Kitties! Yay!

Whiskas is wet food, I believe.

I would say mix quality food in with the whiskas, and gradually adjust the portions.

Although it's expensive, Hill's Science Food is the business. My cats eat nothing else. It's the only dry food vets recommend. And if you can get them used to dry food it's so much better in the warmer months, because it doesn't get all stinky and fly-blown.

Cats shouldn't in fact drink milk, it can give them diarrhoea. You can buy special 'cat milk' in pet shops but cats are fine drinking just water.

Pictures! We want, nay, demand pictures!

what Jan said, all of it. I'm certainly not an expert, since my last cat was almost 15 years ago, but my neighbor feeds her cats Hill's Science, and they are really glossy and healthy, not overweight, looking good. (She actually uses a diet formula of Hill's, since the cats are neutered adults and had put on weight.)

Seconding the demand for pictures! (And congrats, Grace... this is so cool.)

ooh I love weetabix, congrats on the new bb's ! Dry food helps keep their teeth clean. A good quality food also makes for less poo because they actually use the stuff in it instead of pooing out all the fillers.

Pics!

I always feed my cats dry food, and they've never suffered from tooth problems (except for the one who apparently tried to chew her way out of a live trap after having gone missing for three days.)

As for weetabix -- weetabix? I don't think any of my cats eat that. I LURVE weetabix, which I can get in the States at my local Hy-Vee Health Market.

They have evidently been eating whiskas kitten food

My cat actually loves her Whiskas; she has to have them every morning, and the vet here was the one who recommended them to us. Should I not be feeding her that, because no one here really feeds their cats "cat food". I don't think I've even seen a can of cat food actually, not even at the high end places. Maybe they're tucked away somewhere I don't know about, but I sure as hell won't be able to afford 'em, I know that much.

Poor kitty. Should've been born in the ol' US of A or Britain and ended up with all of the good stuff:(

Yay, kitties!

I'm obviously some kind of cat-abuser because my cats have always gotten regular supermarket cat food. And one lived till she was 18, and the other is still going strong at 11. Not fat or unhealthy and happy and shiny. Then again, I never took them to the vet unless they were sick, either.

Don't be tempted to feed the cats MeowMix or the other cheap stuff from the supermarket. They LOVE it, and of course they would, it's the kitty equivalent of Doritos. It tastes great (to cats) but has very little nutritional value.

hadjiboy, it's funny you mention that. I used to work for a company that sent American products overseas (it was directed at American expats), and the top products that were requested from Americans living in India were always cat litter and cat food. Obviously a different (less obsessive and moralistic....) cat culture!

And, actually, one of the reasons the company went out of business was the cost of shipping cat litter to India. We never could find a price that people were willing to pay, and that didn't cost us ridiculous amounts of money.

Anyway, Grace, yay kittens! I have never dealt with kittens, at least not since I've been old enough to remember, only adult cats, so I have no advice, but yay kittens!

I respectfully disagree with essexjan -- I think Science Diet is one of the WORST SCAMS perpetuated on cat owners in years.

It's the same old "by-products" that other kibbles contain, but they charge you three prices for it.

My mom used to breed blue-point Siamese. We had DOZENS of cats. They all ate a mix of Purina Cat Chow kibble, tinned tuna, raw egg, and whatever moles, voles, shrews, birds, roaches and crickets they caught on their own. We always had healthy cats with glossy coats and bright eyes.

Don't be afraid to feed your cats regular old cat food. The Purina people spent years and years and millions of dollars perfecting the stuff, and it works just fine. Never feed a cat just kibble -- mix it up with some canned food. (Not literally "mix it up", but make a variety of food available.)

Perhaps Science Diet's wet food is a quality product, I don't know, never tried it after reading the bag of kibble.

My mom's monster cat, Jack, lived to be 22. He finally cashed it in when he tangled with a raccoon twice his size. He ate Purina Cat Chow every day of his evil-tempered life. He was 20-some-odd pounds of pure, mean muscle and never had a health problem.

The perfect food for a cat....is a mouse. Yet no cat food that I know of contains mouse squeezings. They are all approximations -- that Science Diet claims to be "healthier" is an advertising claim, not a scientific one.

Good luck with your new fuzzbutts!

Aw, congrats! Pics soon, please!

Congradulamations! Photos, toot sweet!

Not really going to weigh in on the cat food front because I don't know what's available in Scotland. However, I will say that here Science Diet isn't the best stuff and there is better food available in stores like PetsMart. BUT we had lots of cats when I was growing up that were perfectly fine with grocery store food, stayed healthy, etc. It all depends on what's available in your neck of the woods, your experience with cats, finances, etc. We feed ours dry food (free feed, it's always available to them) and between the four of them they share two small tins of wet food once a week.

I got some technical food it is similar to science diet.

They are incredibly cute. Sleepingks right now. Hubs uploading pix now!