Food For A Kitten?!?!

Klause · Apr 25, 2019

I’m planning on becoming a kitten mom again soon! I want to prepare for expenses and looking for suggestions of food.
I’m doing wet food as much as possible as I feel that is best.
But I will need dry food for some days as well.

Any suggestions for a quality GRAIN-FREE cat food for kittens? I can’t afford a lot, but i want as high as quality as I can get.

Thank you!

Furballsmom · Apr 25, 2019

Hi!
I don't have kittens but this might help you;

CatFoodDB's Best Kitten Foods

EmersonandEvie · Apr 25, 2019

Can you give a budget you have in mind? And info about the kitten (age/are they fixed/maybe a photo or two

)?

Klause · Apr 25, 2019

EmersonandEvie said:
Can you give a budget you have in mind? And info about the kitten (age/are they fixed/maybe a photo or two )?

I don’t have them yet. But planning on adopting soon! Just want to get my ducks in a row.

I’m planning on 3 months old or so and two boys or a boy and a girl. Whatever finds me will be the right answer!

Budget is about $100 a month or so. Could go to $120 if needed.

Will definitely post pics when I get them!

EmersonandEvie · Apr 25, 2019

All of these links are from Chewy, but feel free to shop around!

I had Dexter on Nature's Variety Instinct Kitten Food during the day while we were at work. I would recommend this kitten food. I like the protein and fat levels, and it had the highest amount of DHA in any kitten food I could find.

https://www.chewy.com/instinct-by-natures-variety-original/dp/149476

He ate Fancy Feast Kitten pates or really any food labeled "all life stages." He did extremely well on the FF Kitten and it was a good food while he was eating like a machine during his growth spurts. He is still technically a kitten (his birthday is estimated to be sometime in August or July) but we no longer free feed due to a. him getting chunky ( :paperbag:

) and b. our other adult cats (who are schedule-fed) eating his food.

https://www.chewy.com/fancy-feast-tender-feast-variety-pack/dp/185228

The brands that I feed my cats are:

Fancy Feast
Tiny Tiger
Only Natural Pet's Rabbit and Pork (this line is good, but peas are higher up on the ingredient list than I like to see)
American Journey (occasionally)
Redbarn lamb
Abound/4Health Grain-Free Chicken and Whitefish

AND REMEMBER: a food is ONLY good if your cat will actually eat it!!!

lisahe · Apr 25, 2019

EmersonandEvie said:
AND REMEMBER: a food is ONLY good if your cat will actually eat it!!!

This is so true! I think my best advice would be not to stock up too much on anything, lest the kittens not like it!

Be prepared, too, that kittens eat a lot so it's good you're thinking now about expenses, K Klause . It sounds like you've had kittens before but I mentioned that because when we adopted our two cats at ten months I'd totally forgotten how much young cats eat! That and their activity (which was constant and really fun!) came as something of a surprise. (Even though it shouldn't have!)

I don't really have many food suggestions other than to go for high-calorie foods that are labelled either for kittens of "all life stages." Our cats (now six!) still like Wellness Core kitten food a lot.