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What are some recommendations for kitten wet and dry food? Something easy on the stomach / good for digestion. Currently using Purina chow but it's giving some of the babies upset stomachs.
I second the nomination for Merrick. It's a good food at a reasonable price and as duckpond mentioned, it's readily available. They also have good canned food for all life stages. My cats are grown but are such picky eaters. One food that I keep on hand for those times when they are being ultra fussy is the Fancy Feast canned turkey for kittens. They cannot resist it. It's a pate. Give it a try.I used merrick when i had kittens. They have a great kitten dry food, most pet stores carry it. They can have any wet food, as long as it is for all life stages.
I did feed quite a bit of Merrick kitten, and fancy feast turkey canned food for kittens, as well as royal canin think slices kitten food. How old are they?
How does it work out in the wild? Does the mother lion suddenly start feeding different food when the cub gets to one year's of age? If you compare kitten Vs adult products they're generally identical and the protein and fat content might be slightly different. Kittens have additional needs but they get this from the shear amount of food they eat.Merrick dry was my cat's mainstay growing up, until she got a bit older and I switched to all life stages foods.
kitten food isn't a "gimmick", it has certain nutritional minimums that not all foods meet, so it or an all life stages food (which also meet those standards) should be fed to kittens.
As to dry vs wet, healthy cats who drink well ( which doesn't cover all cats, admittedly) generally do just fine on a high quality dry diet, but cats who drink poorly, have kidney issues, etc. shoudl be fed wet. Likewise, if you cant' afford top end foods (while high end dry foods re equivalent to their wet counterparts, low end ones are indeed much worse)