This is a new one for me... need kitten help!

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Update to my new kitten story!

She pooped!!! Saints be praised! (LOL) She still has one hell of an appetite and a very loud for voice for such a small bundle of fur. But she's comfortable enough in my closed bedroom to wander around it all, jump or climb on what she can, wriggle into (and sometimes out of) tiny spaces without mom's help. She's begun to cock her head when I say her name, so I hope that means she's very intelligent. Not the least of which, she recognizes my voice as a helper and "mom".

This morning, after watching the other cats go in and out of the cat door on my bedroom door (all doors in the house have cat doors, except the bathroom. That one, they just scratch like crazy til we let them in.) Anyway, after watching the other cats, she figured out how to squeeze into the opening and out into the main house hall. I saw her, but she was gone before I could catch her. I let the bedroom door opened and it was just a few seconds later she came running back in to climb on Mama's bed. (gryn)

She has an appt on Friday for a well-kitten check... probably including worming, at her age. The other cats have pretty much accepted her... or at least, they're tolerating this little intruder. She doesn't seem to be afraid of any of them, even my two enormous toms! Casa Critter doing good, so far!

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My sister dropped off a kitten yesterday, that she found sheltering in between broken stones of a church. She teaches at the school connected to the church (catholic school), and all morning the kids and she heard the cries of a kitten. She finally called early recess and they went searching. They found this tiny black and white tuxedo had crawled into a cavity between two broken stones in the church. It's been REALLY cold here lately, and we've had snow. Kit was cold, scared, and hungry. I've rescued and rehomed dozens of cats since growing into adulthood, so I didn't think anything of taking in his poor orphan.

But she's doing a few things I've NEVER had my kittens (or cats) do... I've rescued kittens prior to being 6 weeks old... tiny, tiny kittens you hold in one palm, and I've never had this issue. This cat doesn't seem to use the cat box... and I'll be damned if I can find any "surprises" in the room.

I have her confined to my bedroom... a small room, loaded with "stuff"... but she's got a nice warm burrow in a box in my closet. I have a catbox in there, which I have placed her in to "show" it to her (like I did for everyone else!), and I have her food on the other side of the closet. (away from the catbox)

She's got one hell of an appetite. Which makes me think she's been basically starving since she left "Mom." Sis hasn't found any other littermates or the Mom anywhere around the church. But beyond (what I see as) a lack of catbox moves, I also worry because she never shuts up!!! She'll let you pick her up and cuddle a little, but then wants back down on her own. I was afraid maybe she was lonely for littermates, so I let in a couple of my more mellow cats. They all took well to each other, but it hasn't stopped her mewing. I'm sitting her wondering if the two issues are related. Is she in pain?

I tried to get in to see a vet, but the earliest I can do it is the 19th of Dec. I know that's only a week, but... "mama" in me wants to know she's okay, not harmful to my own babies (especially since I have quite a few elder queens in my brood)... but also I can't bare to have anything in pain. She doesn't squeal out when I pick her up, so I can pinpoint anywhere in particular it might hurt! But she just squawls all the time. Anyone else have an experience like this?

Thanks, you guys!