Feeding a kitten

Young cats have special dietary needs. Cats that are under eight weeks of age especially need to specific foods. If your kitten is that young and away from its mother, you will want to put baby food on your fingers and let your pet lick the food off your finger until you think it can learn to eat the food from a dish. You’ll want to feed your young kitten regularly and frequently. This means multiple times a day. When you are helping a young kitten develop its abilities to eat, you need to feed it five or six times a day. Do it every three or so hours. And do it on the hour. You need to make sure you feed your pet on time, so it gets used to eating.

Once your kitten gets to be about two months old, it should be completely weaned from its mother. At this point you need to make sure it has three to five meals a day. Feed it regularly and the same amount of food each time. A good diet for your young cat is this: Feed it a teaspoon of warm ground beef with a teaspoon of baby food or soup first thing in the morning. At lunch time, feed it a teaspoon of baby cereal and with teaspoon of a milk-and-water mix and nutritional supplements. Then at night you should feed your kitten either a teaspoon of cooked fish, a teaspoon of cottage cheese, a soft-boiled egg yolk, or a teaspoon of raw liver.

Once your cat grows to about six months old, you can feed it two meals a day; and when it gets to be a year old, you can reduce its feedings to once a day. You want to always avoid feeding your cat bones. Bones can splice easily and cause intestinal problems in your pet.

Helping your kitten develop its feeding schedule and ability is not an easy task. For many cat owners, it’s the most difficult process of owning a kitten. But you need to be patient and go through this step in order for your kitten to grow into a healthy cat.