In a message dated 8/27/02 11:49:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
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> ....  I wonder if infant formula would cause as much harm to animal
> shelter babies as it does to human babies??
>
>

Yes it is!  Companion animals are not tolerant of cow's milk protein and the
biochemical footprint in their species-specific milk is very, very different
than that of human milk.  Most of these are cache species so the milk is
exceptionally more concentrated in addition to the problem with the foreign
proteins.  Dr. Lawrence has a nice table on pg. 96.

Having said that, at times I have pumped up some yummy milk for sickly
kittens and it worked.  I always wondered if I was doing the wrong thing
exposing the kittens to foreign proteins in just the way formula does for
human babies.  However, given the lack of choices at the time ( I think
kitten formula is based on cow's milk), I gave it a shot, or would that be a
squirt?

Karen Seroussi whose BS in Animal Science turned out to be a entree for
lactation.

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