Cat food questions - merged

Tigsteroonie

His mouth will be small, so try some "kitten" specific dry food rather than the larger biscuits.

rita-rabbit

Go-cat is poor quality food: with additives, colourings etc.

Best thing is to plan/buy ahead & thus feed good quality food cheaply: Will save you in vets fees in the longrun.

Burns
James Wellbeloved
Royal Canine

all good but Burns (IMHO) best & cheapest

MrsE_2

rita-rabbit wrote: »

Go-cat is cheap poor quality food: with additives, colourings etc

I agree, get some good dry food - for a kitten & just feed dry, better for their teeth, the smell, won't go dry & crusty, won't attract flies, ect.

I feed Royal Canin, seems expensive but a bag lasts nearly a month & mine is a greedy begger.

If I didn't feed Royal Canin I would feed Hills.

Edited to add, I've also heard James Welbeloved & burns were decent, but RC is the best.

LOOK FOR OFFERS IN PETS SHOPS & PETS AT HOME

If you must buy it for a supermaket then Iams is the best they sell in a supermarket, a million times better than Go-Cat.

But get the kitten stuff & STOP all other food.

medini

Have switched to hills science diet kitten food dry and whiskers kitten wet food. Would have got some better knitten food, but my local pets at home only had whiskers kitten and nothing else kitten sized.

When we went to the vet she suggested we use a mix of wet/dry food until he matures and then switch to dry only.

Licclelisa

I have just recently got my girl and although she is used to tinned cat food i would like to get her onto a dry food diet, she will eat dry food if theres nothing else.

What are the best foods?? and the most cost effective and best deals?

I dont know how to put a picture of her on or i would

junior_j

Okay , well i have two kittens at the moment...

- they eat wet whiskers food (although its not excellent because only 4% meat) but there is always a deal on them - usually 4 pounds for 24 pouches. Are cats eat 2-3 pouches a day , so it actually last our for a good few days..

-Dried food - a good tip i had figured out today. We used to buy purina or whiskers dried food , but the super market own brand (well asdas anyway) there dried food has almost the same amount of protein as other proper brand cat food.

For example

Purina/whiskers kitten dried food-40%
Asdas own 35%

Price - Whiskers 1 pound a small box
Price- Asdas own 45p a medium box.

Hope that helps
Jess x

junior_j

Well , my kitten 11 weeks and 12 weeks eat kitten food , usually if they will eat dried as well u can move them onto cat food at 5 months some thing like that..

Depends on the animal , u have to really look at the factors of ur little fur baby!!!!

Like Jinxy (11 weeks)

Drinks lots of kitten milk (miss's her mummy i guess?) so she also needs to be backed up with some wet food to ,

Always leave dried food out at ALL time , and fresh water out ALL the time , its very good for animals to do that , also encourages them to eat it...

When a cat is hungry they will EAT it.

But yes its better to keep kittens on wet kitten food until their at least 5 months.
Jess x

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

I'm just wondering how cats managed to survive for so many centuries without expensive pouches of kitten food...if it doesn't like kibble there is no way it will eat it, so don't worry. However, special cat milk is a good idea. I would bear in mind that vets make money from selling expensive kibble - a lot of money.

looby-loo_2

Hi, mine have a tin of sardines as a treat on Sunday (only 23p in Lidl) which a breeder told me was good for their bones and fur. One tin between three (one sardine each) and they love them. They prefer them in tomato sauce. Once I bought them in oil by mistake and my little femle wouldn't eat hers so I added a good squirt of Heinz Ketchup and she gobbled it up:rolleyes:

Sazzyukrafc

I got my boys at 8 weeks, they're now 15months!

We had them on kitten food until 12months as suggested by my auntie who owns a cattery/kennels and pet shops. However, when they were about 8months we started giving them some adult cat food so they could get used to that. We also started giving them adult cat biscuits.

The idea of kitten food is that it has the nutrients a kitten needs to grow healthy bones etc...

We are trying to make them have just dry food at the moment (they eat it fine at the cattery!) but they won't eat it all the time at home. I guess at the end of the day, if they're that hungry they'll eat it!