Although it wasn’t planned nor in the household budget, I had to take two of the dumpster kitties into the vet this morning. Both of them last night, quite unexpectedly collapsed in front of me. They were both hot to the touch when I picked them up. I put them both in the cage, applied rubbing alcohol to their ear flaps and toe pads and watched them through the night. In the morning, it was off to the vet. My thoughts were whirling- was this calicivirus even though there was no URI? Was it FIP? After last year, I take nothing for granted with small kittens.

BK3 had the highest temp of 103.9, the other kitten 102.6. The vet feels that this is a throwback of kitty play and we are dealing with kitty bites. Kitty bites don’t often abscess because the teeth are fine as needles, but they can spike fevers and become weak from a bite. I also did not know that they have lymph nodes on their legs. Bk3’s lymph nodes are swollen whereas BK2 is not.

The kitties are home and they are isolated in a room- but I am probably going to have to put them in the main bedroom because it is hot upstairs and it is not cooling down anytime soon.

The vet will be on call all weekend and I am to call her if they start sliding downhill suddenly.

7:20 p.m. Temps are dropping- 103.4 and 102.4 I have given both kittens clavamox and graduated them to the largest dog cage we have and put that in the bedroom where it is noticeably cooler. There is even room for a Drinkwell inside their cage as well as a larger litter pan. It was a bit of a hassle bringing in the cage from the porch but well worth the effort.