4 day old kitten forgot how to nurse
A stray cat has given birth to six kittens under my porch. It's an unsavory place for unprotected kittens. So we brought the mom and her babies into our home. For the first day and a half, all was well. Then one of the calico kittens seemed to lose energy and stopped nursing. The other kittens are fine. But the little calico would fight for her place and then not nurse. We have tried a medicine dropped and the hertz nursing bottle. We have gotten replacement formula into her, but she isn't nursing or swollowing on her own, or moving. She lays flat on her side. Under her neck it is slightly swollen and dark. I don't have the money for a vet and I don't want to just give up.