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Me and my boyfriend took in a week old kitten last summer that was found in a dumpster by one of his friends.
We took him to the vet and they gave us some formula for him and a little syringe thing.
We tried to feed him with it, but couldn't get him to eat. We also tried get him to drink out of a saucer, but he just wouldn't go for it.
We ended up taking him to a cat shelter and dropping him off with one of the vetrenary nurses there. She took him into the back, and came out like five minutes later with him all wrapped up in a little blanket asleep and told us he just sucked it all up instantly out of the syringe, haha.
But we went back a couple months later to get a new kitten, and she told us he died of some sort of infection in his stomach because of how long it took him to get fed.
So, you could always take the baby kitty to a vet or a shelter, and ask them. (Just make sure it's reputable, and you should probably make sure they have a no-kill policy.)
There aren't any no-kill shelters around here, but there is a cat rescue house thing run by this cat lady. I don't know if she takes babies, though.
Would they just put him down when they got him or would they give him a chance?
It really depends. If they thought he as going to be a hassle or something, they might not even take him in.
But apart from that, they'd probably try to feed him like twice at the actual shelter, and then try to find a foster parent-volunteer type person to take him home and feed him. I'm not really sure that they'd put down a baby kitten with no history. It's usually reserved for like old, mean animals that no one adopts.
Hm... I just don't know yet. It's my classmate's cat, so the decision is really up to her.
He's just so adorable, though.
But if the mother cat gave him up... It just makes me think maybe there's a reason she gave him up.