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I recently adopted a 5 month old kitten, unfrotunatly is he uninterested in his high quality kitten food. All he wants to eat is our older cat’s maintenance cat food. They both have 1/4 of a can of high quality (Wellness brand) wet food every morning, but I always have the dry food out as well for grazing. What I’ve done is mixed the kitten and cat food together so at least he’s getting some of each. Should I also be supplementing with kitten vitamins? Should I be doing this anyway for both cats?
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I was told by a vet years ago that if you\\\’re using a good quality food, then it\\\’s okay for your kitten to eat adult food. Mixing is fine and I wouldn\\\’t worry about giving him vitamins unless he has a weakened immune system. If he’s healthy with a healthy coat, then I wouldn’t worry. Many of our rescues (30 of them) refused to eat kitten food after they discovered the adult food.
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The only difference between \\\”kitten\\\” and \\\”adult\\\” cat food is typically about 1-2% more protein and 1-2% more fat. Higher quality \\\”adult\\\” foods should have enough of both for a kitten and any \\\”adult\\\” food with low percentages of protein and fat should not be fed anyway as your cat will mostly be getting grain filler which is worthless. A lot of the kitten/adult food stuff, frankly, is just marketing.
Vitamin supplements are not only unecessary but some vitamins can be toxic in higher amounts and you could unwittingly overdose your cat on some of the fat-soluble vitamins and some minerals (especially iron) by adding extra to his diet when the already-balanced cat food you\\\’re feeding him is meeting his needs. Vitamin supplements can get you in trouble depending on what\\\’s in them and I wouldn\\\’t attempt it without close veterinary oversight and definitely if there\\\’s no real reason to do so (like a medical condition).
Keep a close eye on your kitten\\\’s health, weight and vitality. If he doesn\\\’t seem to be thriving you may have to re-tool his diet eventually but it\\\’s unlikely as long as you\\\’re feeding something decent (which Wellness definitely is, though you didn\\\’t mention what the dry food is).
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i read somewhere else on this site that you can just skip the pumpkin ball force feeding (sounds painful!) and put the energy-drink soaked tamale in a tennis ball shooter and the cat will just jump up and eat it no problem! work smarter, not harder!
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What I like to do is soak a tamale in an energy drink, stuff a pumpkin ball, some catnip and rose hips in it, and force feed it to my cat. He seems to love it.
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But you still need the pumpkin ball in there. That drives the nutrition home.
Source Link: Jack Tors
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I don\\\’t think a vitamin supplement is necessary, but I\\\’m not a nutritionist.
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