Just received this back from the lady who posted. I've never heard of feeding them cow's milk and sugar
Hi thanks for your response, she had 4 kittens and 3 died, mum seemed
very dosy and still very fat so we took her to the PDSA. According to
the vet after examination she still had kittens inside her but she
believed them to be stuck so the vet decided to operate. 2 hours later
we got a phone call that the cat was still on the operating table and
that they had found more kittens but they were all dead, that her
kidneys had virtually packed in and that she had a serious infection.
According to the vet we could have got her back but she would have had
no milk and would have been terminally ill. We were told by the vet at
the PDSA to feed the kitten cows milk and sugar. The kitten is
thriving but we feel a surrogate mother gives her a better chance at
life.