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[Shadow]

Hello all =]
I was just wondering about at what age i should stop giving my kitten milk?
he's 7 weeks on friday and Seb & Lilly dont seem to like water very much, someone told me they dont like water from a tap, does this mean that i should get bottled water?

[MissDolittle]

7 weeks is a good age to start weaning. Here's is what I usually do:

I start watering down the formular and take some dry kitten food, soak it
for a couple of hours in water, put it through the blender and then mix it with
the formular. Each day I take more catfood and less milk. If you feed 4 times
a day now, start feeding only 3 times tomorrow.

Also always have a bowl with water and a bowl with plain dry kittenfood
available at all times. I have one 4 weeks old kitten that is already crunching
away on the dry food. No need for bottled water.

Then after 3 days of feeding the bottle 3 times, put the formular with the
soaked dry catfood in a shallow bowl and let him eat it from the bowl. Feed
the bottle twice. Then 3 days after that, make it 2 bowl feedings and 1 bottle
feeding.

After a while you should have only the soaked dry catfood in the bottle.
Feed that until he eats the dry food out of the bowl. No harm in feeding
the bottle for as long he wants it, but it's time to get off the milk.

Sometimes, in order to get them to eat from the bowl I put some chicken
in with it or take some canned food (but only for the smell..canned food
usually lacks of nutrition big time and I wouldn't want to feed that as the
main food, only as a treat. They also get the runs from it, so be greedy
with it and do not mix canned food into the bottle!).

I always choose dry kittenfood that has 40% of Crude Protein..here it is
Purina Kitten Chow that's the best for growing kittens.

[Shadow]

Thanks so much miss dolittle great help =]