Need help picking the right cat wet food for my new kitten.

I recently adopted my first kitten and I am bit lost about feeding. There are so many types of cat wet food out there; cans, fresh, homemade, etc. What’s the best way to start? Should I mix wet and dry food or stick to one?

How old is your kitten Billi?

Hi Billi,

Of the options you mention I think that if you can do the research to insure that the food meets all the creatures needs and can pull it off then homemade food is best. Same as us. I also think the best quality backup foods you can afford and variety is good for all of us.

The only difference between then and us in my view is that most of these pet creatures don't live very long and are actual INNOCENT beings on the planet that should be given the best of everything for their short time here.

Good luck and have fun with the new pal! Oh and do they have a name yet?

Why not feed the kitten real food?  When we adopted our cat I feed her ground deer because I did not have any cat food.

Our dog eats the same food that I eat.  The cat is not interested in the same food that I eat because she is interested in cat food.

If I had never feed her anything but ground deer she would be super happy.

I second Anne.
Pet food is one of the products on the market that is completely not needed. It's also usually very detrimental to animal's health like all junk food products. I'm talking about cat and dog food, and not some specialized products for exotics.
Feeding cat quality diet is simple and cheap:
-any meat
-hearts
-livers
-kidneys
-chicken
My cats love chicken bones, raw or cooked. They were eating them since they were kittens as soon as they could crush them.
Occasionally I give them some canned tuna, sardines (in water), fish bones and heads.
I give them milk, some sour cream and cheese. They like raw eggs and pieces of butter.
I was feeding them ground squirrels and rattlesnakes.
It's important to offer the variety, especially bones and organs. If they also hunt, variety is of a less concern.
If I don't have enough for them, they are more compelled to hunt and they are my only weapon against ultra-destructive gophers.

Cats, being true carnivores, generally do best on a purely carnivore diet - meats, fish, poultry, eggs, even some dairy. They don't need fruits, grains, and veggies, but if their bodies need extra calcium & other minerals, they'll occasionally gnaw on a raw bone, though not so much as dogs do.

I have never had a kitten, but have heard very good things online about a YouTuber named The Kitten Lady.  Her advice is supposed to be especially good if your kitten is too young to be away from its mother.

Around 2.5 months

Nancy Reading wrote:How old is your kitten Billi?

When choosing a food source, say a raw carnivore diet as previously suggested, do you find that you have to do anything specific for dental health or are cats pretty good in the realm of teeth?

I only ask because I have experience with dogs (which I am more familiar with) that experienced dental issues if they don't have access to things that help them maintain their plaque levels when fed primarily soft foods. Luckily, once identified, we started a little tooth brushing routine but that dog was from years prior.  

Timothy Norton wrote:When choosing a food source, say a raw carnivore diet as previously suggested, do you find that you have to do anything specific for dental health or are cats pretty good in the realm of teeth?

I only ask because I have experience with dogs (which I am more familiar with) that experienced dental issues if they don't have access to things that help them maintain their plaque levels when fed primarily soft foods. Luckily, once identified, we started a little tooth brushing routine but that dog was from years prior.  

It feels like frequently feeding them bones might help with this, no? Dental plaques are not as hard as tooth enamel, so chewed up bone might help polish off plaque? Just a thought, don't have any data to back it up.

Yup - that's part of what the bones do.