How To Adopt A Baby Kitten

this is one of a litter of orphan kittens.they were born and never actually nursed from their mother. there's a volunteer, here, who'shelping them along by hand feeding them and they've just gotten baths and been cleanedup which is why he's all wet. but i'll show you about hand feed a baby and what else todo, he really likes this. getting really excited. okay, you can hear them suckle and how theygrasp the bottle with their feet, like that,

How To Adopt A Baby Kitten, and he's chewing on the nipple a little bit.let's get it right centered so he can suck. there we go! you can actually see the airbubbles going into the formula, there. this is special kitten milk replacement formula.and you can see his little face moving as he's nursing. and, when you see the air bubblescoming into the formula that means he's actually

getting formula out of the bottle. sometimeskittens will have a weak suckle reflex and although they're nursing they're not actuallygetting any nutrition. so you need to watch for that. after a kitten finishes nursingfrom a bottle, they'll be sort of full and kind of sleepy. so they should just lay downand have a little nap when they're done, that's a sign that they've had enough nutrition.one of the other things that you need to do with orphan kittens is stimulate them to urinateand defecate. so you take a moist towel and you rub the perineal area, their anus andtheir urethra area with a little towel to stimulate them to urinate and defecate. thisis what mom does by licking them and it's very important because they don't know howto void urine or feces on their own, so you

have to stimulate that reflex for them.