Schesir Kitten Chicken Fillets in Jelly Pouch - 20 x 85 g

Schesir Kitten Chicken Fillets in Jelly Pouch - 20 x 85 g is a supplementary wet food for kittens, chicken fillet in jelly, in a case of twenty 85 g pouches.

Key Features

• A supplementary food, not a complete one: Schesir's own description of this product says supplementary. Please read the section below before you buy it as your kitten's only food.
• Chicken and fish, human-grade by the brand's account: Named ingredients rather than meal or derivatives.
• Steam-cooked: Gently cooked rather than rendered, which is what the brand means by minimally processed.
• No colourings, appetisers or chemical additives: The brand's claim for its natural range.
• Twenty pouches to a case: Good value per pouch, and the reason to be certain it is the right thing before you commit to twenty of them.

Read This First: This Is Not A Complete Food

• Schesir's own description of this product calls it a supplementary food. It is not formulated to be a kitten's whole diet and we are not going to sell it to you as one.
• Fed alongside a complete kitten food it is fine. Fed on its own it leaves a growing kitten short of the vitamins, minerals and calcium balance it needs, and a kitten has much less margin for that than an adult cat.
• If you want one product to feed and nothing else, ask us. Schesir's Baby Mousse, Baby Wholefood, Pouch Cream and Kitten Care ranges are all complete and balanced, and we will tell you which suits your kitten's age.

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.
• If you are already feeding this as your kitten's only food, there is no need to panic, but do come and talk to us about what to put alongside it or what to move to.
• 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.