at what age do you switch a cat from kitten to adult cat food?

Answer 1

Usually around 1 year old.

Answer 2

Kitten Food Age

Answer 3

Kitten food is high in calorie compared to adult cat food. From my own experience, I switch my cat to adult formula food when he was about 8 months of age. He started to gain too much weight on the kitten diet (15 lbs. at 8 mos., Siamese mix). He is an active cat, but is strictly indoors. I switched him to a light/indoor cat formulated diet and in about a month he was at normal weight. Also, the kitten diet didn't have the amount of fiber my cat needs...he has slow gastric motility, which caused problems with his GI tract. He'll always have to be on a light diet being that he's predisposed to weight gain.
My cat's vet said it was fine for him to be switched over...not healthy for him to be overweight. I guess it depends on what your cat particular needs are. I would guess an average would be sometime before their first year if they are healthy.

Answer 4

Hi, I hope this helps. I found it on the Iams website:

When To Switch?
When your cat is about 12-months of age, it's time to change his diet to a premium maintenance formula. When you transition your cat to an adult diet, it's important to monitor his weight and body condition and adjust his feeding portions if necessary. Because cats generally will eat only what they need, free-choice feeding is adequate for most cats. (Free-choice means making food available to your cat around the clock.) Indoor cats that don't get much exercise, however, may overeat if fed free-choice.. For them, portion-controlled feeding twice a day is a better routine..

To determine how much food to give your cat, check the recommendations established by the petfood manufacturer, and read the label.. Use the guidelines, and weigh your cat on a weekly basis. If your cat is gaining or losing weight and shouldn't be, slightly decrease or increase his daily intake, and weigh him again the following week..

How Do You Do It?
To avoid intestinal upsets, make the change from a kitten formula to an adult diet over a period of four days by using the following method:

Day One: Fill your cat's dish with 75-percent kitten food and 25-percent adult food.
Day Two: Mix adult and kitten food in a 50/50 ratio..

Day Three: Feed your cat a mixture that's 75-percent adult food and 25-percent kitten food..

Day Four: Switch to 100-percent adult formula

Answer 5

age switch cat kitten adult cat food

Answer 6

Usually around one year, however if you notice that your kitten is becoming overweight you should talk to your vet about switching sooner, kitten food is packed with calories that can cause older cats to put on a lot of weight.

Answer 7

1. When you neuter/spay her, you have to give food for neutered cats, that contain ingredients (DL Methionine) that keep his urinary health, especially males. So even if you neuter at 6 months old, you must switch from kitten food to adult.
2. If he's not neutered, you can change the food any time after 5-6 months, but you can continue it until 12 months.

Answer 8

9 months to 1 year. Your cat may get more hungry before he reaches the 1 year mark and some grow to maturity before 1 year.

Answer 9

If changed before day 365, there will be massive adverse consequences. Seriously, most of his growth is over, but it is often convenient to keep feeding kitten chow for the first year of their life. But this is not written in stone. Yes, marketing plays a role in the providing of kitten chow. There is a valid purpose, but as you noted, cats have been making it from kitten to adult for hundreds of years without a special kitten chow. One of my kittens refused to eat any kitten chow, and she is now 2 1/2, and doing fine, and no different from her sister who ate kitten chow. When you do the transition, do it over perhaps a week or so, changing the proportions gradually. It may not really be necessary, but that is a normal approach to dietary changes to avoid problems.

Answer 10

When they are 1 year old