Category: Hachitaro News

Wednesday, July 19th

Today, too, I fed milk to Hachitaro from the morning. He pees well, but didn’t poo yet. Is he constipated?

I studied about it, and it said that a three week old kitten still gets its poo taken care of by the mother cat: the mother licks the kitten and stimulates it so it wants to relieve itself. (In addition, she eats it and cleans her kid. Mother is great!) We are not mother cats so we have to pat his anus with a tissue or warmed wet cloth, or massage his lower abdomen, to make him poo after milk feeding. If it doesn’t work, we’ll have to give him an enema!

Whenever I feed him milk, I pat his tummy and give him a massage. While I was out, Chris tried a few times but didn’t have any success. Well, should we give him an enema tomorrow morning? (I heard we can make an enema with a mixture of salad oil and water in an injector. But I haven’t studied the proportions and quantity.)

Today’s reaction to Hachitaro by Kyoku and Kuro
Kyoku still takes the long way around him. Kuro is getting closer? He is less threatening to Hachitaro.

His weight today – 336g
–YS, 19 July 2006

19 July 2006