New kitten

[Nutellaplease]

We've just got a kitten today and I've been doing lots of research but still feeling slightly clueless! When we got him home he had a good look around and played with some toys, I showed him where the litter tray was twice and food and water once- he had a little drink and ate one tiny piece of the dry food. He's now been asleep for a few hours on his blanket on the sofa. I'm exhausted, can I go to bed or should I wait up a bit to show him the food and litter again?

You’ll need to get on to zooplus or into a pet shop the supermarkets don’t do decent kitten food. Mine was on Felix from the rescue and stayed on that until I was able to research.

Agree about the dry food. It’s particularly bad for Male cats. Ours was on dry before we got him at 8 weeks old, we swapped him to wet straight away and he was fine. He has maybe one scoop of Applaws dry mixed in with his wet food (Grau) once a day most days (we use those little scoops you get in tubs of vanish lol). Check out zooplus they have an amazing selection of brands you cant get in the supermarkets.

He’s adorable by the way. Good luck!

Thanks all I had no idea about the dry food issues, my only experience with cats is my mums who has always just eaten dry food but she’s a female. I will keep giving him just the wet food for the moment then and look into the better quality dry food.

Mine have AVA grain free dry food groom pets at home. They had the kitten version too. I give wet food alongside

THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH FELIX!!!

If the cat likes it, give it Mine have always had standard Felix pouches, plus some Royal Canin biscuits, & they are healthy, glossy & beautiful.

(The 4% thing seems to obsess some people. It’s guaranteed 4% of named meat, that’s all. The rest is “meat & meat derivatives, fish & fish derivatives, minerals, some sugars” - ie mostly protein, no grains at all.)

Kitten is beautiful, OP. I’m very jealous

I hate the smell and mess of wet food. My last cat was male and had dry food all his life (14 years). I fed him Iams and he never had bladder issues. I now have a kitten and am feeding her Whiskas but hate it, mixed with Purina dry food. She doesn't like the dry food. When the Whiskas is finished I am going to switch her on to Iams, but somehow I don't think she'll be keen on giving up wet food.

Acrosstheuniverse - well Iams isn't that bad. And of course dry food doesn't cause bladder issues in all male cats, just like smoking doesn't kill all smokers, but it does cause it in a significant number.

And I think it's a bit sad not to give a cat wet food if they like it just because you find it inconvenient.

I took a while to find a wet food my kitten would eat - the rescue sent him home with us with Whiskas pouches, but said he wasn't that interested.
After a bit of experimentation (including my mum spoiling him with freshly cooked turkey and chicken ), I found he would eat Lily's Kitchen wet food trays and Science Plan pouches in gravy (both kitten versions). He eats a mix of Whiskas and Science Plan kitten dry food alongside this.

To me it just seems boring having only dry in front of you. I gave them wet four times a day when they were young they didn’t eat much dry food then. Now I have to
Be careful as I find them quite addicted to it.

Aww he looks so tiny, how old is he?