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Title: Kids now have a kitten to play with!
Post by: clipperjay on 31 August 2013, 18:33

Just picked up a kitten all black and very cute green eyes!
Settle down quickly eating, sleeping, weeing and 8 weeks old
Scratching post.
New food and water bowls .
Sleeping basket.
Kitten milk.
Kitten food .
Some kitty litter £6.00 per 5kg I thought it was going to be easy to choose LOL!
Injections 9.5 weeks time with micro chips
Kids named her Ribena.  :smiley:

Anyone with advice on food? owner fed whiskers and milk.
We want to ween off milk for water and use Royal Canin kitten food instead? Suggestions please?

Title: Re: Kids now have a kitten to play with!
Post by: clipperjay on 31 August 2013, 18:49

(http://i202.photobucket.com/albums/aa51/Clipperjay/Ribena/P1030915.jpg)
(http://i202.photobucket.com/albums/aa51/Clipperjay/Ribena/P1030916.jpg)
(http://i202.photobucket.com/albums/aa51/Clipperjay/Ribena/P1030923.jpg)
(http://i202.photobucket.com/albums/aa51/Clipperjay/Ribena/P1030922.jpg)

Title: Re: Kids now have a kitten to play with!
Post by: Jimble on 31 August 2013, 20:22

We use a mixture of wet food like whiskers or felix etc but you should also give them dry food as well as they get terrible tarter build up if they only have wet food, which cause no end of problems! no suggestions really but you'll know if they don't like it! :rolleyes:

I can recommend the cat litter from sainsburys though, it does a great job of hiding the odour and is also really light as opposed to the heavy clay stuff, and don't buy clumping litter as imo it's a bit of a false economy cos it won't last as long as none clumping.

Cute cat btw. :smiley:

Title: Re: Kids now have a kitten to play with!
Post by: clipperjay on 31 August 2013, 20:43

Yeah the clumping is not clumping TBF  :laugh:
We had salmon for dinner and she tried to steal some  :grin: unusual for a cat to like fish, three cats before her disliked fish!
Apparently not uncommon for cats to dislike fish.
Shes gonna be a killer, her mother kills small rabbits for lunch apparently  :evil:
I'll give the Sainssburys ago Jimble!

Title: Re: Kids now have a kitten to play with!
Post by: Booth11 on 01 September 2013, 00:03

She's beautiful  :smiley:

If you moisten the wet food with a little tepid water, it livens the taste and hydrates cat.  We've just switched from Hills science Plan dry food to Royal Canin.  None of my cats (5 in total) like fish but one loves boiled eggs  :huh:

Top tips:

1.  Neutering (if not done already)

2. Pet insurance.  If you haven't already, get her insured.  Look for a policy that offers lifelong cover as many only do a year or have a maximum limit per condition.  Pet Plan do a good choice of cover and price ok. 

Title: Re: Kids now have a kitten to play with!
Post by: Guy on 01 September 2013, 09:25

cute cat... but with claws like that i'd kiss goodbye to your sofas, skin on your hands etc...  :grin:

Title: Re: Kids now have a kitten to play with!
Post by: clipperjay on 01 September 2013, 10:20

Haaa yeah we knew what was installed for us Guy, but hey the toys/scratching post if used all the time, and plus keeping her knackard enough not to destroy us or the house 
Two days and looks like a heater matrix has been done  :lipsrsealed:
Funny thing when we picked up the kitten there drive had about 10 small wild rabbits running off into the woods so I could quite believe the mother hunts the little critters for lunch.