| Paw Colors | Points |
|---|---|
| Grey | 0-49 |
| Red | 50-149 |
| Orange | 150-299 |
| Green | 300-599 |
| Magenta | 600-1499 |
| Purple | 1500-4999 |
| Blue | 5000-9999 |
| Brown | 10000-24999 |
| Black | 25000+ |
My aunt came to my door the other day with a sick kitten, she said she found it in an old horse barn and it was the only one alive, from what I can tell the horses trampled all the others. It’s were leaking pretty bad and I could tell from the yellow puss that they were infected. I boiled a mixture of water and light salt and used cotten balls to clean each eye. My other aunt brought some ointment she uses on infants eyes in the hospital she works at and I tried that, it seems to work well and the problem is almost gone, but I fear the kitten might have feline herpes.
Any way, the cat is black with streaks of gold in it’s fur. I know thats not much of a description but I can’t get a hold of a camara to take it’s picture. The tips of it’s ears come to a point, I don’t know if that will help identify it.
I can’t afford to take the kitten to a vet but am working on putting the money together so I can bring it in, I’ve decided to keep the kitten because it clings to my shirt, or perches on my shoulder, and gets angry when I set him down.
What else would help you identify my kitten until I can get pictures up? One of my other aunts female cats has been nursing the kitten, is this ok?
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Besides bonding, the other cats will help provide necessary lessons such as grooming, potty training, and socialization skills for getting along with other animals including cats and people. If you don\\\’t already have any cats, it would be best to leave the kitten at your aunt\\\’s for at least eight weeks, but twelve would be better.
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There\\\’s no way to know what breeds comprise your cat without a dna test (or the presence of pedigree papers, which a stray will obviously not have). But like Cedar said, it\\\’s likely he\\\’she is just a mixed breed. Kudos to you for taking the little guy in!! Good luck!!
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For an approximation of breeds in your kitten, go to the link below for breed descriptions and pictures. Other female cats nursing your kitten are fine, and in fact will help in bonding.
Source Link: Cat Fanciers Association
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I will be patiently waiting for those pictures but I think I already have a slight idea of what your cat may be just from where your aunt found the cat. Since your cat was found in a barn, it was probably the kitten of a stray or feral cat (stray is a tamed cat that now lives on the street, feral is wild). Feral cats breed in large numbers quickly, which leads to cats mixing up their breeds. If your cat came from ferals then because of this it is certainly a mix of breeds, like most cats. Almost every cat owner I know has a mixed breeds cats.
If your cats parents were strays it could mean that they originally came from breeders, In which their breeds would be pure. Pure bred cats are generally more expensive and are rarely seen as strays, so the chances of your cat coming from a pure bred familly are very, very slim. Strays are usually spayed or neutured before ending up in the streets anyways.
I hope this helps, give me a plus if it does :).
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take him to the vet right now it could infect some of the things on the inside of him or her and kill it but the reason i think why it has puss in its eye was because some straw or hay could of gotten in there and that could be fatel or it could mean the kitten would have to get the eyes taken out and becareful when your treatting it one mistake and it will have to go back to the vet but blind cats are still cats and you still need to love them thats all bye
Source Link: be careful
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If you suspect that the kitten has a herpes infection in his/her eye, (the vet suspected that my kitten may has the infection, so we just got the medicine). See if you can get ahold of L-Lysine HCI Nutritional supplement,it is what our vet gave us for a possible infection. Also call a few vets in your area see if there is a sliding scale? Also call local shelters in your area they may know resources that could help financially.
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