Just caught a stray kitten, vet at 5 PM, any advice

[Doc7]

Anyone want to hazard a guess how old she is? Hoping she is socializable. She has been hanging around our property (borders hundreds of acres of woods) and under our cars for several days, meowing very loudly for food. We already have a 10 year old cat and will have to introduce - I believe I will learn that at her age some of the cat communicable diseases are still not testable until older so she will have to stay separated for a while. Our plan is to keep in wife’s work from home office, so she’ll get several hours of human contact per day. Can see some blood at her mouth, not sure if that was caused when she was caught in this crate. These are things I am going to ask about but presumably vet knows more than I do ... and probably does as well. - deworming? - flea/tick treatment (someone said Revolution?) - ear checks - rabies vaccines - distemper FIV / leukemia / feline aids - anything she can spread to my cat (which has been to a vet probably once ever) I feed Wellness food (costs more to feed cat than my children!)

 

[Doc7]

Vet said 7 weeks
She is a purring lap kitty

 

[sealer39]

I rescued one a few weeks ago. She was totally wild. I haven’t taken mine to the vet yet because I read they are supposed to be 8 weeks for their first visit. I have no idea if that’s correct. The first thing I did was put her in a covered litter box in a bathroom and there she stayed. She preferred to be in there because she was hidden. I kept the door closed so my two other cats couldn’t get to her. That worked out great for me because she trained herself to use the litter box. I’ll be taking her to the vet next week. Here is a pic of her the day I caught her. I wanted to name her Gremlin but I got over ruled by my daughters.

and a pic of her after I fattened her up a bit.

 

[Doc7]

 

[Gallinarium]

I can't really help but I'd just like to say: AWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW.

 

[Doc7]

 

[cassie]

I have socialized any number of wild barn kittens by holding them on my lap and feeding them bits of tuna off my fingers.

 

[Doc7]

We are going to name the cat Ruby to go with the chickens born in similar time frame Romeo/Rocky/RBG/Raven

 

[Kgbao]

Ahhhh. That poor baby might be 8 weeks, so little and cute.

 

[microchick]

Poor little thing. She looks like she has been fed by whoever dumped her. Bless you for taking her in.

I'd say she's no more than 8 weeks, maybe younger. So tiny. We have 5 of the little heathens, our oldest, diabetic and 20 years old and our three youngest are 8. They sure wrap their little paws around your heart.

Your vet will be able to pinpoint her age for you.