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What are the recommended foods?

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If you are wondering for a kitten then just for a while feed him/her soft food like special cat or kitty food there is dry and soft. First start with soft food for a kitten. If your cat is at least 3 months old then you should start giving your kitten or cat dry food because when they get older if you feed them dry food they will not want to chew on the dry food and swallow it and it might make them vomit. It depends on the cat.

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Cats are strict carnivores, so they get all their nutrient from meat-based Proteins and Fats. They use these two nutrients as their primary source of energy.

The best cat foods are the ones with a very high meat content (labelled as Chicken, Turkey, Tuna, etc.) as the FIRST ingredient with no grains, wheat, or corn. Corns and grains pack the food with carbohydrates, which is essentially cheap filler. Cats are not designed to digest such a high number of carbohydrate (they only need 3-4% of their daily intake) this could lead to the cat vomiting the food back up, overeating (to get enough nutrition) and becoming overweight, diabetic, developing Allergies amongst other things. Saying that, some cats will never have a problem. Unfortunately most dry foods and low-quality wet foods have a lot of grain in them.

The amount of moisture in cat food is also very important. Dry food contains no moisture, so is quite dehydrating. Cats are notoriously bad drinkers, even when they are thirsty. This is because they have evolved to get all their needed moisture from their prey (their ancestors were cats that lived in very dry and arid environments where water was hard to come by), so therefore have a low "thirst drive" and will not often seek out water on their own. This is a trait that has been passed down over the thousands of years.

Canned or pouched food has anywhere between 60 to 80% water. Seeing as in the wild a cat's prey is around 65%-75% water, wet food provides a cat with more than enough water each day.

Lastly, it is not proven dry food cleans a cat's teeth. Kibble is hard and brittle, so shatters at the tips of the teeth - providing little or no cleaning friction. Dental issues usually start under or around the gumline, so kibble is usually ineffective. Some cats don't even chew; they will just swallow the kibble whole. However, some cats will have perfect teeth no matter what food they eat, while others will not benefit at all.

For high-quality Cat food there is: Wellness, EVO, Orijen, Bozita (the canned stuff is 90+% meat and can be bought from zooplus.co.uk), Applaws (70+% meat and comes in both tinned and dry), HiLife (60% meat), to name a few.

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