What to do if you picked up a kitten on the street?

With the onset of cold weather, a lot of homeless kittens appear, because in the summer, cats are especially prolific. Plus, many people take kittens for the summer to “play around”, and then throw them away. And sometimes it is impossible to pass by a defenseless lump crying in the cold. What to do if you picked up a kitten on the street?

In the photo: a homeless kitten. Photo: flickr.com

Action plan for people who picked up a kitten on the street

If you don’t have other animals, you can safely take the kitten home and solve problems as they arise.
If you have other animals at homeespecially cats are worth considering. I am not saying that kittens should not be picked up (it should, they should not be left on the street), but it is necessary to approach the issue wisely.
Don’t forget about quarantine. If you pick up a kitten and bring it into the house where your cat lives, this can be fraught with unpleasant consequences for your pet, because 70% of outdoor kittens are latent virus carriers. On the street, they may look completely healthy, but when you bring them home and improve your living conditions, all hidden diseases will appear. These can be such viral diseases as chlamydia, leukopenia, calcivirosis, and these diseases are very dangerous. If your cat is vaccinated, this reduces the risk of infection, but it still exists. If your cat is not vaccinated, be sure to vaccinate her.
Find a placewhere the kitten can live during the quarantine period without meeting your cat. The quarantine period is 21 days.
Do not forget that there are diseases such as microsporia and dermatophytosis. As soon as you have picked up a kitten, before any treatments and bathing, take him to the vet. There, the kitten will be examined and lumdiagnostics will be carried out. If the lumdiagnosis is negative, everything is fine, if it is positive, a scraping is done for fungal elements in order to know for sure whether the kitten has microsporia. Even if there is, do not be alarmed – she is now well treated.
Treat the kitten from fleas and helminths.
Vaccinate kitten.
Only after quarantine, deworming and two-stage vaccination can introduce the kitten to your cat.
If you have vaccinated your cat after you adopted a kitten, then at least 14 days after vaccination must pass before meeting a new tenant, since the cat’s immunity is weakened after vaccination.