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Hello and welcome to the NOVA CAT FOSTER blog! Here you get to watch our fosters grow, how we manage their various illnesses and learn excellent tips and tricks on raising your bottle baby and caring for foster kittens.
Not every story is going to have a happy ending, but we feel that everyone needs to learn just how delicate these babies really are and how much work goes into rescuing them. We hope you enjoy seeing them and learning about good kitten care. Please feel free to to email us with any questions or comments.
One of our current batches of kittens has an upper respiratory infection and will not be out in the main lobby until we get the infection under control. They currently reside in our isolation unit and still get plenty of love and attention from the staff while they recuperate from their illness. Upper respiratory infections in kittens are possibly the most frustrating illnesses to treat in my opinion. One day they are simply sneezing and the next they look like they have the plague. An upper respiratory infection (URI) can go on for weeks at a time and multiple antibiotics are used when there is a secondary bacterial infection present. Believe us! We get just as frustrated treating our babies for a URI as you are as a client when your cat has one.
The babies are receiving lots of tender loving care and medical attention. Unfortunately viruses do have to run their course, but there are things we can do to speed up the process. This includes l-lysine and anti-viral eye drops. We will have them in the general population as soon as they are healthy.