I fed both my kittens adult canned 3x a day with free feed kitten kibble. I don't remember exactly when I took Book's kibble away, it was before he turned a year old though. About 9 months I think.

Neelix had his taken away between 7 or 8 months because he was a little fatty, even when I rationed it. The vet said to get rid of it.

 

I fed both my kittens adult canned 3x a day with free feed kitten kibble.

Hey MowMow is this a typo?? Are you hoarding another kitten besides Neelix we don't know about????

As to the food, I don't even bother with kitten canned food. My foster kittens and momma kitty eat regular canned wet food and an all stages kibble. Buy a good quality all stages kibble if your cat is a kibble maniac or just go with canned - any stage is fine.

 

Sounds good. I have some adult kibble and canned food (Iams and Luvsome respectively) from before my other fur child passed away about a month ago so that seems like that will work just fine.

 

Most Domestics are mature physcially at 10 mos-12 mos., so depending on her size she may be ready for adult food now.

 

Our little stray/adoptee Callie is about 6 mos old and she had already been weaned before we found her. She therefore ate "regular" food from maybe 5 months and the vet said she's fine.

As with human babies, people sometimes feed them baby food too long.

As soon as the cat is okay and is happy eating grownup cat food, no problem, as I see it.

 

I fed mine until 1 year, but they were still growing, also they were thin. Now they are on adult food at a year and a half, but still seem to be growing: both gained a few ounces during the last three months (Gretel is a little over 9 pounds now, Hansel - 12), but they still look OK, the vet thinks they are normal weight. But they are tall and long, especially Hansel, and his paws are big, he still looks a bit funny - with overly long body, long tail too. I think you can switch now or wait a couple of months depending on if the cat is still growing or not.

 

Thanks for this question, I was just about to ask the same thing. Tiger and Lily have been eating adult wet food for months now but I was thinking of transitioning their dry food from kitten to adult. They are going on 8 months old and are quite "solid" so I assumed now would be a good time to start adult dry food.

 

I took Tee for her complimentary vet visit yesterday and they said she is consider an adult cat now because of her size/weight. She is a shade over 9 pounds. So I will feed her adult food which she seems to like pretty well.

 

I've had good experience feeding all life stages wet food (four meals a day) with kitten kibble intermittently as treats for motivating good behavior. Jasper (almost 6 months old and still growing like a weed) gets Nature's Variety Instinct and Wellness Core varieties of wet. He loves all of them, especially the Wellness Core, which he will eat twice as fast as anything I give him for dry, which I use as treats, I feed Royal Canin Persian Kitten food, which is kind of junky (I got suckered in by the breed specific nutrition promise); he adores it though. Ever since I started using it as treats grooming him has become as easy as pulling out a kibble when he starts to get a little fidgety :thumb hope this helps!