45 Day Kitten Help!

Hey there!

Just adopted a kitten from a friends house... The mother had 3 kittens, 2 were perfectly striped tiger-like ones, and were adopted really fast. Mine is a girl, which people didn't find "pretty enough". I loved her. She's beautiful!  

Anyways, she was on a dry food diet when I got her, but it was a really bad brand of food. I changed to royal canin KITTEN one   from one day to the next.

She plays normal and she sleeps a lot too.

My concern is she is pooing about 4 or 5 times a day, and they aren't very consistent. The color is a good default brown, and they alternate between a mushy round pile and some worm-shaped mushy poo. She is also vomitting about once a day.. the vomit is a consistent pile of digested food...

Should I be concerned? I'm taking her to the vet this saturday anyways, but, I'm really worried and I don't want to be a neglecting owner!

Any insights would very very appreciated!!

It is nearly certain that what has happened is that, quite simply, you have changed her food too quickly.

Food should ALWAYS be transitioned slowly from the old food (no matter how bad it was) to the new food, over at least a one week period.  The first feeding should contain literally only one or two bites of the new food and all old food, and from there you can proceed to 1/8 new food, 7/8 old food, 1/4 new food and 3/4 old food, 1/2 new food and 1/2 old food, and finally 3/4 new food and 1/4 old food before the final transition.  

This is a common mistake that you've made, though, and no long term harm is likely to be done.  She should clear up within a week or so.  As long as she continues eating, playing, using the litterbox, and getting bigger as normal she will come through this fine.

If you literally JUST switched in the past 24 hours, it may be worth it to switch back to the old food and begin the transition again much more slowly.  However, if it has been over 24 hours it is best at this time to just ride it out.

Congrats on your new addition!

I want to add, this d ry food here has good repution but in the long run, plan on teaching her to eat wet (canned) cat food.

Wet is usually better than dry...

Has she been dewormed?   If not, it should be done.  Although I presume the vet will do it or at least, recommend a suitable dewormer you can get where you live, when you see him at this visit.

We would also be happy to see a couple of pics on her!

Congrats!

Hey thank you both alot! I'll keep my eye open on her activities!

One last question: should I keep leaving her food available all day long? 

And some pics...  

Some people have different thoughts about leaving food available all day. Some  say this allows constant grazing which could lead to obesity. I leave mine all day as my work schedule changes rapidly and I can't keep regular feeding times for her. My previous cat I did this with as well and he was happy and healthy weight until age 16 years.

I, alike Ametyst, beilieve in leaving food for them free.   say, have control over wet food, as it can get bad, but let dry be accessible, so she has something to graze on.

Also, kittens usually do eats a lot.    And she needs to grow into her natural posture, to come into her full natural grace and prettiness.

My guess is, she has an Oriental or modern siamese somewhere among her ancestors.

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