Kitten Sam Day 4 Update - with Photos of Her and Ashley Playing

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14. Try mixing some L-Lysine in with the food

It's good for respiratory support and avoiding upper resp. infections. For an adult cat, the suggested dose would be 500 mg per day when having a URI and then 250 mg a day for maintenance. Not sure about a kitten. Can you weigh her somehow? Maybe weigh a box/bed and then leave it on the scale and weigh again with her in it. Figuring the adult doses are for a cat that's 10-15 lb.

What I do for my two rescue fur-babies is keep a bottle with 500-mg capsules here. Open the capsule and then try to split it between the two them, mixed in with their canned food.

Do some research on feline herpes. One of the effects is recurrent URIs. One of our two had a URI when we first got her and so we started them both on L-Lysine. She turned out to be allergic to fish (!!) and the other seems to have hayfever flareups around the same time my boyfriend does, so we've kept them on L-Lysine.

Sam and Ashley are so cute together!!

EDIT: Steam from hot shower running for about 5-10 minutes at a time might help her breathing a bit, too, if she's wheezing.