Perhaps you have a squeaking small lump. He often begins to demand food and attention from you. His nutrition must be taken very responsibly - the health and life of the baby directly depends on the composition of the feed, on the components used.
How to feed a small kitten in 1 month left without a cat
The age of the baby 1 month is the right time for the first lure. The baby still sucks the cat’s milk, but gradually begins to get used to solid food. Even when feeding an orphan, you can raise him to his feet with the help of the following tips.
At this age, it is important for a kitten to drink milk, 2/5 diluted with boiled water. Use cream or goat milk for this, or purchase a special mixture based on milk - it can be found in any pet store. Do not forget to give plain water too.
There are several foods that need to be gradually added to the diet:
• Let your baby try different dairy products - low fat sour cream, kefir, sugar-free yogurt, fermented baked milk and yogurt.
• Gradually start feeding rare milk porridge, on very finely ground grits, it is convenient to boil it on semolina. Milk intended for porridge is also diluted with water - approximately 1/3.
• You can add cottage cheese, cool-boiled yolk to the food of a monthly kitten. You can not give food with salt or sugar, cottage cheese can be given only low-fat. You can feed the yolk with cottage cheese or separately. But you can’t give it much - it’s permissible to give the yolk to kittens no more than 1-2 times a week!
• You can once a week cook a baby soup without salt and seasoning with finely ground meat. The soup should resemble a meat broth or thin slurry, sometimes chopped vegetables are added to it.
• Baby food in jars of fish or meat is a great lure for these crumbs.
Little by little, start letting them try regular meat, it must first be grated or scraped very finely. Be sure to cook it or pour over boiling water, but you can’t fry it! Add lean beef, rabbit or chicken to the diet; pork should never be given. It contains a lot of fat for adult cats, and even more so for a kitten’s ventricle. Only boiled sea fish can be given.
It is important to understand not only what to give the kitten, but also how to do it:
• Orphan, you need to feed milk from the horn, it can be purchased at the pet store. You can use a pipette or syringe without a needle;
• It is necessary to “introduce” kittens to unfamiliar food, for example, giving them liquid porridge for the first time, you just need to dip your finger in it and let the baby lick it. If he cannot figure out what needs to be done, then anoint his face with this porridge, he will begin to lick it and try it.
• After the kitten begins to eat porridge, adjust how much he will eat per day, you can not give a lot;
• It is necessary to spread porridge over a shallow bowl with a thin layer, otherwise the baby may choke;
• Any unfamiliar products must be introduced into the diet gradually - at first no more than once every 2 days. This approach will reduce the risk of allergies and if it is detected, quickly find the cause of the trouble;
• Ensure that clean and fresh water is always available. It is not enough just to pour stagnant water - the bowl must be washed well;
• If the baby does not have a mother, then you will have to massage his tummy. This procedure is performed 15 minutes after eating with fingertips. Massage will enable the kitten to empty the bladder and intestines on time.
If the kitten does not want to eat unusual food, try to take a very small piece and put it in your mouth. Make sure the food is free of spices and room temperature. Maybe he will not like one of the products, in this case, carefully "introduce" him to another. If the baby refuses any food - immediately show it to the doctor in the clinic.
To feed a kitten without a cat for up to 4 months, it is necessary in 3-4 hours, in a day you have to give it, eat 5-6 times. Because of their small stomach, kittens are not able to digest large amounts of food, for this reason they eat little, but often.
What not to give a kitten in 1 month
It is important not to feed the baby from your table, "human" food contains many spices, which are very harmful even to adult animals. For cats, chocolate is a real poison, do not give them sweets in any case, even if asked.
From meat food, you can’t feed meat with turkey, duck, goose, rams and pigs, you can not give any river fish, pollock and capelin. The meat from this bird and animals contains a lot of fat, and fish can cause an infectious disease or lead to infection by worms.
It is unacceptable to add fatty, spicy, fried, smoked, salty and sweet dishes to the diet. This also applies to sausages (sausage) and canned goods intended for humans. This will cause chronic diseases, metabolic disorders and gastrointestinal upset.
You can’t feed bones and offal, cats are not able to gnaw bones - their animals gnaw. Small and sharp bones can injure the esophagus or the animal may choke, and the baby may die from this.
It is unacceptable to introduce legumes into the feed, they can not be properly digested, which leads to fermentation and swelling of the digestive tract. This applies to potatoes - it can cause upsets in cats.
When feeding a kitten 1 month left without a cat, don’t even think about the different “Whale chum salmon”, “Friskis” and “Whiskey”, they have absolutely no meat, they include only flour from cheap low-quality offal - bones, internal organs, beaks. The composition of the feed intended for cats does not have the necessary vitamins, but they add a lot of flavors that affect the body like a drug.
As you can see, there are a huge number of little things when drawing up the right diet for a baby who is left without a mother.
