I just got a 3 or 4 week old kitten and I just want to know if I can feed it tuna fish?
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No. Tuna does not contain the nutrients she needs. Why do you have a 3-4 week kitten? That’s way too young to be taken from her mother. Right now, her immune system is very weak and she’ll depend on antibodies supplied by her mother’s milk to protect her from infection and disease until her vaccinations can be done at 8-10 weeks old. You need to return her to her mother before she gets very sick and probably dies. If she’s an orphan, she needs to still be bottle fed with a special kitten formula available at pet stores and WalMart till about 6-7 weeks old. She can also have kitten food. She will also need to see a vet ASAP for a general checkover.
Here’s a guide to raising orphaned kittens but if at all possible she needs to be returned to her mother or put with a nursing mother cat who can adopt and raise her. Your local shelter can help with that. In most places it is illegal to rehome kittens younger than 6 weeks old. If someone gave you this kitten from their cat’s litter, you need to turn them in.
Back when we had 21 cats at one time (yes, we were stupid back then & never got our cats fixed), we would feed them tuna fish when all the catfood was gone, which was often!! It’s best to feed them the tuna in water rather than the tuna in oil, because the oil isn’t good for their tummies/digestive system.
PS: Yes, I ALWAYS spay/neuter my pets, now! /./
NOT a good idea.
Kittens need the vitimams and ingredients that are found in Kitten food.
Tuna fish is made for human consumption, not kittens.
Sure, she will eat it, but dont be surprised if she ends up sick, as kittens have VERY sensitive stomachs, hense the Kitten food made for their systems.
Kittens also cannot digest cows milk, so please do not give this to her/him either.
people have thoroughly distinctive nutritional standards than cats. Cats are carnivores. people are omnivores. some human foodstuff may be poison to animals (onions, garlic, root vegetables, green tomatoes, uncooked potatoes, chocolate, grapes, raisins, cow milk with out enzymes to help in its digestion, macadamia nuts, avocado, pear, xylitol – a man made sweetener, caffeine, broccoli, hops, yeast, and so on.) there are particular issues that an occasional scrap does no longer injury, yet no it won’t be their entire foodstuff habitual. replaced into the kitten at a breeder in the previous? locate out what foodstuff it initially replaced into given and attempt that. it may additionally nonetheless pick the foodstuff softened despite if this is dry (water or cat milk – yet do no longer circulate away it out long after this, it is going to circulate undesirable). Heating the foodstuff additionally makes it greater appetizing to a pair, because it releases greater heady scent. There are different issues you may attempt – distinctive meals, particular ‘cat’ gravy for the foodstuff, distinctive schedules, and so on. you mustn’t supply in to ANY scrap foodstuff at the same time as this is behaving this way inspite of the undeniable fact that – you will motivate it to proceed. it may make an effort for it to grant in to cat foodstuff, exceptionally with the development you have now set up, even inspite of the undeniable fact that it is going to. do away with the cat from the room whilst all and sundry is ingesting in case you’re able to desire to.
no, dont.
i started giving my cat some tuna fish as a treat when she was about 1 years old. give it some dry food… she/he’ll like that for now 🙂
Definitely not.Some contain substances that can kill your kitten.