Is it possible to feed a kitten with baby food?

Periodically, there are times when cats refuse to feed their newborn offspring. And then the animal owner has to think about how to go even blind kittens. It will be described below how and how to feed a kitten in order to raise it healthy, and whether baby food will be suitable for feeding.

Peculiarities of feeding newborn kittens

Veterinarians unanimously argue that the kittens should be fed exclusively with a special milk formula, which is designed to meet the needs of small fluffy and as close as possible to cat's milk. But such mixtures can be very difficult to find in a regular pet store, and the prices for such a mixture are quite high. In such conditions, infant formula can be a good substitute.

The mixture should be diluted with boiled water, in an amount twice as large as indicated in the instructions.Baby food taken intended for children from birth. Since the infant formula contains more fat and carbohydrates than in cat milk. And this in the future may lead to problems in the health of a four-footed friend.

The kitten of the first months of life should be fed every three to four hours, both during the day and at night. For this purpose, you need a special small bottle with a dummy. She already comes in a pack with a mixture. Or you can feed with a syringe and pipette.

Be sure to monitor the condition of the pet. If the mixture does not fit him, he will become sluggish, he may suffer from abdominal pain, the kitten’s stool will become green and with mucus, blood streaks are possible, there will also be a bad weight gain. Normally, the baby will gain in weight by 10-20 grams every day.

Proper feeding technique kitten

If a kitten eats up a little of the feed for one feeding, then in half an hour you should try feeding it again in an hour.After feeding, always wipe the tummy of the baby with a damp cloth, like a cat should have licked it. This is done to ensure that he went to the toilet, otherwise without such a massage, he can not do it.

Much attention is paid to the hygiene of a small cat. In artificial-fed cats, immune protection is weakened, so the litter is changed regularly, the bottle and nipple (syringe, pipette) are sterilized, just like for an infant. The mixture should be freshly prepared and the same temperature as the body of the kitten.

Nutrition kitten older than a month

From the fifth week of the baby's life, you can begin to expand his diet. Ideally, the lure should be prepared independently, but canned mashed potatoes for children up to one year will also work. A prerequisite will be the absence in the purchase of food sugar, salt, onion and garlic. All of these ingredients are extremely harmful four-paw.

1. The first is introduced into the diet of meat puree. It is better if it is from beef or veal. If mashed poultry meat, then we must make sure that in its composition was not skin. It is too fat for the weak digestion of the baby. The same goes for pork.
2. Since the month, it is very useful to give a little liver. First, the one that is prepared industrially from a jar, and then raw, scalded with boiling water.
3. Already from six weeks you can begin to introduce into the kitten’s food a children's cottage cheese, but of low fat content and without various fruit and vegetable additives, as well as salt and sugar. With kefir and ryazhenka it’s better to wait until the fifth month of the baby’s life, at an earlier age they can provoke diarrhea in a cat. Milk can be given from the age of three months on an animal. Cow - bred in a ratio of two to one, goat - one to one.
4. Also, from six weeks you can try to give the kitten fish puree. It is better if these are marine and oceanic varieties of fish. From six months it is possible to switch to scalded fish, and from the year completely to raw. A prerequisite will be the absence of bones, fins and scales in the fish. It is better to never give freshwater fish raw; in it often live parasites, with which the cat easily becomes infected.
5. From the month you can begin to feed the baby porridge. Buckwheat and rice should be chosen for this purpose. You need to cook in milk without adding salt and sugar. Ready porridge should be crushed in a blender.
6. In no case should you give a kitten products such as sausages, wieners, sausages. There is also no need to give food from your table; it contains sugar and salt, which destroy the animal’s skeleton and overload its liver and kidneys.

Thus, a kitten can be easily fed with baby food. Just be careful to buy a mixture or mashed potatoes for feeding.

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