what is the best food to feed your new kitten.i am using eukanuba right now?

Answer 1

I think that you should feed your cat small porchains of
soft cat food.
but it is up to you.

Answer 2

I'm assuming the kitten is old enough to be eating rather than feeding off it's mother?

If that's the case, then you should serve a good canned food. You may choose any from the What to feed link.

Don't worry that these are not marketed as "kitten" foods. That's a meaningless distinction. So long as you follow the feeding guidelines recommended on the food, your kitten will thrive.

Answer 3

Eukanuba is a good food, but it isnt the very best quality. It will work fine though. We found our kitten on the street, and started feeding her Iams kitten food, sprayed with water to make it softer and increase her water intake. She was a happy and healthy kitten. If you want a really good quality food, I reccomend Wellness Kitten Food. Also for a treat, I would give your kitten a can of wet food every now and then.

Answer 4

High quality foods have high levels of meat, low levels of grains, and are made with ingredients that the USDA certified as human grade. (Many popular brands including Eukanuba, Iams, and Science Diet contain excess grains, large amounts of by-products, and are not made with human grade ingredients.)

Some brands of high quality cat foods include: Wellness, Innova (especially Innova EVO and Wellness Core, as they contains no grains), Natural Balance, Felidae, Nature's Variety, Healthwise, California Natural, Solid Gold, Fromm, and Newman's Own.

You're more likely to find high quality foods at small and independent pet stores. If you're having trouble locating a store with these foods, perform a quick Google search and find the company's website; most pet food companies have store locaters on their sites that can point you in the direction of a store that carries their product based on your zip code.

The foods I listed here are brands that manufacture kibble and canned food. Personally I do not believe that you can receive optimal nutrition from a bag...it's kind of like us eating nothing but dry Total cereal. Many pre-made raw food diets are available for cats. My personal favorite is Nature's Menu because it's not full of vegetables like a lot of the other brands (when was the last time you saw a cat munching on spinach?) Ideally I would feed my cats 100% homemade raw, however, I'm in college and right now feeding my 7 cats raw isn't feasible. Innova EVO is the basis for my cats' diet and the cats who will eat raw also recieve Nature's Menu raw turkey and chicken and raw chicken necks.

Answer 5

Dry food does not clean teeth as it shatters on impact. It is the same as you eating dry beakfast cereal or potato chips. Do these items feel asif they clean your teeth? Absolutely not. Also, our pet cats are descended from desert dwellinb cats and are designed to get the bulk of their moisture (water) from their prey. Dry kibble is woefully low in moisture. Cats fed dry food only are in a constant state of dehydration which will lead to kidney problems. Dry food also puts cats at higher risk for obesity, diabetes, periodontal disease (the teeth not getting cleaned), clogged anal sacs, and other problems.

Also, in nature, there is no such thing as "kitten food" other than the mother's milk. They go from milk to meat, simple as that.

Science Diet, Iams, and Eukanuba are all crap. Naturally, the grocerie store brands below those are all super crap. Get a better brand such as Newman's Own, Organix, Wellness, California Natural or Prowl which is a dehydrated meal you add water to made by Honest Kitchen. The kibble should have some sort of meat as the first ingredient ie "chicke" as oppposed to "chicken meal", etc. Avoid fish flavored foods, fish aren't a natural part of a cat's diet and fish flavored kibbles have been known to cause kidney stones in some cats. Canned salmon, mackerel, sardines, or fresh raw fish on occasion are okay. Make at leat one meal canned food. Don't free-feed (leave food out all of the time) cats aren't designed for this and they are more likely to become obese, and don't mix raw meat w/ kibble b/c the kibble digests at a slower rate than the meat and may cause stomach upset. If you're going to do kibble and raw, do them as 2 separate meals. Your kitten should get 3 meals a day until at least 5 mos old.

Pleas read these links:
http://www.rawfed.com/dental.html
http://www.mercola.com/2005/feb/5/pets_grains.htm
http://k9joy.com/dogarticles/dogfood01grain.pdf
http://www.rawfedcats.org

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http://www.ahealthierpet.com

Answer 6

For a complete and balanced diet feed your kitten either Eukanuba / Iams / Hills Science Diet / Advance dry food with the occasional RAW chicken wing / neck or Hills Prescription t/d for dental health.
Make your life easy and avoid canned food which is 80% water (total waste of money), causes gastro upsets and or skin allergies in majority of cats. Do not give milk - they don't need it and causes gastrointestinal upsets.
Do not feed the prepackaged mince and meats you can get from supermarket as they are full of sulphur and preservatives (if they say no preservatives then how does it stay soo fresh? Salt!)

Answer 7

I work at a cat shelter and we feed Iams and Eukanuba kitten mixed. The kittens love it and the diarrhea is way less. The more expensive brands that are more meat based tend to cause diarrhea more often.
If it is working, stick with it.
Avoid canned if the kitten is eating dry.

We switch them to Iams/Eukanuba adult at 4-5 months...depending on the size. Keeping them on kitten food for a full year usually results in FAT cats.

Answer 8

My vet suggested Iams Kitten Chow (in the purple bag). Eukanuba is a good brand too. Just make sure that you feed her KITTEN food until she's at least a year old, and don't change her food suddenly -- pick one and stick with it. You might ask her prior owners what they used.

If you do decide to change her food, do it gradually (a little new food mixed in with the old, then gradually increase it until it's all new food over the course of at LEAST one week) or she'll get horrible diarrhea.

Answer 9

Eukanuba is a very reputable brand.

And dry food is good for a pet's teeth.

Answer 10

feed at litter cat food . and cat milk