Kitten Wet Cat Food Multipack Chicken & Turkey is a complete wet food for kittens up to a year old, and for pregnant and nursing cats, made with chicken and turkey. It is the everyday Science Plan recipe for this life stage, sold without a prescription.

Key Features

• Brain And Eyes: DHA from fish oil for brain and retinal development.
• Growth: Balanced energy and protein for steady growth rather than fast growth.
• Texture: Tender chunks in gravy, easy for a small mouth.
• Also For: Pregnant and nursing cats.
• Pack Size: 12x85g.

About The Multipack

• Buying the box works out cheaper per pouch than singles and saves reordering, which is the main reason to take it.
• A variety box is also a practical hedge against fussiness: cats in particular tire of a single flavour, and having two or three in rotation keeps them eating reliably.
• Check the date on the box rather than the outer carton if you are buying several, and use the oldest first.

Feeding A Growing Kitten

• Kittens need more of almost everything per kilo than an adult cat, especially protein and energy, plus DHA for brain and eye development. A kitten recipe is built for that, so feed it as it comes rather than supplementing.
• Offer food little and often, around four meals a day while small, dropping to twice daily by about a year. Kittens have tiny stomachs and high demands at the same time.
• Keep going to about twelve months, then move to an adult food. Nursing and pregnant cats can stay on kitten food, which is why these recipes are usually labelled for both.

Why Cat Food Looks Like This

• Cats are obligate carnivores: they cannot make enough taurine, arachidonic acid, vitamin A or vitamin D for themselves and have to take them in ready-made from food. That is why a complete cat food is not just a dog food with a different picture on the bag, and why cats should never be fed a vegetarian diet.
• Taurine is the one most people have heard of. Without enough of it cats develop heart muscle disease and go blind, which is why it appears on the front of every bag. Any complete cat food supplies enough, so this is a reassurance rather than a differentiator.
• The balanced minerals Hill's mention are about keeping magnesium, phosphorus and calcium in proportion rather than simply low, because both too much and too little cause problems.

Cats And Water

• Cats evolved to get most of their water from prey and have a weak thirst drive, so a cat on dry food alone often runs mildly short of water. That matters for the urinary tract and the kidneys, which are the two things most likely to shorten a cat's life.
• Practical fixes: more bowls than you think you need, away from the food and the litter tray; a wide shallow bowl so the whiskers stay dry; and a fountain, since many cats drink more from moving water. Adding some wet food to the day is the single most effective change.
• In UAE heat and air conditioning, check the bowls twice a day. Cats drink less from water that has sat out and gone warm and dusty.

Feeding, Storage And The Range

• How much: start from the chart on the pack by weight, then adjust to what you can feel. If you feed wet and dry together, count both halves towards the daily total rather than treating the wet as an extra.
• Changing over: move across gradually over about seven days rather than switching in one go.
• Storage and serving: refrigerate once opened, use within about two days and serve at room temperature, since cold food smells of much less. In UAE summer take it up after about twenty minutes.
• Who makes it: Hill's was founded by an American vet, Mark Morris Senior, who formulated a kidney diet for a guide dog in the 1940s. They run feeding trials on their recipes, which is why they can say clinically proven where most brands cannot.
• Science Plan is not Prescription Diet: this is the everyday range for healthy pets. Prescription Diet is the separate therapeutic range for diagnosed conditions, sold on a vet's recommendation, and the two are not interchangeable.

Good To Know

• This listing is the 12x85g pack.
• Complete wet food. Can be fed alone or alongside a dry food from the same range.
• Refrigerate once opened, use within about two days and serve at room temperature.
• Keep fresh water available at all times.
• Science Plan is a non-prescription everyday food, not a veterinary therapeutic diet.
• Made by Hill's Pet Nutrition, part of Colgate-Palmolive.