Thread: New Maine Coon Owner

Hi Krim,
Congratulations on your new addition. I'll answer a couple of your questions if that's ok.

You can call him whatever you want to, his pedigree name is really just for registration purposes. My lot have their pedigree names, then their pet names (and even then some of them have nicknames )

As for the food, I would really start him on Kitten 36 at his age. "Babycat 33" is for weaning and Coonies tend to be a wee bit larger than your average kitten. All my kittens start off on Babycat then move over to "Kitten 36" when they reach about 8-10 weeks old. When he gets to about 6 months you may want to try "Maine Coon Kitten 36". As Brims above me said, introduce any change in diet gradually over the course of a week or so as to avoid upset tummies.

Hope this helps
Mick

HI Krim , welcome to the forum , cant add anything more that Mick has, as brims said questions on food will produce a different answer from nearly every member on the forum , I took the same route with my babes as Mick was suggestion , mainly because they started life on RC food and i felt that keeping them on the same brand would make it easier when moving up to the next stage. they also get 1/2 a sachet each of wet food for breakfast and tea as this helps their water intake and it makes me feel that they get a bit of variety. I have tried them on bits of chicken etc etc , but they always look at me as tho i am trying to posion them !
One final thing... we all require pics of your baby so we can drool and get broody ........

Originally Posted by MickB

Hi Krim,
Congratulations on your new addition. I'll answer a couple of your questions if that's ok.

You can call him whatever you want to, his pedigree name is really just for registration purposes. My lot have their pedigree names, then their pet names (and even then some of them have nicknames )

As for the food, I would really start him on Kitten 36 at his age. "Babycat 33" is for weaning and Coonies tend to be a wee bit larger than your average kitten. All my kittens start off on Babycat then move over to "Kitten 36" when they reach about 8-10 weeks old. When he gets to about 6 months you may want to try "Maine Coon Kitten 36". As Brims above me said, introduce any change in diet gradually over the course of a week or so as to avoid upset tummies.

Hope this helps
Mick

Exactly what I would have said, you got there first Mick.

With regard to the water question, I have fountains that I fill either from the tap or with filtered water, depending on how I feel, and the cats don't seem to mind either. Strangely when outside, they will drink from the muddiest puddle they can find.