Kitten to Adult Food

jhgkp

My girl is nearly 10 months old and she gets fed a tin of wet in the evening (applaws chicken) and in the morning and throughout the day she gets dry applaws chicken. Over the past few days she has been not eating it right away - she leaves alot sometimes before next feeding time its gone but not always - do you think she is too young for adult - OH thinks it may be because she is bored with chicken. Before she used to run to her food and purr away while eating it.

GwylimT

Kitten/adult food is a marketing gimmic.

Applaws tins are not complete, so they should be no more than 20% of he animals diet.

tesuhoha

If you are giving her biscuits during the day then perhaps she is overfed and not hungry because Applaws is quite rich. My cat put on a lot of weight with Applaws adult dry food and was getting bloody stools with it. I took her off it and now if she has biscuits she has Thrive chicken.

Perhaps you should try feeding her a bit less.

Livelongandprosper

My wee fella is around the same age and has never been given kitten food - he's a rescue

He gets a 100g sachet of lidls morning and evening and 50g at lunchtime. He also gets a wee sprinkle of complete dry

Most mornings he dances on my head to get me up to feed him, other times his meal is still there at lunchtime. If he doesn't eat a sachet then I chuck it and leave a sprinkle of dry. Sometimes he will eat dry, other times he won't touch it. He's a healthy 10lb weight so I'm not concerned

fangoose

Remember she will be growing less now. Try another food. Always introduce new food slowly. And of course if she is of her food compltely a check up at the vet. Has she been spayed?

jhgkp

Thank you all for your replies.

Will get her some adult to try and try and give her less and see how it goes. She is eating, just not as much.

She hasn't been spayed yet. We had another cat last year - she was 6 years old. Just before her 6th birthday she was spayed and died suddenly (woke up one morning to find her gone in her bed, still warm) 2 months later, so we are a bit reluctant.