[~kitteh.hoardere...]

I need to see cat pictures to work effectively.

You should have that written into your contract!!

[la di dah]

Well Nimbus has been thoroughly adopted by Grue, who washes him and sits on him and alternates affection with nom nom noming on him, but always letting him go if he cries. He's also always first into the food bowl and she sits and watches.

But he's the laziest, most lethargic kitten I've EVER seen. We bathed him, de-flea-ed him and picked off literally about 40 fleas. Advantage, etc. was applied. He's still slack and lazy and mostly wants to sleep. He plays hardly at all. And he's barely grown, he's definitely not growing at the rate of Roswelle's babies. He's going to the vet tomorrow.

Wish us luck, everyone.

I've never had such an unplayful kitten.

We're thinking of trying changing his food, the Advantage kitten (which worked SO well on Grue and Roswelle and all the babies, they grew like crazy) seems to upset his tummy. Should we try the Purina kitten? I've heard that's easier on their stomachs sometimes?

He's very sweet and just wants to sleep next to or on somebody. But he doesn't do anything besides sleep and eat and its kind of weirding us out.

[*Spikey*]

He's all white isn't he? Get the vet to check his hearing. He may be deaf. Which is not really a problem for an indoor cat, but could explain the "not noticing" stuff and what comes across as lethargy.

[la di dah]

He seems to hear me when I call him. His ears move a lot. He likes to hide under the blankets but leave one ear out.

He just doesn't interact like Grue. I put it down to him being just very chilled out compared to Miss Twitch, but he's not chubbing up and he's all bones and dozing off all the time.

He has been wormed. And we are taking him to a vet tomorrow.

We kept waiting for him to perk up and be playful and stuff. By this age the fosters did sleep and stuff but they played a lot and did things and crawled into places they shouldn't and so on.

My cat I grew up with that lives with my parent, my sister said "Hydrox does more than Nimbus does, you know that, right?" Hydrox is 16 years old. Admittedly some of what he does is about being a cocksure little jerk, but yeah.

I feel so stupid saying "my cat never does anything naughty and just sleeps on his blanket or eats or uses the box like a perfect gentleman - it's breaking my heart!!!"

This post has been edited by la di dah: 08/05/2012, 09:38 PM

[littlesmooch]

Let us know how you go with the vet today.

[Cacti]

What did the vet say, la di dah? Is the little man all right?

[la di dah]

He's eating, weeing, and pooping, so to get to our regular vet (who are great) we are going tomorrow. He's stable. Just sorta weird. My husband is really worried about him.

Another one of the litter has apparently been sickly and I'm waiting to hear from the rescue what it was it had. I am rather concerned. I picked Nimbus because he was calm and happy to be held but not trembly or jittery or as bouncy as some of the others, he and the runtiest one just wanted to be held, not run around and tear up the rescue lady's kitchen with the other.

Its him and the runt who are sick. I feel like I sort of am responsible for not picking the liveliest and bounciest of them, but he was so sweet. And I guess its not like he would be better off, he gets more individual attention here.

Grue is mad because we washed Nimbus again tonight, (he got poop on his feet) and she was running around and glaring around all Free The Bathtub 1 and glowering on his behalf. Then she tried to cuddle him and give us a dirty look at the same time.

[la di dah]

Update, for those odd cat people like me:

Going TOMORROW because the rescue got back with me and they want him to go to their vet not our vet which is fair enough but I can't walk from this suburb to that one.

And he's stable, he looks the way he has all month.

But in my touching base with the rescue lady I asked about whether the runt had recovered (hoping to pick up ideas for Nimbus, maybe its antibiotics, maybe its something simple, or a vitamin supplement...) and it turns out she's actually been at vet's recommendation put to sleep from an undiagnosed failure to thrive generalized badness thing.

And she wasn't MUCH smaller than Nimbus she was just the runtiEST and he 2nd smallest.

And I'm to feed him nothing but boiled chicken today to see if its gentler on his digestion.

I wasn't actually all that worried before I thought he'd need the kitty equivalent of an Ensure shake everyday or something.

He's stable, that's good, right? If he's just feeble and small I don't think I'm going to put him down for that, as long as he doesn't seem to be in pain, I'll just have a shabby cat and a stupid cat, that's okay, right? Today he ate his chicken and then camped in the track of our balcony sliding door letting Grue slide him back and forth.

Grue messes with him but they spend most of the day curled up together.

[Lilura]

OH LDD, how sad about Nimbus' litter mate...

If he is otherwise healthy, and you are happy to have a tiny kitten, then no reason to put him down?

Hopefully he will perk up with some extra-fulling food.

Let us know how the little puff-ball is going

[la di dah]

Yeah, the way he eats and cuddles, unless he starts being unable to stand/use the box/toddle around like he's doing, we're going to keep him on. We do call him The Pet Rock, ("how's the pet rock?") which sounds terrible, but he seems happy enough, he just doesn't DO anything.

Actually today I took up the kitten kibble away from him and fed him only very boiled bits of chicken breast, and I think maybe he was a bit better today, no runs. So maybe he just needs special food for awhile.

If it turns out I've just been feeding him the wrong kitten kibble this whole time, I'm going to kick my own ass.