How would you get your adult cats to eat adult food, and your kittens to eat kitten food?
Jennifer B asked:
I have three adult cats two kittens (fostering one) and 1 dog. The adult cats eat the kitten food, and the kittens eat the dog food, and the dog eats both adult and kitten food. How do I get them to eat the right types of food.
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I have three adult cats two kittens (fostering one) and 1 dog. The adult cats eat the kitten food, and the kittens eat the dog food, and the dog eats both adult and kitten food. How do I get them to eat the right types of food.
September 10th, 2009 at 3:25 am
put them in crates, or seperate them by room
September 12th, 2009 at 8:00 pm
When i got my second cat, i put the older cat in one room and locked the kitten our bedroom room while i was out and at nite and that’s how i got my kitties to eat their own food.
September 13th, 2009 at 2:03 am
You can keep the adults cats out of the kitten food by creating a feeding station…. take a box and cut a hole in it big enough for the kittens to get in… but not the bigger cats… put the kitten food bowl in there. As for keeping the kittens out of the dog food…. other than feeding them in separate rooms and limiting their access… there’s not much you can do.
You COULD train them that when you make a specific sound it’s feeding time and then remove the food 1/2 hour later so that they have to eat when it’s time to eat, instead of leaving food out…. and put them in separate rooms to do that…. or you can accept that a bit of dog food won’t hurt the kittens (as long as they’re getting enough kitten food to get the taurine and other nutrients they need) and not worry about it too much.
September 15th, 2009 at 2:01 am
I’d love to see an answer to this that works. Having had cats and dogs all my life… this is just the way it goes and doesn’t seem to do any of them lots of harm. If the kittens do start getting a bit of tummy trouble because they can’t digest the food all we did is feed them separately away from the others - though this can be tricky!