FEEDING OUR CATS AND KITTENS

This is purely for those of you who will be taking one or more Spiritwind Kittens home and as a general interest piece for anyone else.

We are not saying you must do the same, this is what we feed and something we find works well for us and our felines!

 From birth, our job is (hopefully) easy as mum usually does all the feeding until weaning at approx. 4/5 weeks of age.

 When we start to wean kittens, we usually start with a mix of 'Cimicat' powdered milk food on a 5ml spoon, from which they begin to suck and then lick.

Then we progress to Cimicat and raw minced chicken mashed to a liquid type paste, this is put onto a flat plate, which by this time they can lick from quite easily.

Kittens then eat finely minced raw chicken and bone this is supplemented with Royal Canin Baby Cat kibble. Kittens will still be feeding off mum,
at approx 9 weeks old they start eating finely minced raw chicken, offal and bone with added fish oil and Taurine, again with Royal Canin Baby Cat Kibble,
mum is usually still letting them feed and as long as she is happy to do that, we are happy to let her.
The comfort and extra milk the kittens receive makes for happy healthy babies. 

Kittens staying with us eat Minced whole rabbit and chicken (including offal) with Taurine and Fish oils and according to their food preference will either supplement with Royal Canin or not as they desire.  

Cats being cats they get fed up eating the same food (even if very expensive) so every few weeks we tend to add minced raw beef plus raw salmon into the mix and supplement with a different variety kibble.  

Raw food is given FRESH twice a day. Kibble is available to all the cats and kittens 24/7 and plenty of fresh water in their fountains.

Most of the cats like white fish and grated cheese while some of them especially 'Spiritwind Kashin' loves lightly steamed Broccoli, Swede and Cauliflower. 

We do keep high fat treats to a minimum, but like all cats they are adept at stealing (do I mean finding?) what they want.