Hey, everyone. This is kitten lady, and I'm going to show you guys what I do with my orphaned kitten routine.
So the routine that you do for their care is the same every single time
and you're gonna do this in
Increments of every couple hours depending on how old they are. So Boop is about three weeks old
So I'm doing this with her about every four hours right now um, but when they're younger you need to do it more frequently
So if you have like a brand new baby, you're gonna be doing this every two hours
If they're one or two weeks old you can do this about every three [hours]. Right now, she's getting this every four hours
Um as you can see she's ready to nurse
She's trying to nurse on my fingers cuz she does associate my hands with food so she's anxious to get eating.
So let's do her care routine, okay?
So the first thing you're gonna do is get them to pee um I use tissues
I prefer this I use like a couple tissues because especially with an older kitten like this um she's gonna pee quite a bit
So to get them to pee you're just going to stimulate
Their little rear um so I'll try to show you guys so you can see what that looks like um
You're just gonna gently
rub
and Boop says 'Oh my gosh, you're making me pee on live television how rude'
But they should pee every single time that you do this
And you want to keep doing this until they've stopped peeing so you can actually like see her peeing and now she's stopped
So it's just gonna absorb the pee there, and that's it. So now she's done peeing um hopefully they will poop
At least once a day, but they don't usually poop every single time so she pooped earlier, she's not gonna poop right now um
But you know don't be alarmed if they don't poop every single time they usually poop about once a day
So that is your first step the next step is feed them
Okay, so I've got her little bottle here. This is full of kitten milk replacer, and it's nice and warm
You're gonna test it on your wrist to make sure that it's not too hot, it should be comfortably warm
and then you're gonna feed her.
So of course when I feed her the first thing I do is get her in the right posture
Sometimes I see people trying to feed a kitten on their back like a human baby like this
And that's not a safe way to feed a kitten you want to feed them with their belly down in a natural position
So we're gonna get her in a natural position
And you're gonna hold their head so that they are ready to go. Now she's a pretty eager eater
So she probably is going to like freak out and attack the bottle
So some tips are you know putting this in their mouth holding their head so that it's where you want it to be and then
Slightly slightly applying pressure so that a little bit of the formula drips out into her mouth um
You don't want to squeeze too much [cuz] you don't want her to aspirate
They can choke they can squeeze the formula down into their lungs, and that's very dangerous for them
So just a gentle gentle bit of pressure to get it going and so I'm holding her head. I'm squeezing just a little bit and
There we go. We've got [a] nice latch
And you're just gonna kind of like apply equal pressure as she's eating
They'll usually tell you when they're done
There is a nice feeding chart on my website to show you how much a kitten should be eating by age but right now
She is at three weeks old she's eating about a tablespoon
um every meal. So you can see she's got a little bit of milk on her face
And then she has a little bit of pee on her little butt. So the very very last step here
Is that you're going to clean them. I do a lot of this stuff on the go
So I really like using these biodegradable pet wipes
that's what I use
And I just kind of wipe her whole
Body down anywhere that might have gotten dirty
Um, and that's gonna keep her clean. It's important to clean you know [anytime]
they pee because they can get urine scald where their little back end gets raw from all of the urine, so
Clean her nice and good on her little backside
[you] know make sure you get the legs and everything the tail
So she stays nice and clean and then we'll get one more
Actually we'll just use this. She didn't get that much on her face
so we're just gonna wipe down her face of course you want to do it with a wet cloth if
They end up with a lot of formula on their face so that their face doesn't get dirty or crusty
But that's pretty much it so it's pretty fast you can see this whole process takes about three minutes
And then she is ready to go she just goes right back into her little warm space
goes back to sleep and that's pretty much what an orphaned kitten does for the first three or four weeks of life.
They pee, they poop, they eat, they get cleaned up, and then they hang out in their warm safe space
So that's my kitten routine, and this is Boop. Thank you for watching and good luck this kitten season.
[kissing noise]