It is smart to keep kittens on the food they were on at the breeder's, which is hopefully a kitten food. If they are on dry food and no wet, then it is easiest to select the wet food from the same company that is closest to the dry. For example, if one is feeding an X brand chicken and rice kitten dry food, then look for an X brand chicken and rice kitten wet food. If that is not available, then choose as you would any other food. One can have a long and fruitless exchange about which foods are "best."
Thanks will do that tomorrow when I go into town. Your truly did help me alot today.
I appreciate the help.
Hi Paula, when you co hunting for wet food, here's some more thoughts on it... not all wet foods are the same quality - on the contrary and believe me money is no indicator of quality too! - You should check the labels thoroughly because an acceptable wet food should contain at least 60% meat or more, added taurin and if possible no soja or corn because those ingredients often are the reason for upset tummies in cats. - oh and make sure it has NO SUGAR - that's often used to get a nice colour of the 'meat' in cheaper wet foods and it's very unhealthy for cats.
I sure hope your pet food cans are adequately labeled... good luck on the hunt!
Most cats can digest corn products without a problem. If you are concerned about an ingredient, check to see if it is in what you are already feeding without a problem. In that case you do not even have to try the food to know it should be OK with respect to that ingredient.
You can argue about different foods forever and get nowhere, but I think at least a quality wet food should have the first few ingredients be meat, rather than grains, and from identified sources, ie. chicken meal rather than "meat" by-products, etc.
Those may or may not make a nutritional difference. There is no reason that a chicken meat protein is nutritionally better than a mixture of "meat" proteins (although chicken may be more digestible for a cat with sensitive stomach). The "meat protein" may or may not be all chicken anyway. Listing order by weight may mean that all meat protein will be down the list if multiple sources are listed separately - and may explain why a vendor would choose to identify "meat protein" and have it higher in the list - the nutritional value being the same and perhaps even better. In any event, each person has to decide how far to go in choosing foods and which differences are marketing and which are nutritional.