Hairballs/Kitten Food?

Question

my kitten is finally getting to the stage where he's cleaning himself more...does this mean the hairballs will start coming...also...how old does he need to be before i can switch to an adult catfood

Answer 1

4-6 months is a good time frame to go to adult food. Give him a finger tip full of vaseline couple times a week to help with hairballs. That works just as well as those spendy hairball malts at the petshops.

Answer 2

I have had six cats for 14 years. One has hairballs. Those yucky wet things are NOT inevitable.

I have seen and been around a lot of kittens in shelters doing adoptions and have never seen a kitten throw up a hairball.

If you feed your kitten grocery store food you will have all sorts of problems. I was just doing my shopping this morning and out of curiosity I checked the ingredient list on about five bags of heavily advertised cat food. Three had corn as the first ingredient. The others had corn or corn gluten meal as two of the first three ingredients. If you feed this stuff to your kitten it will have problems and your kitten will be poorly nourished in the bargain.
Corn is used to fatten slaughter animals who have at most a two-year life span. It is not an appropriate food for a cat or a dog.

Meat protein is the natural food for a cat. The expensive brands usually have two good sources of meat protein as the first ingredients in their cat food. The third will be a filler such as brown rice or peas.

You can use these foods now for a kitten. Do you think the mother cat brings her kittens special "kitten mice" when she weans them? They go straight from her milk to the raw meat which is what they were evolved to eat.

Go to a small owner-operated pet store. The people there really care about selling the best possible food for the animals. The store where I buy my food will not carry Science Diet because they feel it so bad even though they get constant requests for it.

Answer 3

Your kitten should stay on kitten food until his teeth and mouth develop so that he is able to chew it, about a year. If he does get fur balls, they are very easy to take care of with a hairball remedy gel that you can buy at any pet store or department. The gel usually tastes good to the cat and you simply put it on his paw so that he has no choice but to lick it off.

Answer 4

Purina has a cat food called "Purina Indoor" and it is in green bag that you can buy at Wal-mart. It has hairball medicine in it to help. Now that I use it my cat maybe throws up a hairball once every two weeks, Used to be daily with his old food.

Answer 5

I like Italian food the best :)