Royal Canin Mother & Babycat

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Royal Canin Mother & Babycat is unusual in the range because it is fed to two animals at once. The same food suits a kitten from about one month, when it starts investigating solids, through to four months, and the queen in late gestation and through lactation. That is deliberate rather than a shortcut: a nursing mother's energy and nutrient needs run close to a growing kitten's, and a litter learns to eat by copying her from the same dish.

Everything about the format is aimed at a mouth that has barely any teeth. The dry kibble is made extremely small and soft, so a kitten can manage it while the milk teeth are still coming through, and the mousse is whipped to an ultra-soft texture that can be licked rather than chewed. In practice most people use both: mousse from weaning, with the dry kibble softened in a little warm water at first and offered plain once the kitten is chewing confidently.

Nutritionally it carries DHA, an omega-3 fatty acid, to support brain development and healthy vision, an antioxidant complex including vitamins E and C to support natural defences at a stage when a kitten's own immunity is still building on top of what it received from its mother, and MOS prebiotics with highly digestible protein to support a settling gut microbiome.

PeekAPaw stocks the dry food in 400g, 2kg, 4kg and 10kg, and the Ultra Soft Mousse in 195g cans, singly or in a 12-pack. From around four months a kitten should move on to a standard or breed-specific kitten food, so it is worth buying a bag size you will finish in that window.