My 4yr old male is on Purina One Urinary Tract Health food and I give the kitten the Purina One for Kittens, but he insists on eating the older cat's food....Is it ok?
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most likely it's not going to be harmful for him, but kitten food has nutrients that babies need. try feeding them seperately, in different rooms with doors closed. take the adults food away when he's finished eating it.
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lol yes its ok just put a little bit of water on it so it could be a little softer for his teeth. nothing will happen :)
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The reason your cat is on this type of food is beecause you were feeding dry foods in the first place. Yhe system needs water and all cats should be on a healthy canned diet Nutrition since there are so many bad things out there is very important to your cat’s health Contrary to what you may have heard; dry foods are not a great thing to feed a cat. Please read the label on what you are feeding? What are the ingredients? Do you know what they mean? Is the first ingredient a muscle meat like chicken or meal or other things? http://www.catinfo.org/#Learn_How_To_Read_a_Pet_Food_Ingredient_Label Dry foods are the number 1 cause of diabetes in cats as well as being a huge contributing factor to kidney disease, obesity, crystals, u.t.i’s and a host of other problems. Food allergies are very common when feeding dry foods. Rashes, scabs behind the tail and on the chin are all symptoms The problems associated with Dry food is that they are loaded with carbohydrates which many cats (carnivores) cannot process them. Also, Most of the moisture a cat needs is suppose to be in the food but in Dry, 95% of it is zapped out of dry foods in the processing. Another thing, most use horrible ingredients and don't use a muscle meat as the primary ingredient and use vegetable based protein versus animal. Not good for an animal that has to eat meat to survive. You want to pick a canned food w/o gravy (gravy=carbs) that uses a muscle meat as the first ingredient and doesn't have corn at least in the first 3 ingredients if at all. Fancy feast is a middle grade food with 9lives, friskies whiskas lower grade canned and wellness and merrick upper grade human quality foods. The optimum food to feed cats has no grains whatsoever, cats have no use for them and many have trouble processing them as well as the carbs. IBD is another disease that is rapidly becoming common amoung cats because of the inappropriate diets being fed. Also, dry food is not proven to be better for teeth. Does a hard pretzel clean your teeth or do pieces of it get stuck? http://www.felinefuture.com/nutrition/bpo_ch4a.php Please read about cat nutrition. http://www.newdestiny.us/nutritionbasics.html http://www.catinfo.org/feline_obesity.htm http://maxshouse.com/feline_nutrition.htm#Dry_Food_vs_Canned_Food.__Which_is_reall
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Eating adult cat food won't harm your kitten, my kitten used to like adult cat food only.
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Yes it wont hurt the kitten if anything it may help his Urinary Tract. You just might want to add some kitten food to the mix of cat food for the kitten and add a little water to soften up the food for his little teeth.
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hi, kitten food only has a little more protein than adult food no extra vitamins and minerals (i did a lot of research and talking to my vet, my kitten was eating adult food by the time he was 12 weeks old and he is now 9 months and weighs in at 5kg). i agree with ken about feeding dry food it is like us eating junk food 24/7. try feeding purina tinned or pouched food as cats get most of their water from the food they eat. dry food is known to cause urinary tract health problems including those ment for urinary tract health. i know this from my old cat (who had kidney failure) she was on purina one urinary tract health and it actually made no difference and my then vet said it was what caused the problem in the first place. at one point in time there was no dry food or kitten food but there was tinned food and bothadult cats and kittens ate the same.
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i had the same problem with my kitten. he was always eating my older cats food. I decided to stop giving him kitten food. and it has done him no harm. My kitten even eats my dogs food.
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it wont harm him but the kitten one is best to help them grow
9 :
no it can make the kitten sick
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