How often should you change cat food?

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Sarah Johnson

Healthcare Technology Correspondent

How often should you change cat food?

It is better to change cat food every three months or so. If a cat eats the same food for a long time, it will easily make the cat feel bored, and the cat may become picky about food. Different cat foods have different formulas. Changing cat foods can avoid unbalanced cat nutrition. And as cats age, their nutritional needs also change.

How to change cat food

1. The best way to change cat food is to do it step by step. In the process of changing cat food, the new and old cat food are fed together, but the proportion of new and old cat food is constantly changing.

2. At the beginning, you can only add a little new cat food to the cat’s old cat food. After that, you can slowly reduce the proportion of old cat food and increase the proportion of new cat food until you finally completely replace the old cat food.

3. For kittens under 1 year old, kitten cat food should be chosen.

4. Kittens aged 4-9 weeks can be fed with one part warm water and three parts dry food.

5. For kittens aged 10-12 weeks, their teeth have been well developed and the amount of water can be reduced accordingly.