How and how to feed the kittens

Your cat has just given birth to several charming babies. But it so happened that she can not feed them with her milk. The reasons for such circumstances may be several:

1. The cat died during childbirth.
2. Because of the inflammation of the mammary glands of your pet (mastitis).
3. The cat turned out to be a "cuckoo": gave birth and just tossed the kids.
4. The kittens turned out to be too much, and the tailed mother with them simply can not cope.

Regardless of the reason, many newcomers in the cat's business immediately panic and start running around the familiar, feverishly asking the same questions like: "What to feed the newborn kittens?" Or "How to feed kittens?". While the unlucky owner asks people who do not understand this, the kittens are starving. And he simply does not think of asking specialists.

What you need to feed the kittens

Let's start from a very early age, when kittens are only 1-2 days old. They look like this at this age:

It's clear that such crumbs drink only mother's milk and do not eat solid food, so the question of how to feed the kittens is especially relevant. Children themselves will not drink from a saucer. And milk them follows from a small nipple, a syringe without a needle or a pipette, such as in the drawings.

Diet and frequency of feeding of kittens

The question of how to feed the kittens is settled. Now we are going through the following problem: what should they give at this age? If the kittens are completely deprived of the mother, then the most ideal option is to find a feeding cat for them. Then you do not need the above tools, because the stepmother can do it by herself. But if there is no way to find kittens for a nursing cat, then their mother will have to become you. It's mother, and not just a wet nurse. It will be necessary to sit with them for days and nights, wipe their feces and urine with a napkin, warm them ... But this is not what this is about. The most important in this period is frequent and full feeding. So, how and how to feed the kittens?

First, let's talk about the frequency of feeding. The first half day of life kittens eat round-the-clock. Since that time and until the third month of their life, babies need to be fed every 2-3 hours, not excluding night time. "Much too much!" - Probably, you will think. Objection: no, not too much. Kittens grow, they need more nutrients. Until the fourth week they should be fed from the nipple / syringe / pipette until they have milk teeth. Then they can be quietly disaccustomed to a pipette and offer them food on a silver platter. In 4-5 months, the frequency of nutrition can be reduced to five times a day. And in 9 months - and at all up to 3-4 times.

Now we will discuss the topic "How can you feed the kittens?". While they are not 4 weeks old, you can buy a substitute for cat milk in a pet store . If they do not tolerate cow's milk, it can be replaced with dry mixtures for infants: NAN, Nutrilon, etc.

The kittens turned 1 month old. With a substitute and dry mixes, you can switch to regular milk and liquid semolina porridge, it is also helpful to give the kids a boiled and mashed egg yolk.

2 months. To the previous diet, you need to add calcined cottage cheese, soft cheese and a little scooped boiled meat.

3 rd month. The same menu, only now porridge it is necessary to prepare a normal consistency, and meat to submit cubes. In addition, it is recommended to add kefir, grated carrots and mashed boiled fish.

4th month. In the diet are added grated vegetables and sliced greens with vegetable oil.

5+ months. The same, but you can enter in the diet pieces of rye bread or croutons from it. From this moment, kittens are allowed any sour-milk products and raw meat.

That's all the food. If you want the kittens to eat store food, then feed them with those that are intended for them. From the second month they can be given food for adult cats.