How to feed a monthly kitten

It is generally accepted that cats love milk. However, in fact, the usual cow's milk, which we buy in the store, is too heavy food even for adult cats, what can we say about the crumb, which barely a month was fulfilled. It is best to feed the month-old kitten with a special dry formula for kittens, which can be purchased at a pet store along with a bottle for feeding.

Why is it important to give a kitten is a special substitute for cat milk, and not cow's milk? At first, Cow's milk does not contain in sufficient quantities all nutrients, which are necessary for normal developmentkitten. Secondly, in cow's milk is too high for the kitten content of milk sugar, which leads to a weakening of immunity and impaired digestion.

Up to four months the kitten needs to be fed every three to four hours (five to six meals a day). Milk mixture, which you give the kitten, should be fresh and slightly warmed. It is very important to determine the correct amount of a serving: you can not overfeed a kitten, but he should not remain hungry. Gradually you need to wean the kitten from the bottle: it must learn to lap yourself.

About a quarter of an hour after a meal, you need with gentle careful movements to massage the tummy of the kitten. The fact is that the mother cat after eating licksthe tummies of kittens, such massage helps them to empty the bladder and intestines. In the absence of the mother, you will have to do massage - but, naturally, not with the tongue, but with the pads of the fingers.

However, it is not worth feeding a monthly kitten with one milk formula. From the age of about five to six weeks, it's time to gradually accustom kittens to solid food, so that by two months they have already completely switched to a new diet (feed for kittens or natural food).

If you plan to feed the kitten with food in the future, you need to start feeding him special canned food for kittens. If the kitten refuses to eat them, you can add a little water to the cans and mix thoroughly so that they become more liquid. Remember that canned food should have room temperature.

Gradually, you can stop growing canned water. If you plan to continue to feed your pet with dry food, at first, a special dry food for kittens will need to be soaked. Gradually, soak the food less and less, so that in the end the kitten begins to gnaw dry food on its own.

From the kitten's natural food, one can feedgrated boiled meat (beef, chicken). You can also give baby meat puree without salt (only not pork). Do not give the kitten a ready-made forcemeat, it will not digest and can cause diarrhea. Useful for the kitten will be low-fat and sour-milk products (cottage cheese, yogurt, sour cream, yogurt). To curd, you can add a raw egg yolk and a little milk (minimum fat, preferably goat). Naturally, no products from your table can not give the kitten.

New products are introduced into the diet of a kittengradually, in small amounts (1-2 tsp) and one at a time. Carefully follow the reaction of the kitten: if there are no problems with the digestive tract, you can gradually increase the dose and introduce another new product. You can not mix new products with each other; any new product can be entered only the day after the previous one.

So, for your little pet to be healthy, it is very important to feed the monthly kitten, adhering to the recommendations described above. And if there is such an opportunity, It is better not to tear the kitten away from the mother ahead of time: at this age there is no better food for him than mother's milk.