Kitten eating big cat food and vice versa!

jessalfie

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I cant stop my little Alfie eating his big sisters food!

He's now 12 weeks old and I give him a mix of dry and wet kitten food, which he does eat but he loves his sister so much that he follows her everywhere! He'll go to her while shes eating and eat out of her bowl too. Jess also does the same, she'll go and eat his kitten food.

The food is kept in seperate rooms but they have the run of the house together so each can get to the rooms where the other kittys food is.

This shouldnt be a problem should it? I've tried to stop them eating each others food and they wont when I'm there but they must do when I work too.

Unless I try moving Jess' food onto a counter or something as Alfie can't jump very high yet....

I'm not really worried about Jess eating kitten food, its more Alfie eating the adult food, just incase he chokes on the bigger pieces or something.....
 

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I have a similar problem: my 2 adults eat the kitten food and my 2 12-week old kittens eat the adult food. I also have feeding areas in 2 seperate rooms but they just seem to eat from one and other's area.

From what I understand, kitten food has a higher nutrional value than adult food...more protein, etc. A kitten will eat it's daily requirement of nutrition...meaning if a kitten eats adult food, it will tend to eat more of it to make up for nutrionall value.

My 2 little ones have no problem crunching the adult food...not too worried about any choking. I guess they just have to chew a little bit more on it
 

aquiel

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I dont think you have too much to worry about, kittens will crunch the dry food regardless of the size of it.
However if you notice him having difficulties, just relocate the adult food, somewhere where he cant get it.
 
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