Can i feed blue wilderness cat food to my kitten?

Blue Wilderness is supposed to be a HIGH protein with minimal carb cat food. My question is: can i feed it to kittens? It would seem that would be the formula you would want a kitten to have.Can i feed blue wilderness cat food to my kitten?
Yes, you can. It's all about protein and fat content, not "special kitten nutrients". If you actually were to look at the nutritional analysis on a bag, and compare it to the grocery store "kitten chow" you will see that it actually has more meat protein (and nutrients) than those special kitten formulas. And if anyone doubts this - well, then actually do the reading for yourself. It's there in black and white if you take the time to look. My foster kittens are all fed the "adult" Blue Buffalo Wilderness canned, and also the adult Wellness canned and they thrive!



Remember that Nature didn't create special kitten mice and mice for adult cats. When a cat is fed the all-meat, high protein diet they were created to eat rather than corn-filled junk, they will do well.
You shouldn't. Kittens require higher levels of fats and other nutrients than adult cats do, because they are still growing. (You wouldn't deprive your 2 year old of bread and carbohydrates, would you?)



Double check with your vet, but in the mean time I would recommend only feeding your kitten a food that is specifically for kittens.Can i feed blue wilderness cat food to my kitten?
Definitely! It's a great food I wouldn't hesitate to find my kitten. It's "all life stages" so you can feed it basically from the time they're weaned until they're seniors..



Oops, I take that back. I could have sworn it used to be all life stages. But still, wouldn't hesitate to feed it to a kitten.
Ask your vet; even though its supposedly high in protein, which is good, it may be lacking in other nutrients. Only a vet can say if its good for a kitten. Vets are happy to ensure something is good for an animal, so don't be afraid to ask.
Absolutely. Is one of the better foods for cats. Most of the cat foods are worse than the dog foods. It is difficult to find a good cat food. Blue Wilderness is very good.
Dry or wet?



The BB Wilderness Dry has about 28% carbs, while the wet only about 1.5%



I am totally with you on rather feeding high quality adult food, than low quality kitten food, and most of kitten formulas out there are junk. But I would opt for the wet, I didn't find any dry food with carbs below 10% so far, and I believe cats should have less than 5%, 10% carbs max.



I wouldn鈥榯 really recommend feeding any dry food. Cats are designed to get their water from food. That's the way nature designed them, they have low thirst drive. When fed dry, they won't drink enough to compensate for the lack of moisture. They will only consume about 50% of the water they should be having. This can lead to kidney disease, UTI, crystals, blockage, renal failure and more.



Free feeding also contributes to obesity. And the fact that dry food is over-processed means, that most of it鈥檚 little nutrition has been already destroyed, leaving almost no nutrients for your cat. It needs to eat more to meet it鈥檚 needs, and in the process consumes more calories from the fillers.



Btw wetting the dry food will not help. There鈥檚 bacteria on the kibble and the water would just allow it to grow.



The only way to give the cat it's natural hydration is to feed it wet food only.



But some wet foods are not of a very high quality, either. That goes for most commercial foods. Just like the dry, they are often made with cheap fillers such as corn, wheat, soy, rice etc. These are not a part of cat's natural diet (it鈥檚 an obligate carnivore 鈥?it eats meat) and they are not designed to digest it. Grain is carbohydrate which the cats can't process and it turns into blood sugar and fat, causing diabetes and obesity. In the wild, where cats only hunt for meat, diabetes and obesity are unheard of. It's us who cause these by feeding a species inappropriate food.



We usually read labels on our food, but rarely on the food for our cats. Learn to read the label and understand the ingredients. The healthiest food to feed apart from raw feeding is grain-free wet food with no by-product. Some good brands are Wellness CORE, EVO, Merrick, Nature's Variety, Blue Buffalo Wilderness and more. These will give your cat the proper hydration and nutrition it's designed to get and it will be strong and healthy.



If you switch it's diet, do it gradually, by mixing the current food with the new one over couple of weeks until there's only the new. This will prevent diarrhea and upset stomach.



You will probably get a lot of different answers, so google feline nutrition or look at the links below, and do the research for yourself. I personally wasn't able to find one reliable source (besides the pet food industry) that would say grain is beneficial for cats or that dry is beneficial for them.



More on cat nutrition below,



Good luck!