How To Get A Kitten To Start Eating Solid Food

Don t use the cow s milk you drink or you ll likely end up with sick kittens on your hands.

How to get a kitten to start eating solid food. You want to keep everything relatively soft for the first while because their teeth are so tiny and fragile. However this can vary depending on factors such as the ratio of dry to canned food in their diet. Food made especially for kittens is higher in protein and calcium.

Determine if the kitten is old enough for solid foods. Other kitten weaning tips. Kittens in general start to eat solid food when aged 4 to 6 weeks.

The teeth should be fully emerged not just lightly poking through the. As the kitten gets accustomed to eating gradually decrease the amount of milk replacer you add while slowly increasing the amount of kitten food. Then let the kitten eat as much as it wants.

Alternatively put some food on the tip of your finger which your kitten may be more likely to approach. By now the kitten weaning process is complete and they should be eating all solid food by week seven. When should kittens start eating wet food.

Completely weaned are kittens when they are 12 weeks old if we humans allow the mother cat to wean her kittens the natural way. Now you can start to leave out small amounts of dry food and fresh water at all times. By five to six weeks he should be eating only lightly moistened food.

As a general guideline kittens should be fed 2 4 times a day. If you try to force it to start eating solid food it just get s scared and would take even longer to start. In the beginning you ll need to feed your kitten 4 to 5 times.