What are the signs of a healthy kitten?
If you were presented with a litter of fluffy kittens, all huddled together around their mother, it would be an almost impossible task to choose one over another. All kittens are charming and adorable little creatures. However, as with all young animals, kittens are weak and vulnerable, and taking home a sickly kitten could result in a great deal of heartbreak. My first cat Jasmine was given to me by husband as a Christmas present, the first year we were married. She had been abandoned along with her brothers and sisters at what I believe now must have been around 5 weeks old. In other words she had been taken away from her mother far too early. Needless to say I fell in love with her the moment I set eyes on her, but I must be honest there were moments over those first two weeks of owning her that we almost lost her. I remember sitting up with her, wrapped in a blanket, feeding her from a pipette and taking advice from my veterinary over the phone during those early days of her