What do kittens eat?
I try to accustom kittens to different foods. Usually by three months they are eating dry food, canned food and raw meat mixture. Now I’ll tell you and show you.
Dry food
Only premium food is needed
1.
Royal Canin Feline Health Nutrition Mother & Babycat Dry Cat Food
2. Dr. Elsey’s cleanprotein Chicken Kibble Cat Dry Food
www.chewy.com/dr-elseys-cleanprotein-turkey-kibble/dp/146269
3. Dr. Elsey’s cleanprotein Turkey Kibble Cat Dry Food
www.chewy.com/dr-elseys-cleanprotein-turkey-kibble/dp/304348
4. Dr. Elsey’s cleanprotein Duck Kibble Cat Dry Food
www.chewy.com/dr-elseys-cleanprotein-turkey-kibble/dp/304352
Canned food
1. Purina Pro Plan Kitten Classic Salmon & Ocean Fish Entree Canned Cat Food
2. Royal Canin Feline Health Nutrition Dry Kitten Food, Supports Digestive Health
Meat mixture
As for the recipe, we break it down into “rounds” and we usually do 6-8 rounds at a time and freeze it. Each round consists of:
-As close to 5lb pack of chicken thighs (with bone) that we can find. We remove the bones from 2 out of the 10 thighs. And remove extra fatty skin from 3 or 4 of the thighs (chicken skin is pretty fatty, and other ingredients provide better source of fats)
-1lb (16oz) of chicken hearts
-1lb (16oz) lean beef or pork
-0.5lb (8oz) chicken gizzards
-0.5lb (8oz) chicken livers
-5 egg yolks
-1 tin of sardines in water (amzn.to/4etB3qw)
-8oz of water (I add warm boiled water when defrosting)
And then, in the evenings we supplement with Kitty Bloom topper to provide and vitamins or minerals we may have missed.
I also add lysine once a day, it is good for boosting immunity, for appetite and for preventing or treating herpes.
The bones are ground in a meat grinder. I have a meat grinder like the one in the link, it grinds bones perfectly
Where to buy ready-made raw food?
If you want to buy a similar set but ready-made, then I can recommend a good company:
If you are going to feed dry food only,
please read this article
“Feeding Your Cat: Know the Basics of Feline Nutrition”
Cat Litter
Arm Hammer SLIDE Platinum
Almost all my cats and kittens love the wheel.
If the kitten has already learned to run in a wheel from me, then you can probably buy any. If not, then I recommend this wheel:
Cat Exercise Wheel With Carpeted Runway
I like it for several reasons: it’s compact, it arrives already assembled, it’s quiet, and cats can’t hurt themselves in it. They usually sell wheels and there’s a gap where someone will definitely stick their paw in once. And then they’ll be afraid of that wheel for a year. Only the holes in the wheel itself, if you have more than one cat, need to be sealed. Otherwise they stick their paws in these holes and I’m scared to think what will happen if one sticks his paw in and the other runs. Ma sealed the back side with transparent tape.
Toys that our cats like and play with for a long time
Interactive Cat Butterfly Toys, Exercise Flutter Rotating Kitten Toys, Feather Electric Cat Toy for Indoor Cats/Kitten, Cats Teaser Wand Automatic, Extra Long Feather Wand
All cats love tunnels.
This tunnel we have
amzn.to/4ejcSuv
All kittens love to roll balls!