Emergence in the house of a kitten is very joyful event, but considerably adding cares and responsibility. If the owner works and he has no time to prepare the balanced food for a kitten from natural products, an optimal variant will be to transfer an animal to a dry feed. It is necessary to do it gradually.
It is required to you
- - consultation of the manufacturer;
- - kitten food premium or top-class;
- - bowl for a dry feed;
- - bowl for clear water.
Instruction
1. The dry feed is made of the hydrolyzed meat, with addition of herbs, vegetables, the croup, vitamins of minerals, minerals and provides to a kitten the full-fledged growth and development. It is possible to transfer to it not earlier than in two months when at a kitten teeth completely are created, and he will learn to chew well.
2. Convenience of feeding by dry feeds obviously. Except that they contain all necessary, they long do not spoil in a bowl, do not soil the kitten and a floor near the place of feeding. For kittens there are special dry feeds with smaller and soft granules. Better if the forage a premium or top-class is chosen. On packing of all producers the age from which it is possible to begin to give to a kitten any given forage is specified. Therefore it is worth studying attentively the instruction, besides in shop there is a selling assistant who will in detail tell about advantages of all types of forages.
3. It is necessary to transfer to a dry feed within 10-15 days as it depends on specific features of an animal. Some kittens very quickly and easily get used to a dry feed, it is required to others at least 15, and sometimes more, days for accustoming.
4. The first days it is necessary to fill several granules of a forage to food, habitual for it. If the kitten does not touch them, then the dry feed should be humidified or mixed with usual food.
5. Daily (during the period stated above) the amount of habitual food needs to be reduced, to increase quantity of a dry feed.
6. When the kitten got used to a dry feed, its dose which is specified on each packing needs to be filled in a clean bowl every morning at the same time. A bowl from under water thoroughly to wash and fill fresh. If you for a long time leave, it is necessary to fill more forage and to put two bowls with water. Waters it is always required 4-5 times more, than a dry feed. Therefore behind that in a bowl there was always fresh water, it is necessary to watch closely.
7. If the kitten is completely transferred to a dry feed, then it cannot give usual food because it is possible to provoke disorder of digestion. At transfer of expensive kittens to dry feeds, it is always necessary to consult on the manufacturer about what forage is the most suitable for any given breed.