Switching food with a 9 week old bengal

I just rescued a 9 week old bengal kitten last night from someone off of Craigslist and need some advice on how to feed him. The previous owners left me roughly 2.5 lbs of the cat food he had been eating, but they couldn't remember what it was called, just that it was supposedly organic and high protein. It looked way to big to be kitten food, but he ate it with no problems and acted like a happy, healthy, high energy kitten.

Today i bought him Blue Buffalo Wilderness for kittens and have been mixing it with the old food. He loves it so much he picks it out and eats it first. I feel bad feeding him the old food at all but i know how easy it is to upset their stomachs with a new food too fast. My problem now is what do i do when i run out of the old food in a day or two? I know that's not going to be enough time for his stomach to adjust to the new food and i don't want him to get diarrhea.

I am also unsure exactly how much to feed and how often. The feeding instructions on the bag start at 5 lbs and he can't be much more than 2 lbs if even that. He is so little! I don't understand why the breeder sold him off so young. Normally they wait 12 weeks before they let them leave mom and siblings.

Any and all advice is appreciated!

If the old food is almost finished and you dont know the brand, it cant be helped, you must go on with something else, and hope for the best.  Perhaps try and find some probiotic-alike to soothen out if you think he has a sensitive stomach..   Kitten food or possibly high end adult food, like Orijen.

Human probiotics are OK as soother.  Goat milk is good and mild too.  He isnt too old for kmr either, some good type.

Dosages?  Kittens are growing, and they move and play much.  So they can eat essentially as much as they want.  Thus, they shall also have as much as they want.

BUT.  If you look into new brands, look into wet canned food.  In the long run it is better than dry food.

Btw, if the old food was both organic and high in protein, it was surely qood quality, as far as dry food goes.  You shall look into foods of high animal contend, much proteins and fat.

9 weeks eh?  So probably a BYB-breeder.  Did you got suitable papers for him? Pedigree certificate and so?  With which association?

Last.  Bengals are usually lively. His and yours life will be easier if he has a pal to play, run and wrestle with.   Make sure the pal is to a lively cat, no lay-in-couch-lover.  

Good luck!

I had assumed that about the breeder, the owners said they could get the papers if I wanted them, along with the veterinary records and pictures of the parents of the kitten. I'm supposed to be getting this later today, but I've had my suspicions that he was either not pure breed or the breeder wasn't licensed. I won't mind if he's not pure, we were just looking for a new kitty for our home since we lost both of our cats earlier this year and I've owned a certified bengal before so i feel like i know i can handle him.

I will ask our vet about probiotics.

So does that mean we should just leave a bowl of dry food for him out all day? A vet tech told me wet food would make his stool softer and isn't as good for his teeth.

If purebred isnt really important for you, you can of course skip the papers.

But if there ARE papers, it is of course nice to have them. The kitten has right to his legacy, to his heirlon (correct english??).

Otherwise forget this about him bengal, and be happy about your beautiful tabby.   

Yes, nothing wrong with free feeding. Having dry it is very convenient, the biggest plus with dry.

Im not ironic, my own residents dont like wet, so we willy nilly use dry for them, trying to give high end brands.  Free feeding.  -  Although when they were kittens, they got portions.  I remember so well, our younger did ate his portion, after it he ate his dads, the massive big studs portion, and after it he meowed for more.  He got to be a big kitten (not fat), but was a small lean stud when adult.  Now as senior citizen he got some tummy. His father, the ex massive stud, is the lean one, still quite masculine although spayed 10 years ago.   

  My residents are Russian Blue.

 I got convinced for wet, when I helped with translation proof reading - into swedish with the main article  from here:   www.catinfo.org .

WildBengal said:

A vet tech told me wet food would make his stool softer and isn't as good for his teeth.

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Neither of these is true. Here are some good articles by vets on feline nutrition.

http://www.littlebigcat.com/nutrition/why-dry-food-is-bad-for-cats-and-dogs/

http://www.littlebigcat.com/health/does-dry-food-clean-the-teeth/

http://healthypets.mercola.com/sites/healthypets/archive/2012/02/17/dry-food-wrong-for-cats.aspx

http://www.catinfo.org/docs/DrZoran.pdf