Kitten rescued from drowning, barely breathing. What can I do?

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Family owns a farm, we found one of our cats that roam’s kitten drowning in liquid cow manure. When rescued the kitten was basically lifeless. About 2 hours ago. We got everything we could out of kittens airways, but kitten had rapid breathing and not moving we relaxed him and extended his body a bit. He can’t move at all but breathing of rapidness went down. He does meow faint every so often and we had been feeding him watered down milk every so often from a tiny baby bottle. Can’t take to vet.

Dr. Strydom, DVM · Accepted Answer

If you can't take it to a vet then there is a higher likelihood that the kitten won't survive. Based on your description it is possible that the kitten could have aspirated some fecal matter into it's lungs which will cause pneumonia. If it has pneumonia you cannot treat that at home. There is not much I can tell you to do without examining the kitten myself so I just suggest you refer to this link about how to care for an orphaned kitten. Watered down cow's milk it not recommended to feed. You need to either get kitten milk replacer or you can make homemade replacer (recipes in link). If it is suckling the bottle that is a good sign; if it is not, you really need to find a way to get it to a vet. ( https://kittenrescue.org/2017/03/raising-orphaned-kittens/ )

Kitten rescued from drowning, barely breathing. What can I do?

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