Feeding 7 month old kitten

dp1

Hi We got a 7 month old male kitten last week; his last owners were unable to keep him. Not sure how much I should be feeding him. I've been giving him half a pouch of Whiskas kitten food ( this is what he had been eating) morning and teatime and putting dry biscuits out for him to eat during the day. He wolfs the wet food down and usually only has a few biscuits left by teatime.
Is this enough food or should he be having more wet food?

gunsandbanjos

Sounds ok to me, my boy is 5 and gets one pouch that he grazes on and dry food that again he grazes on. He's just fine with it.

Trust me, kitty will let you know if he's hungry!!!

happilymarried2013

I usually give my feline children half a tine of wet food each and some biscuits. Yours will soon ambush you for more if he gets hungry in the mean time.

paddypaws101

I would be giving him at least 2 pouches of wet food a day as well as the biscuits as at 7 months old he will still be growing. Try and feed him primarily on wet food rather than dry as males are at higher risk of urinary problems than females.
You could look at better quality foods than Whiskas too......Zooplus sells some great canned food such as Bozita, Animonda Carny or Smilla. Whiskas dry food and other similar cheap brands should be avoided in favour of better quality options.

Emmylou_2

Mine are nearly 5 months now. Growing like bloody weeds.

They get a pouch of whiskas kitten between them at lunchtime and bedtime - sometimes it's eaten, sometimes it's not. They are also free-fed Royal Canin kitten dry food - they get through one of those shallow Mason Cash bowls a day, or thereabouts.

gettingready

Also pls look into getting him vaccinated, neutered and microchipped now - before you ever let him outside. You do not want him to stray running after a female cat or get in fight with other males and risk injury/infection

SensibleSarah

My youngest cat (now nearly 18 months old) has always been a greedy so and so. She's been stealing food from my other cats bowls since she was tiny so a little difficult to track exactly what she ate at that age but it was definitely more than OP mentioned. Probably about 1.5-2 pouches a day, plus a large handful of good quality dry food. She was already neutered etc by that age & running around the garden all day so burnt up loads of energy - so your boy might eat less if he's not as active.

GwylimT

Kittens should really be fed on demand, when ours was that age she often ate 400g a day!!!

Whiskas is very expensive for the quality and it wont fill puss up for as long, if you're happy to order online there are way cheaper brands that are better quality. A few are smilla, animonda carny, macs, bozita, grau, however I find the cheapest method is raw. Obviously kittens need as much as they ask for, but now our current cat is an adult she weights 5.5kg and eats 200g of raw a day, if she ate good quality wet food she would need around 400g a day. Raw also produces small odourless poo!

Either way I would go more wet, it is really hard for cats who eat dry to be adequately hydrated, it also increases the chance of UTIs, kidney disease, diabetes and urinary blockages. Apart from diabetes these risks are all greater in male cats compared to females.