I have contacted the manufacturer and they assure me that their expired formula doesn’t go toxic, it just loses its potency. There is a formula on the market today that is having problems with toxicity according to what I have been able to find out-but it is NOT the same formula I am using. So perhaps my vet misunderstood what brand I was using.

Regardless, I have made my own Kitten Glop and am combining it with canned kitten food and some canned pumpkin to get whatever is inside these babies out. Without being graphic, when I am stimlating these little ones, I smell it coming before it arrives- it it that rank. If their stool were bright yellow, I would suspect coccidia, but it isn’t yellow. I gave them a cocktail of sorts yesterday of worming medicine and Albon. There were no crashes last night or this morning- so I will just keep on going and pray these babies survive. The little calico has some blood showing now, but it is not bright blood and there isn’t a lot of it. It could just be from the water as it can chaffe, so I have switched over to warmed mineral oil.

With the bloat belly, I wonder if this might be FIP- or the bloat could be from early malnutrition.

I belong to a group of wonderful people who write about cats and I posted to the list last night. I heard from vets and specialists from all over the globe and this gave me more ideas about what might be happening here.