Training when they are a kitten is important. Brush their teeth once a week to get used to it. Cut their nails. We put ours in a harness every day for an hour so she was accustomed to it. Because we spend so much time in our yard, it was going to be inevitable she would want to spend time with us out there. So now she goes out with us on a harness and leash and gets to enjoy chasing bugs in the yard. She even took care of our vole problem!
If you plan on travelling with them, make sure you give them time in the carrier. We take ours out to Canmore, but I'm not sure we did enough crating as she isn't always calm for the trip. My dad also has a cat, so getting her accustomed to it when young really helped. She's pretty good around other animals.
If your kitten is being destructive, it probably wants to play. Make time for them, I toss her some toys every morning. I bought a little RC car for her to chase around.
As for food, boy that's a rabbit hole! I'm now in the camp that they should primarily get wet, with some dry to clean the teeth. I was at the vet asking about food. They recommended a Purina one and Royal Canin. I mentioned I had Purina Fancy Feast, and she said that was OK as a treat, but it was like feeding the cat big macs. Uh huh. So I get a sampler and open it. It looks identical to the fancy feast. I check the meat content, minerals etc. And they are identical. The only difference was the order of a couple minor ingredients, and the Fancy Feast had chicken broth instead of water as one ingredient. Oh, and the vet stuff costs twice as much!
I've read not to feed to much fish, so I've switched for the 3 pack of chicken-salmon-tuna to chicken-chicken-turkey, and she gets a few fish every week. Honestly I think the vet food is a bit of a scam. Obviously there is crap food out there, but I don't think the vet specific stuff is better than what can be found at the store, if you do a little reading.
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