You brought the pet – little and very lovely kitten. One of the main issues about care for it arising in the owner's head: in what terms and how to transfer this lovely creature to specialized cat food since this way of feeding is most optimum, convenient and practical.
Instruction
1. Take care of that transition to a forage was smooth and painless for an animal. It is necessary to avoid such unpleasant side effects as a diarrhea, vomiting or a lock. You should not make experiments with different sterns, to transfer to industrial food for a while, and then to return to natural food. Transition has to be carried out once and for all as for cats the main thing is the smell and consistence of what they eat, and the taste is not on the first place. Besides, these animals extremely hard change the habits.
2. You transfer a kitten to a forage not earlier than in 2 months from a sort when at it teeth a little get stronger. It is the best of all to transfer to a dry feed only on the second year of life. And in the first year the natural forage consisting for 90% of meat and fish paste and for 10% from vegetables will be useful to a kitten (a squash, a bush pumpkin, carrots, cabbage, except white, paprika). Besides it is necessary to give cottage cheese, crude eggs, milk and vitamins. Then at you the healthy animal will grow.
3. Choose a suitable forage for your pet. Consider that forages the house-keeper of a class are less nutritious and unhealthy even for adult cats. And your kid needs a qualitative and full-fledged diet therefore pay attention to food for kittens of a super premium class.
4. You transfer a kitten to a forage gradually. All process has to take about 2 weeks. In each case everything will be individual. Some animals quickly and willingly pass to "drying" or a soft forage, and others it is heavy also with full unwillingness. Algorithm of actions following: every day for 10-15 days it is necessary to reduce quantity of natural food approximately by 1/10-1/15 and on as much to increase a dose of an industrial forage.
5. You feed a kitten of 4-5 times a day in the small portions. For this purpose attentively read instructions on the label with a forage. Closer by a year it is possible to transfer an animal to 2-times food. Also do not forget enough to leave freshen to the pet of water.
6. Further do not use the mixed diet (natural products and an industrial forage) when feeding. The fact is that forages for animals of a premium class are well balanced. And addition of natural products will break a proper correlation of substances that will damage to an organism of an animal and will lead to metabolic disorders and different diseases of a digestive tract.