Bottle Fed Kittens

My dd's bottle fed about 4 kittens some yrs ago. Only 2 made it. Its hard. You have to feed them pretty often, like every 2-4 hrs. My girls took turns, and luckily it was summer and they didn't have school. The 2 that made it turned out pretty good. One was an outside cat and was healthy and good, friendly. The other one we took inside, as he was sickly. He was very friendly,loving, about the best cuddler of a cat you could have. He passed away after we had surgery to fix some health problems, and he never came out of the anesthetic. He had a bunch of health problems.

I bottle fed Oz. I found him when he was ten days old. He is one of the least affectionate cats I've ever had. He's a good boy but he likes his personal space and will let you know when he wants to be pet or messed with. He's very smart and cat box trained himself, he's also full of little idiosyncrasies. For example, from about 4 weeks of age to now (he's 3) he will steal my socks and drag them around the house. He will climb up my dresser, open my sock drawer, get a sock and bring it to me. All while making pathetic little mewing sounds. He sleeps with stuffed animals. His favorite is a bright orange duck. When he is scared I can calm him down and get him to do what I need him to by showing him the duck and putting the duck where I want him to go. If I can't find him I raise my voice and say "Where's Oz?" within a minute he's by my side.

The only behavioral issue I've had with him is biting. He bites, hard. I've been told it's common with orphan cats because they don't learn that biting hurts from their litter mates. As he's grown up it's become more manageable and when I'm petting him and he goes to bite me I give him a sharp "Ack!" noise and he stops and licks me instead. In a couple of instances he's opened his mouth to bite, paused to think, and walked away from me instead.

Anyway, I could go on but as they say this thread is worthless without pics. Here's baby Oz to grown up Oz.

My Babette (aka Baby) came to me as a three week old foster kitten that had been abandoned ... I bottle fed her and snuggled her and now she is super sweet   

I will say that she has started peeing on the carpet in one particular place and we haven't figured out why but I'm sure it isn't related to being a bottle fed kitten ...

This was her when she was tiny  

My 'boys' were bottle fed from 1 week because they were found abandoned. We adopted them when they were 9 weeks, and we're eating solid food well by then. They are almost identical twins, and are now 2 1/2. Frankie is the perfect cat-- he likes to be held, and is just a sweet boy. Clarkie is needy! He thinks I'm his mother, and loves me to death! He is attached to my hip all the time! As soon as I sit down, he is on my lap! He can be flighty when others are around! He loves my husband too, but is definitely a mama's boy! I wouldn't trade them for the world!! They have helped us adjust to an empty nest, and helped heal our hearts when we had to put our older kitty down from diabetes complications. We got them shortly after saying goodbye to her, and they've kept us laughing every day!

We bottle fed 5 kittens two summers ago and it is hard work when the mom cat is not around. Luckily it was summer, but the girls had to feed them every 2-3 hours and when we did that we wrapped them in tiny blankets. It was kind of a mess because they all peed/popped on each other until they learned to go in a litter box. They were approximately 10 days old when we got them. At night we put a blanket over the cage we had them in. We only kept 2 and one is super sweet, like a dog really and the other is sweet too but more like a cat. It's a lot of work but they are so cute at that age!