Me and my girlfriend took in a stray that had birthed three beautiful kittens on our doorstep about a month ago. Recently, the kittens have begun their curiosity stage, and have been running around like crazy (also running dangerously close to your feet). This sunday, one of the kittens, who we noted for being smart and adventerous, played a little too close to my girlfriend's feet and was stepped on. I arrived 5 mintues later ,after she frantically called me, to see the kitten laying on it's side, with blood comming from his nose, but still breathing. I picked him up, and he arched back a little (I thought his back was broken), but that was all he did. We had to wait through the night, because there were no vet. emergency services responding to our calls. 
. First thing in the morning, we took our still, breathing kitten to the vet, with the expectation that he would have to be euthanised. The veternarian instead told us that, after he checked out the kitten, that there were no internal or skeletle injuries. But the kitten has brain damage.
He told us to nurse him, and stimulate him for a week, and to come back in a week. He said we'de know in a week if he'll recover or not.
For the past two days, we have been nursing him. He cannot move his limbs, or focus (straighten) his eyes, but he does breath, swallow, open his eye lids a bit, and occasionally will let out a little meow. He goes to the bathroom, and there is no blood present. He streches a bit when ever he wakes up, and twitches his head when you blow on his ears.
Does anyone have any advice, or have heard of any similair stories? The vet says kittens can recover from this sort of thing if its not to bad. Lets hope so.
. First thing in the morning, we took our still, breathing kitten to the vet, with the expectation that he would have to be euthanised. The veternarian instead told us that, after he checked out the kitten, that there were no internal or skeletle injuries. But the kitten has brain damage.He told us to nurse him, and stimulate him for a week, and to come back in a week. He said we'de know in a week if he'll recover or not.
For the past two days, we have been nursing him. He cannot move his limbs, or focus (straighten) his eyes, but he does breath, swallow, open his eye lids a bit, and occasionally will let out a little meow. He goes to the bathroom, and there is no blood present. He streches a bit when ever he wakes up, and twitches his head when you blow on his ears.
Does anyone have any advice, or have heard of any similair stories? The vet says kittens can recover from this sort of thing if its not to bad. Lets hope so.
