Kitten Feeding

[LittleTabby]

Our kitten is 16 weeks old today. Up until now we have been feeding her half a pouch of wet food (a mix of Iams kitten and Felix kitten) 3 times per day. Then wet food left down inbetween.
However it's such hard work to get her to eat her morning wet food (I have to tempt her, stay with her, hold her bowl up etc) and she doesn't eat her lunch portion at all. She eats the dinner portion in the evening far far better! She cannot seem to manage it at all without me mashing completely with a fork, otherwise any neat she picks up falls back out of her mouth over and over again? She manages Iams dry food fine though and drinks plenty from her water bowl so I don't think there is anything wrong with her mouth or swallowing!

I am thinking about just going to 1/2 pouch AM and PM then dry through the day and night. Or just one full pouch in the evening, with dry food left out the rest of the time.... I think this might work better once she ventures outdoors anyway as she will hopefully come home for her tea!

This is our first cat and I am second guessing my thoughts and decisions so would appreciate some input from others, please!

Argh. Wish I could edit! It should read dry food left down inbetween in the first paragraph!

Plus meat, not eat!

Sorry 😳

Anyone? 🙈

Maybe she’d prefer a pate style kitten food?.

We were advised to give dry food so we give our kitten Hills Growth dry food. We put the recommended amount into a container and then give him some in the morning, some in afternoon and leave the rest at bed time. He eats most of it (have a bigger cat who usually manages to get at it). If big cats food is left out after he's eaten, the kitten might get at that but we're usually quick enough to take it from him.

@Fluffycloudland77

Maybe she’d prefer a pate style kitten food?.

Thank you, I have never heard of this! Can you recommend?

@Notaroadrunner

Thank you, I have thought about switching fully to dry, but I wanted to keep options open for now! I don't think she likes the felix to be honest, she seems to like the Iams in gravy more (which is typical as she was on that originally, then friend who we adopted from moved to Felix which she seemed to prefer so we bought a few boxes of that in preparation and only had the two Iams we had already bought!)
Based on that I am thinking she can have dry food predominantly with an Iams pouch in the evening. The box says 6 pouches, but I haven't worried too much as she free feeds from the dry inbetween/overnight! If she is just having the one pouch I better make sure I am encouraging adequate dry instead! Thank you!

Though saying that about the Iams, I am going to look into pate style too as that might help also!

I leave good quality dry food down all the time, then my two kittens get one sachet of wet to share in the evening.

We’re a whiskers household. I know it’s not the greatest but they spat out the Lily’s kitchen.

As she likes the dry food, I wouldn’t try too hard. Otherwise before you know it you’ll be hand feeding her smoked salmon and oysters.

Mine came to me on a mix of Felix wet and a dry food. They love the wet first thing so sticking with it, they don't seem to bothered later on so just leave them dry down

Thank you @Motorina and @Oldraver really helpful! Both of you sound like you are doing what I think we have settled on. Dry down predominantly with one daily wet offering!
Hopefully that works for her!
I agree not trying too hard though, I don't want things to just be increasingly complicated!

Yes to be honest I had intended to transition to mainly dry food ( have nightmares about previously fly blown) but as they seemed live the wet I'm prepared to stick with it

I did move them to Hi-Life which suits their tummy's more, though is expensive