How can I keep my kitten from eating my adult cat's food?

She's such a little piggy! I thought I'd have troubles keeping our adult cat from our kitten's food, but it's the other way around. And I think our adult cat is getting upset about it because he won't eat when she's nosing around. (Who would want to?) Plus we noticed that he was coughing last night after we fed him, so we think he ate too fast to prevent her from getting at it.

Any ideas? We tried the squirt bottle, but that scared both of them, so that wasn't any help.

Please put the squirt bottle away. How old is your kitten? Depending on the age, it will depend on how often you need to feed him. Plus what are you feeding? Kittens need quality canned and dry food in order to satisfy them.

Why put the squirt bottle away?

Also, we're feeding her Hill's dry kitten food, which the vet gave us.

Whoops, and she's also a 11 weeks old. We keep her own dish full of food for her so she can eat whenever she wants. I'm pretty sure she's not hungry, because she always has her own food in her own dish. I think she's just nosey and likes to eat, period.

Bottle no good! It is not nice. And cat not under stand. Try meal times. In other rooms. Try put warm water in food. Maybe more flavor to.

I sounds like you free feed both the adult cat and the kitten? You might try to change to scheduled feeding for the adult one, and keep the kitten in another room when you give him (the adult one) his food. Just portion out the daily food ration in several meals, morning, afternoon, evening/night, or even more often if you are at home all day.

When I got Saki, I used to feed them seperately (wet food). Saki in the bathroom and Zoey in the kitchen. As far as dry food, good luck

I wouldn't use the water bottle because as you say it frightens them.

I have a 14 week old kitten(Sophie) and a two year old cat(Rosie). If she could Sophie would eat Rosie's wet food as well as her own, even though she has dry food "all day".

What I do now is to give Rosie her food in a separate room to Sophie and that works for me

We free feed our kitten, Penny. We feed our adult cat Terrell twice a day. And their food is already in different rooms! I just don't know what to do. Now, we're just shutting a door between the rooms so Terrell can eat in peace and open it again when he's done.

I hope she grows out of this! and thanks for the tip about the squirt bottle. I never knew.