I found a little kitten, please Fediverse guide me on how to handle him, what to feed him, etc :ablobcatcry:

@mur2501 Whoa, that looks to be a very young one. Is momma cat nowhere to be found?
Can try kitty milk (important that it's lactose free) or a bit of meat. Though if it's so young, I'm not sure it's learned to eat properly yet. Bits of cooked chicken could work.

@trinsec
I only have buffalo milk with me, no chicken or meat :ablobcatheartbroken:

@mur2501 Buffalo milk is probably not lactose free. A quick search reveals it's even worse than cow milk.

Bit of diluted coffee milk can work. Dilute the milk otherwise if it needs something now. Water can also work but it does need nutrients.

Go to a store fast and buy some kitten milk and food then you know for sure it's food suitable for tiny kitties.

Basically, younger than 5-6 weeks, they do need milk. After 4 weeks they can have some meat in tiny bits. They need to feed multiple times a day because their stomach is so tiny.

@trinsec
I live in an Indian town where there are no pet shops

@mur2501 Okay, arrange some lactose-free milk somewhere, stuff that even humans take? That's important. Diluted coffee milk would be an easy one, unless you don't have coffee milk in India?

And don't you have any meat at all in the house? Can't you buy any? Though at this point the milk seems more important if it's indeed such a young kitten.

If you can't get anything at all, dilute the buffalo milk bigtime with some (lukewarm) water.

@trinsec
No coffee milk here also no raw chicken in the house. It's dark night

@mur2501 Oh and I'd advise against raw chicken. Boil it first. Don't give it bones. Give it small strips of boiled chicken flesh.

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