I just found two 3 week old kittens...

Question

Just found these two kittens , their eyes are already opened but no teeth yet, ive been giving them KMR from an eyedropper and ive been able to get them to pee but haven't gotten them to expel any excrement yet, its been 24 hours now and they are eating very well...any help or suggestions would be appreciated.

Answer 1

this information will tell you what to do.

The kitten should be fed every 2 hours for the first 2 weeks of life, 4 hours for the next two weeks. For the two weeks following, the kitten should be fed every 6 hours, along with the kitten having access to a small bowl of moist canned food. At the end of the last two weeks, your kitten will be about 6 weeks old, and should be fully weaned onto the canned food.  At 8 weeks of age, dry, hard food may be introduced and a combination of both should be fed until 10-12 weeks of age.  At 12 weeks of age, you can just feed the kitten dry food, as this will help strengthen the teeth and keep them healthy.

Now, during this infant stage, there are a few things you will need to do.  The mother cat stimulated the kitten to urinate and defecate by l*****g the anal area.  You are going to have to do this... stimulate it by taking a warm damp cloth or baby wipe and gently rubbing the anal area.  This will cause the baby to defecate and urinate.  The defecation of a newborn kitten should be very soft, and yellowish brown.  If the defecation is simply liquid, or very firm, a veterinary visit would be needed as liquid would indicate diarrhoea, which could be devastating to a kitten this small causing severe dehydration, and firm stool would indicate constipation, which could cause an intestinal rupture or obstruction.

The kitten will need to be kept very warm. Keep the kitten in a box with some soft blankets.  Under the box, set a heating pad on "low" setting, and put a towel over the heating pad, right under the box.  This will prevent any burning. If you don't have a heating pad, fill up some soda bottles with hot water, wrap in hand towels, and place them throughout the perimeter of the box. Usually two 2-soda bottles will do it.

The kitten’s eyes will not open until around 10 days of age, and the first tooth should show up around this time as well.  

It is very hard to hand raise a kitten, but definitely not impossible.  As long as you make sure you keep it warm, stimulate it to go "potty" and feed it accordingly, you should have no problems, unless the kitten is ill.  

Answer 2

Some of my babies don't poo every time I stimulate them but it is important that they do go daily.  It may help to put them under the faucet and stimulate that way, I know it may be gross but this usually works.  It is vital that they go or they can die.  At the age they are it is not difficult to raise them unless they are ill but you just have to be patient.  They do sell little bottles that are easier than an eyedropper.  My little guy turned 3 weeks today and I got him (when someone found him) the day he was born.  Hes just starting to have his teeth pop through:)