Does it matter if kitten eats big cats' food & vv?

[TheOneWithTheNicestSmile]

In terms of digestion, growth etc I mean, not feline politics?

recently i have had 6 week old feral foster kittens and four month old foster kittens and they got the same as my adult resident cats mainly cos they pinched the adults food any way and they thrived on it i feed mine either butchers classic meat or asda fish in jelly which both have no cereal in them its only in the last few years that kitten food has become popular and your told bad mommy if you dont feed kitten food and the rescue i work at gives the kittens adult wet food but gives them royal canin kitten biscuits as they are small bite pieces

oh thanks, issey

it's Royal Canin bics that are the main issue, actually!

there are kitten bics in the kitten's room upstairs, which she doesn't eat much, but the big cats do, & neutered female bics downstairs, which all 3 are eating

I'm pleased that they aren't squabbling over food, but worrying that big cats might gain too much on the kitten bics, & kitten not enough on the neutered ones

wet food is mostly Felix pouches now for both - no cereal - either AGAIL (which includes veg protein??? ) or ordinary (which doesn't)

Both also include "various sugars" though, which bothers me a bit

My kitten has pinched the big cats' food since the day he turned up aged 7 weeks - initially I had to give him adult cat food as we had nothing else (he was a stray and absolutely starving). I did get some kitten food which he ate for a bit but then rejected. The older cats had "senior food" for age 11+ so I have gone back to the "adult" version as I think the kitten needs more energy than the senior food could provide. He's absolutely thriving - 6 months old now - & I'm not sure what extra would be provided by kitten food. But I'm also sure that when my old cats were kittens I just gave them normal adult cat food, the younger one is still with me aged 17 so it can't have done him any harm

The other problem was that my old boy cat absolutely loved the kitten food but I thought it might not be that good for him as he is housebound, not at all active, has high blood pressure and I don't think his kidney function is that great (the vet muttered about kitten food having a lot of protein). So the standard adult food seemed to be a good compromise.

We fed Mooncat (who is Moonkitten's ex-stray mum) on the same food as him for the first few weeks. By the time we'd had her 2-3 months her weight had shot up and she was looking rather rotund compared with her skinny-ish recently-neutered figure when we got her.

We tried feeding her separately on adult pouches but all that did was cause them to do an amusing bowl switch after about 10 minutes, with both cats waiting patiently on either side of a door to steal each other's food!

The second compromise we tried was adult wet food and kitten crunchies once MK reached 6 months. That seemed to stop MC's weight gain. Since Christmas we've finally finished the monster bag of crunchies and bought another one of adult crunchies. Kitten is now 4.2kg and 9 months and still growing like a weed! Adult food doesn't seem to have slowed him down... Whether Mooncat shrinks again is anyone's guess, but we have our fingers crossed.

i would suggest change the biscuits to something like harringtons (i get from asda) which are small enough bite for the kitten and big enough in nutrition for the older cat this is the biscuits i gave the fosters and my own cats like this one too, dont know why female neutered been fed all mine are done and havent ever fed them one specifically for neutered as it tends to be expensive lol adult cats love royal canin kitten biccies my lot love it when i have fosters from yorkshire cat rescue as that is what comes with them, i find the kittens eating the harringtons and my lot queing up to steal the kittens biscuits