Hello
I have a question. I can't get my kitten to drink. If I put plain milk down, he will lap up a little bit, but not a lot, water or watered down milk is completley ignored. It's not that much of a problem if I work early shifts, as my daughter feeds him before school at 9am and I am back by about 4:30pm, but if I work "normal" shifts, we leave the house by 9am and aren't back before 6:30pm, so I would like to leave some dry food out, for little hunger pangs. He is only 9 weeks old, so I would think he needs more than just 2-3 feeds a day, and he is always starving when we get home. I have tried to feed him wet food in the morning and evening and leave some dry out for day and night time snacks, but the water bowl is still untouched, and I don't like giving too much milk (and it's not like he drinks much of it anyway...if I give him half a cup, most of it stays untouched).
What can I do regarding his feeds ? (and no, it wasn't my idea to get a kitten with both of us out of the house most of the time.... I wanted a cat of at least 10 years of age, but the cat shelter refused me, as we cannot fit a cat-flap and the cat can only have "assisted" access to the garden.....)
I have a question. I can't get my kitten to drink. If I put plain milk down, he will lap up a little bit, but not a lot, water or watered down milk is completley ignored. It's not that much of a problem if I work early shifts, as my daughter feeds him before school at 9am and I am back by about 4:30pm, but if I work "normal" shifts, we leave the house by 9am and aren't back before 6:30pm, so I would like to leave some dry food out, for little hunger pangs. He is only 9 weeks old, so I would think he needs more than just 2-3 feeds a day, and he is always starving when we get home. I have tried to feed him wet food in the morning and evening and leave some dry out for day and night time snacks, but the water bowl is still untouched, and I don't like giving too much milk (and it's not like he drinks much of it anyway...if I give him half a cup, most of it stays untouched).
What can I do regarding his feeds ? (and no, it wasn't my idea to get a kitten with both of us out of the house most of the time.... I wanted a cat of at least 10 years of age, but the cat shelter refused me, as we cannot fit a cat-flap and the cat can only have "assisted" access to the garden.....)