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two week old kitten drinks milk from bottle and milk is always coming out its nose.

Submitted: 78 days and 20 hours ago.
Category: Cat
Value: $15
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Pet's Sex: Female
Pet's Age: 10
Type of Animal: Kitten

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This is a ten day old kitten being bottle feed.

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It is possible there is a cleft between mouth and nose causing the leaking of milk up into the nose area while nursing.

You can read about clefts here

http://www.petpeoplesplace.com/resources/articles/cats/52-hand-rearing-kittens-cleft-palate.htm

Another possibility is over feeding is causing reflux up through the nose.

The risk of fluids in the nasal area is that the kitten will inhale the fluids causing deadly aspiration pneumonia.

If this is a cleft problem your vet can show you how to tube feed until the kitten is old enough for surgery.

If its over feeding smaller meals may work.

Hope this helps you!

 



Edited by NancyH on 9/4/2009 at 8:37 PM

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Posted by NancyH 78 days and 20 hours ago.

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Just added this and don't want you to miss it on clefts

http://www.petpeoplesplace.com/resources/articles/cats/52-hand-rearing-kittens-cleft-palate.htm

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