I live in Japan with my 5 month old kitten Aya that I rescued off the street.
Over the last few months I've been finding that the choices in cat food here are very -ahem- limited and in specialised 'kitten' food almost non-existant.
Would it be okay to feed her wet adult food as long as she's getting dry kitten food?
Dry choices are Science Diet, Royal Canin or Iams, possibly Purina Cat Chow.
Right now she's eating SD and Purina kitten mixed, and loves it. I've never had a cat that loved Iams so I haven't bothered trying...
Wet kitten food here there are only 2 or 3 choices. Most wet cat food is simply shredded tuna or other fish packed in a can with juice or aspic, sometimes there are even little baby eels on top (Japan go figure...) Friskies seem to have liscenced its brand name to produce this kind of kitten food. she loves tuna but has recently gone off her wet food and I'm thinking it might be too much fish (This is Japan and of course people here think there's no such thing as too much fish, even pregnant women eat sushi!).
The only 'western' style wet food is Science diet kitten. Sheba or Purina Mon Petit are also available. Only the SD sells kitten specific food, and its the pate style and she's not crazy about it (would rather eat dry).
The fancy pet store had oraganic Wellness and Varrah cans (adult not kitten). The Varrah chicken made her puke twice (I tossed it). And both are about 250-300yen per can. Or about 3 bucks. I think they are imported and am not sure about the freshness and with the cost I'm not sure I'll be getting that again.
Aya is real skinny, very active and eats like a horse. And right now given my choices I'm leaning toward continuing to give her the SD and Purina kitten dry plus a can of Mon petit adult every other day, which seems to be as often as she'll devour wet food.
Over the last few months I've been finding that the choices in cat food here are very -ahem- limited and in specialised 'kitten' food almost non-existant.
Would it be okay to feed her wet adult food as long as she's getting dry kitten food?
Dry choices are Science Diet, Royal Canin or Iams, possibly Purina Cat Chow.
Right now she's eating SD and Purina kitten mixed, and loves it. I've never had a cat that loved Iams so I haven't bothered trying...
Wet kitten food here there are only 2 or 3 choices. Most wet cat food is simply shredded tuna or other fish packed in a can with juice or aspic, sometimes there are even little baby eels on top (Japan go figure...) Friskies seem to have liscenced its brand name to produce this kind of kitten food. she loves tuna but has recently gone off her wet food and I'm thinking it might be too much fish (This is Japan and of course people here think there's no such thing as too much fish, even pregnant women eat sushi!).
The only 'western' style wet food is Science diet kitten. Sheba or Purina Mon Petit are also available. Only the SD sells kitten specific food, and its the pate style and she's not crazy about it (would rather eat dry).
The fancy pet store had oraganic Wellness and Varrah cans (adult not kitten). The Varrah chicken made her puke twice (I tossed it). And both are about 250-300yen per can. Or about 3 bucks. I think they are imported and am not sure about the freshness and with the cost I'm not sure I'll be getting that again.
Aya is real skinny, very active and eats like a horse. And right now given my choices I'm leaning toward continuing to give her the SD and Purina kitten dry plus a can of Mon petit adult every other day, which seems to be as often as she'll devour wet food.