i have my kitten eating kitten whiskas and he sometime wont eat it, when can i change his kitten food to regular food? i had to get regular cat food at publix since they were out of the kitten stuff
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Posted 2 years ago by sweetamy189 #
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Between 8-12 months is when most say to switch? what kind of food is available where you live b/c whiska's really isn't that great of stuff? or where do you live?
Posted 2 years ago by furryfriends50 #
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i live in north florida, whiska's is good food for him, he likes it, i think he's just getting tired of the same food because i got regular cat food in another bag and he goes to it. he also love wet food, which i mix that with some dry food that he loves.
Posted 2 years ago by sweetamy189 #
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mixing wet in with dry makes tons of bacteria in the food. wet food is much better for cats since they are carnivores and they eat meat. they can't really digest stuff other than meat.
here is a very short thread about holistic foods: http://www.dailykitten.com/chat/topic/20057
a longer thread about the best brands: http://www.dailykitten.com/chat/topic/16684
and two more about food: http://www.dailykitten.com/chat/topic/16525
http://www.dailykitten.com/chat/topic/16437a bit of info on raw feeding: http://www.dailykitten.com/chat/topic/20534
some great sites: catinfo.org http://www.littlebigcat.com/index.php?action=library www.fnes.org
Posted 2 years ago by furryfriends50 #
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How old is your kitten? Because like it was stated above, if your baby is younger than eight months then he needs to be on kitten food. All cats are different but most of the cats i've had in my life don't really like a change in food. In fact it usually makes them have diarreah and/or vomit for a couple days, so maybe it could be something else? Maybe not, but there is a good chance. I think mixing the wet and dry food is okay as long as you don't leave it sitting. Mixing anything wet with anything dry causes bacteria, but if he's eating his helping right away it should be fine.
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oh i only do a little bit of the mixture, just enough for him to eat all of it. my husband on the other hand mixed the whole thing of cat wet food which was a quarter of the way gone with all of his dry food. i cleaned his bowl when i got home and told him that thats not good. he is 3 months old. but he has eaten cat food b4 at my mom's, my husbands mom's, and the place i got him. i know to mix kitten food and cat food together so he can get used to it so he won't get sick, i've had a cat get sick on me when i was younger when i changed foods. I've been around cats my entire life this is just the first kitten i've taken care of on my own.
Posted 2 years ago by sweetamy189 #
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just because a cat likes their food doesn't mean it is any good. whiska's is filled with corn and soy. no carnivore can digest that, even humans have a harder time digesting those and we aren't supposed to eat meat! if you look at the ingrediant list on the bag of food you'd understand. cats only digest meat so there is little useful ingrediants in whiska's dry and i think it has chicken by-product meal in it which is about as low of meat quality as you can get.
wet food is the way to go for sure if you can't do raw!
By Nature Organics makes a great wet food. Their dry is full of carbs.
EVO i believe is the highest quality dry out there at this time you can search where to find it where you live from their site: http://www.evopet.com/where-to-buy/default.asp
other great drys are:
Nature's Variety Instinct both the chicken and the rabbit
Innova
California Natural
Taste of the Wildokay my mind is going blank i'll post more later.
Posted 2 years ago by furryfriends50 #
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alright but how about something that i can budget. dry cat food is what i can afford and my mom has been giving it to her cats for many years. i've been around cats my entire life and thats all they ate, they lived good long lives. i would love to get more wet cat food for him but i just cant afford it.
Posted 2 years ago by sweetamy189 #
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I've actually found the expensive premuim foods like EVO to be MORE affordable because the cats eat way less, have less waste so they use less litter, and less health problems so less money spent at the vets.
petsmart carries sophistacat which i think is a fairly good quality yet cheap wet food (13 oz can for $0.65). very affordable but you have to check for the right flavors because some of them are worse ingrediants than others.
RAW is the cheapest way to go i can feed 20 cats on $7 a day when they get all raw for that day. i do have more cats than that but many of them dispite being fixed are wanderers.
Chicken is around $1 a pound, a kitten will need all they can eat which say would be 5 oz a day. so that would be around $0.33 a day. turkey i have found as low as $0.50 a pound so for you that would be only $0.15 a day. beef is more expensive and would be $0.66 a day. pork if on sale is around a dollar so that would be $0.33 a day. raw is very cheap and the healthiest food. however you have to follow the guidelines to make sure it is a balanced diet which i posted here: http://www.dailykitten.com/chat/topic/20534
Posted 2 years ago by furryfriends50 #
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alright i'll try petsmart, that sound cheaper than the wet cat food i sometimes get for him. but i dont like the fact of feeding anything raw to anyone. >_< u got salmonella and so much bacteria in raw food, now i have a cat that loves cooked chicken i mean she can eat it every night, white meat preferably, and when we have steak we give spaz our male kitten little pieces. cooked meat is good too right?
Posted 2 years ago by sweetamy189 #
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cats have tough stomachs and there is very little risk feeding raw meat. mice and birds are raw too and cats don't have problems with them ;) i feed mine raw and then i can steal some meat from them when i am getting it ready but mine gets cooked. this expains why there is not much risk: http://fnes.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=20:spooked-by-salmonella-raw-food&catid=1:raw-feeding&Itemid=3
cooked meat kills the vitamins, minerals, and taurine in the meat so while it can be used as a treat there is no way it could be the only food a cat got.
if you are careful and freeze the meat for the correct times before feeding then raw is no risk. The only reported deaths from raw meat was from salmonella however the owner did not keep the plates clean and left out the meat for way to long which let it grow bacteria. when feeding raw you have to keep things clean and wash any surfaces that have come in contact with the meat.
however yes vets will get mad at people who feed raw but 99% of vets have little training in cat nutrition. what they learn is an hour class sponsered and run by companies like iams and science diet which are junk brands imo.
with sophistacat wet look at the ingrediants and make sure that meat by-products is not the first ingrediant. sophistacat dry though is junk.
petsmart has Blue Buffalo Wilderness which IMO is the only decent dry food they carry. it is an ALF food (all life stage) so it is great for kittens and adults.
cats are obligate carnivores and you can't work around that fact ;)
Posted 2 years ago by furryfriends50 #
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well first i'd have to make it through the rest of highschool ;) besides, the best food is raw, then the 95% meat wet foods (evo 95% and by nature have those) though evo shouldn't have carrageenan.
Posted 2 years ago by furryfriends50 #
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