CARE FOR YOUR NEW KITTEN It is useful to have a bed or special blanket in a designated place in the house that is quiet and peaceful where your new pet can escape to when it feels threatened by other pets, children or visitors. Nutrition Ideally feed your kitten / cat a food that is free of chemicals, preservatives and high amounts of grain or carbohydrates. For more information about a well balanced raw food diet please see our information sheet. With kittens always change their diet gradually as they are prone to getting tummy upsets from sudden diet changes ie. Mix ¼ of the new food with ¾ of their old food for a couple of days, then ½ and ½ for a couple of days, etc. Feeding your cat a healthy, wholesome and wellbalanced diet will help it to stay in good health. Cats are naturally carnivores and depend on good quality protein and fat to keep them t and strong. Introducing Your Cat to its New Home For the rst 2 weeks in its new home it is important to keep your cat / kitten indoors so that it can become settled in its new environment. Cats and kittens that are let outside too early are likely to wander and become lost. Worm & Flea treatment Fleas and worms can be extremely harmful parasites. Not only do they cause a tremendous amount of irritation but they are also responsible for health problems such as ea allergies, sore tummies, diarrhea and they are capable of infesting young animals so severely that they can cause them to be anemic and very sick. There are a number of ways to reduce worm and ea burdens numbers. Firstly supporting your pet’s immune system with good nutrition will go a long way to making them less tasty to eas and more able to defend against worm burdens. Regular treatment with worm and ea products are important to help keep your pet healthy. Some products are of much better quality than others and there are some products that can have toxic side effects so be sure to check with your vet what the most user friendly option for your pet is. With eas, environmental control is very important as typically the number of eas on any dog or cat is only the tip of the ice berg reecting a much greater ea population in the animal’s environment of both adult and immature eas. Therefore addressing the environment is a very important component of ea control. Immature eas can be destroyed by regularly hanging pet bedding out in the sunshine, thoroughly vacuuming carpets on a regular basis and sprinkling them with borax or diatomaceous earth afterwards.