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My 1-month-old kitten has diarrhea from wet food. What should I feed?

Updated On September 23rd, 2025

Pet's info: Cat | American Shorthair | Female | unspayed | 1lb

Hi I have a question. My kitten is one month. When I got her the person that had her said she was eating wet food. But she had diarrhea when I got her. I switched to formula milk. But when she drinks milk she doesn’t poop. Now that I tried giving her some wet food again, she pooped right after. Diarrhea again. Is that normal? What can I do and how should I be feeding her

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Answered By David Elbeze, DVM, MRCVS

Veterinarian

Published on December 4th, 2018

Diarrhea is pretty common at this age, give her wet food and kitten milk replacer in the next couple weeks, you can then stop the milk and start her gradually on dry food, hopefully this will resolve by then.

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