Originally Posted by SavannahKitten

2.5 weeks ago we had a tiny little kitten born, seriously underweight. She weighed in at 74g at birth and spent the first two weeks putting on weight bit by bit until she weighed 98g. Then her mum got ill and started pooing everywhere - sometimes pooing on the kittens. I took them all away and put them with another mother. They all took a bit of a dip in weight, but the two bigger ones have now rallyed and are fine.. but little one has gone from 98g down to 82g and it's awful to see her - she's all skin and bone and big eyes.

Putting her back with mum is not an option - mum is quite ill and is being treated with steroids for IBS/Chrones disease.

Little one is fighting fit - she crawls over the kittens for milk, will bury her head in and get stuck in there, will suckle, doesn't have a cleft palette, isn't interested in top up bottles (acts 'full').

The vet's opinion is that it might be something seriously wrong with the liver, BUT it could also just be the way she is - the classic runt of the litter.

Do kitties ever come back from this sort of weight loss?!