Food, Litter, and Helpful Hints
| Feeding your Kitten We feed dry food left down all day and night. The dry food we are feeding is Royal Canin Baby Cat dry. We are feeding a raw mixture as well which we mix with the canned Fancy Feast Medleys, chicken or turkey in the savory broth. We highly recommend you continuing to feed the same foods fed here. Kittens that are switched off of the diet they are used to can get loose or soft stools or refuse to eat. If you would like to continue feeding the raw diet, we recommend and use the one we feed which is from Oma‘s Pride. We feed the Ground Beef (TEFCO). This comes frozen and you just break and thaw as much as you need. It stays good in the refrigerator for about 3 days thawed out. We do mix some vitamins into the raw meat about three times a week. We use either Feline Missing Link or Kitty Bloom vitamins. We feed our raw diet mixed with the canned Fancy Feast Medleys twice a day to the kittens and once daily to the adults. Just put a golf ball sized amount on a small plate mix with about 1/3 of a can of the Fancy Feast Medleys and let them go! Please, if you are going to continue with feeding the raw and we recommend that you do, please feed Oma’s Pride or another raw frozen brand and NOT ground beef from a grocery store! This can make the kittens very sick as they do not use the correct procedures to freeze and package. You can find Oma's Pride distributors near you by going to their website and entering your zip code. www.omaspride.com Litter and Litter Boxes We use pine pellets as our cat litter, bought at TSC and Southern States. You can use a brand called Feline Pine that is sold at Pet Stores all over just in smaller bags. The brand we use is called Equine Pine, same as Feline Pine just in a larger sized bag. It is made for horse bedding, but works great for cat litter. Reducing the smell of ammonia in the urine. For litterboxes, we use open boxes, shorter sides for kittens. You can eventually use a taller or enclosed litterbox once they are used to your home and their new environment. We do not recommend that you change their litterbox type until they are secure in their new home. We even use Rubbermaid storage containers without the lids to keep litter inside and not on the floor for our adults and some older kittens. |
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| Cats and Down Comforters and Pillows We have noticed that some Bengal cats and kittens are drawn to down comforters and pillows. We never noticed this when we bred Siamese, but have heard of it a few times since we began breeding Bengals. It seems they are drawn to the smell of the feathers inside and some will attempt to urinate on them. It seems to especially happen once they are dry cleaned which must bring out the smell of the natural feathers and down. We can't smell it, but cats sense of smell is much better than ours. We recommend being careful and watching kittens closely around these items. Not all will do this, not even most will, but some do and it is best to keep them away from down just in case! |
Helpful Hints and Tips
| When you take your kitten (s) home, we know you want to have them with you constantly and feel bad about keeping them in a small room for the first week, but this is very important. What this does is: 1) provide a safe haven for your kitten (remember he/she has never been out of our home and cattery and never away from littermates) 2) helps the kittens know where their new litterbox and food/water is located 3) allows/forces the kitten to bond with you instead of being able to hide away or bond with another pet in your home. A small bathroom is the perfect place for a kitten for the first week at its new home :) |
