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What kind of food should we feed our kittens, and how does that change when they grow up?
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At 6-8 weeks of age, kittens are being weaned from nursing or bottle-feeding. Kittens should be given high quality wet food and should be fed 4 times a day until they reach 12 weeks of age. Water consumption is a concern for a growing kitten so dry chow should not be a significant part of their daily intake. Make sure to provide variety in their food choices to prevent your kitten from becoming a fussy eater. Transition your kitten to adult food at 1 year.
Source Link: Kitten Resources
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What they should eat depends upon what you choose to feed them. I highly recommend researching raw feeding, but if you’re not yet up to that, then start with a good commercial canned food. Don’t feed any dry food whatsoever - it’s highly “addictive” and you don’t want a kibble junky on your hands!
Kittens do not need to eat “kitten” food. This is because most of the kitten foods on the market differ from adult food in very few, unimportant ways: The kibble bits are smaller (that’s nice), they have a little more protein (but probably not meat-based protein), and they’re higher in calories (that’s nice, but…..)
Kittens do not need anything that adults don’t, and vice versa. Kittens will not be harmed by eating adult foods, but they may not be getting their caloric requirements unless they’re fed enough of it.
The best thing to feed a kitten, if you’re willing to learn about it, is a raw meat diet. If you want to learn more, search for raw feeding at Yahoo Groups. There are several very good groups out there.
Or you can select a good commercial canned food and call it a day. The What to feed link offers many suggestions. Even though they don’t market themselves as “kitten” foods, they are appropriate so long as you feed according to the guidelines.
Taken from http://www.maxshouse.com/feline_nutrition.htm:
Energy Requirements for Kittens and Adult Cats
Age kcal/lb body wt
Kittens: 10 weeks 113
20 weeks 59
30 weeks 45
40 weeks 36
Adult Cats: Inactive 18
Active 20-30
Pregnant 45
Lactating* 56–145
This site has another table showing the minimum protein allowances for cats v. kittens. It boils down to kittens needing 4% more protein than adults. There were other items in there, but it didn’t vary widely at all.
One word of warning - if you’re feeding an adult cat dry food from the grocery store, then I would probably stick with the kitten food for the kitten. Because the adult’s food is inferior, I think it would be better for the kitten to get the questionable benefits from the kitten food. But of course a better idea would be to feed both of them a better food.
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Evo is a high quality cat food that can be used for both cats and kittens. As a dry food you can feed moistened until about 12 weeks and then dry. Some people say you should supplement dry kibble with a bit of canned food to avoid urinary tract infections and other problems. Evo also makes canned food. I give my three kitties Evo no grain, but they have many different recipes to choose from.
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You say that we can moistened the dry food for the kittens. Is by put the water in the dish with the dry food to make it soft??? Right??? Because I have these kittens in my place when I am not there to make sure they are eating something that is very soft as well as their kind kitten milk. I need help in this area since is my first time in a long time to have kittens to care for. Thank You for responding.
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feed them 9 lives or kit koododal. I spelled it wrong but it is spelled different.But that is the best food
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