Schesir Kitten Care Chicken with Aloe in Jelly Wet Kitten Food - 7 x 85 g

Schesir Kitten Care Chicken with Aloe in Jelly Wet Kitten Food - 7 x 85 g is a complete and balanced wet food for kittens of three to twelve months, chicken fillet in jelly with an aloe topping.

Key Features

• A balanced formula for three to twelve months: Schesir states complete nutrition for this recipe at this age.
• Chicken fillet with aloe on top: The aloe is a topping rather than the bulk of the recipe, which is worth being clear about.
• Omega fatty acids from seed oil: Where the oils in this recipe come from, named rather than left as 'oils and fats'.
• Hand-worked and steamed in a gelatin base: The brand's description of how it is made, and the reason it sets as a jelly rather than a gravy.
• 100% natural ingredients: The brand's claim for this recipe, with no added colourings.

This One Is A Complete Food

• Complete and balanced, so it can be the whole diet for a kitten of the right age.
• That is not true of everything Schesir makes. The Complements line is a complementary food and says so on its own label, and so are a couple of the kitten products on this site, which we have labelled as such.
• A complementary food fed as the whole diet leaves a growing kitten short, and a kitten has far less margin for that than an adult cat. If you are buying one thing to feed and nothing else, buy a complete one.

Which Schesir Kitten Food For Which Age

• From two weeks: Baby Thrive, and only as a supplement alongside milk or a complete food.
• From one month: the Baby Multipack, which is mousse with finely chopped fillets to get a kitten used to solid food.
• Nought to six months: Pouch Cream, the softest of them and the one for weaning.
• Two to twelve months: Baby Mousse and Baby Wholefood.
• Three to twelve months: Can Mousse 3-12 and Kitten Care 3-12.
• Move to an adult food at about a year. Tell us your kitten's age in weeks and we will tell you which of these it should be on now and what comes next.

What A Kitten Actually Needs, And Why Not Just Less Adult Food

• A kitten needs roughly twice the energy per kilogram that an adult cat does, and has a stomach a fraction of the size. That is the whole reason kitten food exists: more in less.
• It also means small meals, often. Four a day at eight weeks, dropping to two by the time it is a year old.
• Taurine and DHA are the two that matter most early on. Cats cannot make enough taurine themselves, and DHA is used in building the brain and the retina while the kitten is still growing.
• A kitten that is not gaining weight, or has diarrhoea for more than a day, needs a vet rather than a different food. They dehydrate fast.

Wet Food And Water, Which Matters More Here

• A wet food is roughly three-quarters water. In this climate that is water going into the kitten without it having to choose to drink.
• Kittens dehydrate faster than adult cats because they are small. A wet meal is the simplest insurance against that, and it is worth more here than it is in Italy, where the food was formulated.

Opened Tins And Pouches, In This Heat

• Cover an opened tin or pouch, refrigerate it, and use it within a day.
• Let it come back to room temperature first. A kitten will refuse cold food and you will think it has gone off it.
• Do not leave wet food down for hours in a warm room. With a kitten, put down what it will finish and take the rest away.

Good To Know

• Start a new food beside the old one rather than swapping the bowl in one go. Kittens take to new food far more readily than adult cats, which is the argument for getting a kitten used to both wet and dry now and saving yourself the fight later.
• Ask us for the composition panel and we will photograph it for you. The front of a pack is not enough to compare two foods.