I had been feeding my kitten (now 9 weeks or so) wet food up until now. However, in order to give her free-access to wet-food, I had to leave some portion sitting out in her bowl. It ended up that some wet-food sat out for hours until she ate it.
My dog likes to eat most of his wetfood, but leave a small portion to come back to later. He's done this for years so we never really thought about any problems arising from it.
However, I read the thread about not leaving wet-food out too long for bacterial reasons. I'll have to get her stool checked the next time she's at the vet to make sure I didn't cause an increase in bad bacteria or parasites by doing this for her.
I was wondering though, now that she's eating dry-food by itself out of a feeder whenever she wants it (and I'm leaving that out indefinitely because I assume dry food is less prone to bacterial growth when used with a feeder?) is it ok to reduce her wetfood feedings to 2 one-session portions a day? I bought her the smaller single serving size cans today to do this with.
So is 2 wet-food feedings a day + free access to dry-food and water enough nutrition for my kitten? It doesn't seem necessary to transition her. I tried mixing in dry food with wet-food earlier last night, but as of the moment, she's going to the dry food feeder and eating straight out of there without a problem.
My dog likes to eat most of his wetfood, but leave a small portion to come back to later. He's done this for years so we never really thought about any problems arising from it.
However, I read the thread about not leaving wet-food out too long for bacterial reasons. I'll have to get her stool checked the next time she's at the vet to make sure I didn't cause an increase in bad bacteria or parasites by doing this for her.
I was wondering though, now that she's eating dry-food by itself out of a feeder whenever she wants it (and I'm leaving that out indefinitely because I assume dry food is less prone to bacterial growth when used with a feeder?) is it ok to reduce her wetfood feedings to 2 one-session portions a day? I bought her the smaller single serving size cans today to do this with.
So is 2 wet-food feedings a day + free access to dry-food and water enough nutrition for my kitten? It doesn't seem necessary to transition her. I tried mixing in dry food with wet-food earlier last night, but as of the moment, she's going to the dry food feeder and eating straight out of there without a problem.
