
still closed. Baby skunks are raised on KMR kitten formula.

I wish it was legal to keep them as pets in Texas. IMHO they are better
than ferrets!
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