Hello, we have two 11 week kittens-Cleo and Nelson. We've had them for 3 weeks, and have been feeding them whiskas kitten wet food. We've tried to give them a little dried, and some of hills (vet sample) but they have the odd nibble and nothing else.

The vet suggested we should try and feed them mostly dry food as it's easier, and often more nutritious. I'll still give them some wet food though, for variety.

How should we go about this?

Sorry, but dry food is not more nutritious, convenient maybe, but not better for them. For a start its dry - cats need a lot of moisture in their diet which dry food cannot supply. It means they have to drink lots of water just to try and keep themselves hydrated (which isnt a natural thing for a cat to do). Secondly, all dry foods contain some form of carbohydrate (rice, cereals etc) which cats have no need for in their diet. There are some better dry foods that have low carbs - such as Applaws and Orijen, but dry shouldnt make up the main part of their diet.

High meat content wet foods (at least 60% meat) are much better for them, brands like Hi Life Real Meat/Fish, Natures Menu, Forthglade, Natures Harvest, and Applaws (which does contain small percentage of rice and is not complete).

If they are happy eating wet I wouldnt worry that they don't eat dry.

Dunno. Might be more nutritious than Whiskas.

I would just start mixing in the biscuits to the wet food and gradually give less wet over a period of time until its just biscuit. You can still give them wet every so often as well.

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I agree in that you should feed more wet then dry.

I feed my cats wet food thats 78% moist twice a day. They also get tuna,salmon,beef,pork,chicken,yogurt,ham,turkey, chicken hearts and gibblets.

I also feed them on high quility dry food, that has no meat by products , and low ash chicken. So if u feed them dry i highly suggest high quility its worth the money and ive seen great improvments in my cats.

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my cat is a good example of what ambercat has said.
Neo cant eat dried food as he has nearly died twice of urinary tract infection from not getting enough fluids, he had to have drains put in and drips to save him and then we was advised for a few months he had to have food like felix etc with high water content and we also had to mix water in with it to get lots of fluid down him.
now he can eat very small amounts of dried but for life he must have high fluid meats, for this reason we are keeping our kitten on meat as its awful to see what we see nea go through.

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my vets told me to put my kittys on james wellbeloved as they stoped eating and holly was ill on the other foods i give them chicken and sometime a bit of samon but mostly the james wellbeloved and they love it and they havent came to no harm

100% agree. Whiskas is awful struff too. Hi-life (60% meat) and Natures menu (70% meat) do kitten food. I cant stand dry food with all those crappy fillers.

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My kitties were used to dry food when I got them at 8 weeks - they've now tried lots of stuff - they were rather stinky on the felix so personally I prefer dry as a staple diet, and they do drink lots of water. I was very impressed with Technical - a £10 bag worked out to be the same price pound for pound as the small boxes of cheaper brands, and both the kitties coats look like brushed metal and feel like silk on it. I don't usually mix wet and dry with the kittens as it makes the biscuits soggy, I just alternate and use the wet as a daily treat, plus also other nice nibbles (they love a bit of seafood!).

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