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human milk for kitten

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Question
I've got a stray kitten around 10 days with eye opened, can I feed her with diluted human evapored hi-cal milk? cos I can't buy the kitten milk during mid night now.
I've given her a towel and warm pad placed medium, what else I've to do?  

Answer
Syeeda,

Diluting the evaporated milk about 1/2 and 1/2 with some water will do fine until you can get some kind of kitten milk replacer. The kitten should be drinking about 10 ml of formula for every 100 mg (4 oz) of body weight.  You should split this up into 4 feedings at about 7:00 AM, 1:00 PM, 7:00 PM, midnight.  

Watch the heating pad so the kitten does not get too hot.  Keeping the kitten warm is good, but overheating them will be problematic.

You may want to have your vet check the kitten for any obvious problems.

Best regards... Norm.