At what age should i start my kitten on adult cat food?

Lieselotte

My kittens are 5 months old. Can I start them on adult cat food at this time?



Delia

Nope. Wait until theyre 12 months old. Whatever kitten food youre feeding them will have that on the bag. Edit: I should add that they need the extra protein provided in kitten food throughout their growth period, which is usually up to a year of age. Edit: Ocimom, no offense, but I have four cats and work in a shelter containing over 400 cats at any time of year. If you want to compete about numbers of experiences, please waste your time, but thats not whats important. I fed all of my cats kitten food until they were a year old and none of them are overweight. At the shelter, kittens are fed kitten food until a year of age and only adult, declawed cats are fat. If you want your kittens to be healthy and develop normally, keep them on kitten food until theyre a year old.



Karrie

Yes you can. I only feed kitten food for about 4-5 months old, then switch to adult foods. As long as your kitten is healthy and growing, no need to keep the kittens on kitten food for a long time. With early spay/neuter by 3-4 months old, if you feed the higher calorie food for a year, you will have a fat cat! Edit - I dont know why the thumbs down, but Ive always followed this rule regarding kitten food and I KNOW they will be fat and overweight if left on kitten food. Ive never had a fat cat/kitten and they have always been healthy. There is no real reason to keep them on kitten food after 5 months and being spayed/neutered. Its a lot easier to put weight on a cat then to worry later about having to put them on a diet - do what you want - but I have plenty of experience and know what Im talking about!



Bethann

I would say somewhere foerm 6 months to a year. im not quiter sure but they have to be able to digest it right os maybe try it about 9 months



Clotilde

Cats are not adult cats till they are 12 months or over so no



Enola

Sigh There really isnt much difference. Please learn about feline nutrition Nutrition since there are so many bad things out there is very important to your cat’s healthContrary to what you may have heard; dry foods are not a great thing to feed a cat. Please read the label on what you are feeding? What are the ingredients? Do you know what they mean? Is the first ingrediant a muscle meat like chicken or meal or other things? http://www. catinfo. org/#Learn_How_To_Rea…http://iml. jou. ufl. edu/projects/Spring04…Dry foods are the number 1 cause of diabetes in cats as well as being a huge contributing factor to kidney disease, obesity, crystals, u. t.i’s and a host of other problems. Food allergies are very common when feeding dry foods. Rashes, scabs behind the tail and on the chin are all symptomsThe problems associated with Dry food is that they are loaded with grains and carbohydrates which many cats (carnivores) cannot process. Also, Most of the moisture a cat needs is suppose to be in the food but inDry, 95% of it is zapped out of dry foods in the processing. Another thing, most use horrible ingredients and dont use a muscle meat as the primary ingredient and use vegetable based protein versus animal. Not good for an animal that has to eat meat to survive. http://www. catinfo. org/#My_Cat_is_Doing_…You want to pick a canned food w/o gravy (gravy=carbs) that uses a muscle meat as the first ingredient and doesnt have corn at least in the first 3 ingredients if at all. THE BEST CAT FOODS CONTAIN NO GRAINS NO BYPOODUCTS NO MEALCats are meat eaters not cereal or rice eaters Fancy feast is a middle grade food with 9lives, friskies whiskas lower grade canned and wellness and merrick upper grade human quality foods. I would rather feed a middle grade canned food then the top of the line dry food. Also, dry food is not proven to be better for teeth. Does a hard pretzel clean your teeth or do pieces of it get stuck? http://www. felinefuture. com/nutrition/bp… Please read about cat nutrition. http://www. catinfo. org/ http://www. catinfo. org/feline_obesity. ht… http://maxshouse. com/feline_nutrition. ht… Vetinarian diets The reason your vet thinks so highly of the pet food they sell probably has more to do with money than nutrition. In vet school, the only classes offered on nutrition usually last a few weeks, and are taught by representatives from the pet food companies. Vet students may also receive free food for their own dogs and cats at home. They could get an Iams notebook, a Purina purse and some free pizza. http://iml. jou. ufl. edu/projects/Spring04…



Amira

You can, but you wont be doing them any favours! Kittens dont become adults until they are about a year old. They are still growing up until then, and need the extra nutirition that kitten food gives them. It is designed to give them all the vitamins and protein that they need to grow into a healthy cat. Buy them the best food you can afford! You will prevent health problems later on by doing this.



Huey

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Becky

A year is a good time to switch. You could always try food that is for all lifes stages like Taste of the Wild or something like that. A year is good as long as they arent becoming over-weight. My orange tabby started getting way too chubby at around 9 months so I switched them to Taste of the Wild from Purina Kitten Chow (which is cheap **** anyway). I have a kitten now who is 6 months old who is just now switching from Purina Kitten Chow to Taste of the Wild so I mix the food together. She is so small (not skinny just small) that I try to get as much protein as possible into her diet. At only 5 months they are still KITTENS not CATSso obviously you might want to contine with KITTEN food. lol.