I have three kittens. Two of them weigh 1.5 pounds, one weighs 1 pound (a pretty big difference!) They were all found together on the street very young with no mommy, so we assume they are the same age, same litter. They are about 6 weeks. oooh and we got them weighed at the vets.
Snowball is the "runt" I guess. He seems as if he is developing slower than the other ones and weighs a lot less! Should I be worried.
Right now I am feeding them actual meals 2 times a day, 12 hours apart. Each meal consists of .6 oz of kitten canned science diet food, a teaspoon of 2nd step and some dry kitten food mixed in.
The woman who found them had been feeding them twice a day and I wanted to keep them on schedule. They have never cried for food but because I worry about their development, how fast they are growing, (people recommend feeding kittens 3-4 times a day, etc. Hubby and I have been having "training" sessions with cooked chicken at random times throughout the day 2-3x. At these sessions we train 1 kitty at a time (to come to name, etc.) for a 5 minute interval. We break the cooked chicken into tiny little pieces and they are fed I don't know how many ounces but a substancial snack each time.
Snowball eats slower than the other ones. I have been giving him less dry food and a bit more canned food in his meals (because it is hard for him to eat dry food - so only 3-4 pieces for him) -sometimes he will eat it, sometimes he won't.
If anyone read all this, thank you. My question is......... should we give him a third substancial meal a day in another room that the other kitties don't have.
Should we even worry about the weight difference?
What do you think. Otherwise he is a seemingly healthy little kitty.
Snowball is the "runt" I guess. He seems as if he is developing slower than the other ones and weighs a lot less! Should I be worried.
Right now I am feeding them actual meals 2 times a day, 12 hours apart. Each meal consists of .6 oz of kitten canned science diet food, a teaspoon of 2nd step and some dry kitten food mixed in.
The woman who found them had been feeding them twice a day and I wanted to keep them on schedule. They have never cried for food but because I worry about their development, how fast they are growing, (people recommend feeding kittens 3-4 times a day, etc. Hubby and I have been having "training" sessions with cooked chicken at random times throughout the day 2-3x. At these sessions we train 1 kitty at a time (to come to name, etc.) for a 5 minute interval. We break the cooked chicken into tiny little pieces and they are fed I don't know how many ounces but a substancial snack each time.
Snowball eats slower than the other ones. I have been giving him less dry food and a bit more canned food in his meals (because it is hard for him to eat dry food - so only 3-4 pieces for him) -sometimes he will eat it, sometimes he won't.
If anyone read all this, thank you. My question is......... should we give him a third substancial meal a day in another room that the other kitties don't have.
Should we even worry about the weight difference?
What do you think. Otherwise he is a seemingly healthy little kitty.
