Cat food - which is best brand/dry/wet etc? Please help!

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As you know, I am looking to get a kitten in the near future.

Just trying to figure out what it would need to eat - a mix? just dry? just wet? how much roughly per meal? (understand kittens need 3/4 meals per day - is this right?)

As you can see - lots of questions! What do you feed your cats?

The cat I have now gets 50 grams of dry GoCat a day, but she's a fat lazy house mog.

My old cat would eat whiska's pouch's about 4 or 5 a day, but he was very active and went hunting every day.

I think it depends on the cat you get and what they've been fed before you get them.

Vets recommend a dry food as it's good for their teeth. But Iam's gave my old cat kidney problems because it's very high in salt.

Hope this helps.

Thanks My cat will be a house-moggie too... am looking at all the costs at present.

Seems dry food is best - just got to find a low salt, decent quality one!

Do kittens NEED cat-milk or is it a marketing ploy to suck money out of us?

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by "do cats need milk" I mean on top of water - do they actually need it (I know they can't have cows milk so cat-milk it would be if they do need it to grow) but am just wondering if once they have been weaned, if it is a pointless marketing ploy?

The best dry food I have found is IAMS or Science Diet-not as cheap as some but definitely better.
Mine have theirs in a gravity feeder and get a puch or tray of wet food as well before bed.
They don't "need" mil and you are right-the lactose in cow'smilk can have unfortunate side effects in the poo department .

The biggest point with dry food is to have plenty of available drinking water-we have a water fountatin type thingy which lasts the three of them all week-well would last longer but I like to scrub it once a week.

I give one pouch of wet food (100g) for breakfast and unlimited dry food throughout the day (but he is a small cat). Preferred brand is felix. He cannot stand Morrissons own brand pouches and will only eat Whiskas or tesco own brand at a push (but sulks). Go-cat dried food is apparently acceptable this week.

Used to give milk, but he usually ignores it, so now just offer him some as a treat every few months. Fresh water always available, although he prefers to 'steal' it from a jug on the coffee table than the bowl by his food, so I have to keep both topped up.

I have just moved my young tom off dry food and onto tins due to recurrent UTIs. Appaerntly male cats can suffer quite badly. mine did, he is much better on Whiskas.

Cats are designed tgo obtain the majority of their daily moisture from their food - and on dry food they need to drink 1/2 a pint a day .. which most cats won't do!

We found James Wellbeloved dried food recently for dogs AND cats & you can buy big sacks which is cheaper, as it's quite expensive but good quality.

Our kittens have Whiskas/Felix kitten pouches, used to be one four times a day between them, plu a bowl of dried food. Then I started giving them more but no they are huge & getting "done " tomorrow (10 months old) so I might cut back a bit or they'll get too fat- can't stand fat-cats!!

Well, the kitten is coming tomorrow.

I went to Pets at Home today and got Whiskas Kitten dry complete stuff.

Seems to be ok; Whiskas is a "leading" brand so I went for that. Hoping to keep kitty on just dry food but will see what she likes first I think - can add pouches to the dry if needs be

Thanks for all your help

hi we use royal canin dry food. we used it when they were kittens as it had an immunity booster or something, got given it in the vets, as when we got them they had cat flu!! they're now on the adult in and outdoor 28 cat food, but i think there's one specifically for indoor cats. our 2 seem to love it. a bit more expensive than whiskas but the man in the pet store told me that whiskas wasn't a complete food but that the royal canin was. so went with that. hth, and good luck with your new kitten.

best brand of food is royal canin (doesn't mean others are bad - just that rc is the best available). Different ones depending on your cats age/health/habits. It tells you on packet how much they need - some come with measuring cup.

With any dried food you need to make sure they always have access to plenty of clean water.

PErsonally I feed mine on tinned fish and leftover meat scraps. But then they have lots of allergies/react very badly to certain things. It costs similar to buying cat food and mine are both in very good health.

I feed mine 2x day whihc is about average for grown cats. Kittens - should state on food.

DON'T GIVE THEM MILK OR ANY DAIRY (sorry if you were aware of this - but lots aren't). And definately don't buy any of that whiskers 'kitten milk' shite - most cats are dairy intolerant so it's just very expensive coloured water with a few vitamins added.

ok didn't read latest. Congratulations.

PErsonally I wouldn;t bother with whiskers - won't do them any harm, but not great.

When we had two cats, one only ate canned food, and the other only ate dry.