Kitten food

[bobofthelobs]

Hi, we are getting our first kittens next weekend and we’ve never had cars before so I’m second guessing everything!

We are adopting two 12 week old kittens from a rescue centre and they are currently being fed whiskas wet kitten food and Wainrights dry kitten food.

I’ve been reading that neither are very good quality and was wondering how to transition to better food and what that might be and whether we can just feed dry food or do they need wet food as well.

And any other kitten tips very much appreciated!

you move them off their old food slowly by adding small amounts of new food to old slowly adding more over time

look at the ingredients you want things like name meat products at the first like chicken beef not animal by product or digest or animal derivatives .The more meat the better they are carnivores

i am on a budget so i use zooplus you can buy all kinds of grain free high quality stuff.I use bozita wet food

I feed wet in morning and leave dry out for them to snack on .Another tip spray their bed with feliway to help them settle inn

but if you can afford it this is one of the good quality ones

https://www.viovet.co.uk/Orijen-Kitten-Food/c132666/

I have always fed purizon cat food, and they do a kitten version. It's high quality and cat loves it.

I then dont stress when the cat will only eat less quality wet food. Currently having Morrisons mouses tins, sheba fine and fresh and encore.

I feel wet is important as my cat doesn't drink much water despite me providing Waitrose bottled water for the little prince.

I use Katkin which you can use for all ages. It's freshly frozen pouches and you defrost them up to a week in advance. 100% meat, high protein, well received by both my cats.
I don't feed mine dry at all. I think that feeding wet, or at least a mix, is best. My previous cat had a urinary blockage and was very ill so this has put me off.

Lots of people do it slowly but when my kittens came they didn’t like the food they were on so I swapped them after two days and they didn’t get upset tummy’s or anything. I gave them untamed instead of the crappy Felix they were on!

We keep them on wet food because it’s always been a nightmare persuading them to drink, and we used to have an elderly male who was prone to bladder crystals (agonising).

We mixed it in over a few days.

We go for any that don’t list cereals in the ingredients. Switching to those (even the cheap ones) fixed our overweight cat who kept raiding bins, another cat’s diarrhoea and said bladder crystals.

We just buy supermarket own brand though. They seem to cope better with that than with the expensive stuff, fortunately.