It means the world to them, and to TFC’s foster families. Thank you to this community for helping TFC have access to the tools we need to rescue and rehabilitate kittens and cats. The incubator has become a critical part of that process. This leads to a lot of sick kittens that just need some medical care, a bit of socialization, and time to grow up a bit. TFC evaluates every cat, and if they are social or kittens under 8-10 weeks, we bring them into foster care for later adoption. It is very hard to relocate feral cats to new home, and returning them to their original territory has been determined to be the kindest and most effective method long term of controlling and reducing cat overpopulation. When the TFC works in a barn, we do Trap-Neuter or Spay-Return (TNR). This can lead to a lot of suffering all around. Cat populations can quickly explode out of control, and barns often experience “drop-offs” of cats and kittens they don’t want, don’t need, and can’t afford to have altered. Over time, it has become clear that some of the greatest needs in TFC’s operating area is to provide help with feral cat populations in local barns. Several weeks later Krumkake is now catching up to his siblings in weight, is an energetic, playful, and happy guy! If you’re breeding high value dogs or cats you’ll want to use one of these incubators to increase your success rate. You can see how sad and miserable this little guy was, and here, just a few weeks later, he is doing great and bouncing around with his siblings (below). Digital humidity control available as an extra cost option. The incubator was incredibly important to Krumkake’s (Pronounced Chroom-Ca-Ca) recovery, the one who struggled the very most and survived. Kittens were housed in incubators starting under 7 days of age until 3-4 weeks. Incubators can be the difference between life and death. Orphaned neonatal kitten mortality rate is estimated between 15-40. Because of the generous donations, TFC was able to purchase the biggest model, which will allow even an adult cat an extended-if crowded- stay. However, incubators are designed for housing sick cats and kittens longer term. In this case, the foster family needed to frequently wash the kittens and used the incubator to dry them and avoid chills. Krumkake and other ginger cookie kittens getting warm These ginger kittens are recovering nicely but still under evaluation and not yet available for adoption. They suffered from a parasite called Coccidia that can cause continual diarrhea, which is life-threatening to kittens until medication gets rid of it. The pictures below show the incubator in use with some of the Cookie Barn Kittens, a beautiful set of gingers. It is even more critical for sick kittens, who get chilled instantly when away from heat. Young kittens can’t regulate their own body temperature, so an incubator is really helpful for bottle babies. It has been in such constant use, we just now got some good pictures of it to share with you! Krumkake in the incubatorĪfter losing too many sick kittens rescued from the Homer and Game of Thrones barns last fall, we committed to buying an incubator. With the funding donated from that event, we have been able to secure the incubator we so desperately needed. We have complete incubator/oxygen concentrator setups.Last holiday season, many of you participated in The TFC’s Holiday Raffle. Large 32″wide X 16″ front to back X 18″ highĮxtra Large 34.5″wide X 18″ front to back X 19.5″ high Don’t buy this for a mature dog or cat.Ī one year parts and labor warranty is included at no extra cost on these products. Use on mature dogs and cats is discouraged. Here’s information on finding an oxygen concentrator. Tips on finding a oxygen concentrator near you. We have complete incubator/oxygen concentrator setups. When it does need servicing, that can be done for about $300. Since with puppies you’re only using it a few days per litter at most, you can see that you have this concentrator for a long time (years) before it needs to be serviced. If you run one like that, after about a year the filtering/concentrating performance starts to drop off.
These units are built to run 24 hours a day all the time. You just plug the machine into your wall outlet.
So you have pure (93% or better at 5 cubic liters per minute) oxygen coming out the tubing and going into the incubator. So we’ve put together this information to simplify the process.Ī concentrator takes the oxygen in the air (air is approx 20% oxygen and 80% nitrogen) and filters out the nitrogen. Note: not every newborn needs supplemental oxygen but most of the sales inquiries we get ask about oxygen too. Includes incubator as described above and tubing and fittings. Get a complete incubator with oxygen setup for puppies and kittens.
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