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New kitten care: Can 3-week-olds eat wet food & use human clippers?

Updated On September 23rd, 2025

Pet's info: Cat | Mixed Breed | Female | unspayed | 2 years and 2 months old

Hello.can a 3 weeks old cat eat canned wet food?I attached the canned food's picture.and can I chop his nails with human's nail_trimmer?

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Answered By Laura Johnson VMD

Veterinarian

Published on July 10th, 2017

Hi, this is Dr. Johnson. Thanks for using Petco Pet Education Center, formerly Petcoach! You can start introducing canned food now. But I'd trying mixing Kitten Milk Replacer in with it. I use a pair of human nail clippers to trim my adult cats nails, so that is fine!

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