How do I prevent adult cat and kitten from eating each others food?

xheartbeeeaattt: How do I prevent adult cat and kitten from eating each others food?
I have two cats. One 7 years old and the other is 10 weeks old. I leave dry food out for both of them all day and I keep the kitten’s food in my room and the adult cat’s food out in the hallway.
The kitten sleeps in my room at night and it seems that whenever I bring him out to play in the day time, he likes to run to the adult cat’s food. (Vice Versa with the elder cat.)

How do I keep them from eating each others food?

Answers and Views:

Answer by brutusmom
I’ve had that problem, before, and I just let both eat the kitten food, until it was a year old. It won’t hurt the older cat, unless it’s overweight, and the kitten shouldn’t have the adult cat food.

When I was raising kittens, everyone ate kitten food, since I had to have it for pregnant / lactating females and their kittens. My other cats ate the kitten food for years, without any problems.

Hope this helps……….saves money on different foods, too! 🙂
Good luck.

Answer by Star
I think you should feed them at different times.

Answer by amy k
I really don’t think it’ll hurt either one to eat a little bit of each other’s food. As long as the kitten is eating mostly kitten food, it’s fine. Kitten food isn’t that bad for adult cats, except it is fattening for a less active cat.

Answer by Nancy S
When I was a little kid we used to have a rabbit cage ( no rabbit :o) ) and kept the feeding window open so the kittens could get in but not the adults. Maybe you can think of some way to do the same thing, an area where the kitten can get to the food but not the adult.

Answer by brennyabby2
you cant really because there doing this to tell the kitten the there the dominate cat not them.
or you could put there foods in two seprate rooms and only that cat is allowed in that room.

Answer by Ken
The way you o it is by feeding them both the same food and that would mean proper food for the species. NO DRY
Nutrition since there are so many bad things out there is very important to your cat’s health
Contrary to what you may have heard; dry foods are not a great thing to feed a cat.
Please read the label on what you are feeding? What are the ingredients? Do you know what they mean? Is the first ingredient a muscle meat like chicken or is it meal or other things? Learn what meal and other things mean here.
https://www.catinfo.org/#Learn_How_To_Rea…

Dry foods are the number 1 cause of diabetes in cats as well as being a huge contributing factor to kidney disease, obesity, crystals, u.t.i’s and a host of other problems. Food allergies are very common when feeding dry foods. Rashes, scabs behind the tail and on the chin are all symptoms of food allergies probably from the grains. Constipation? Dry food, not enough moisture. Blockages? Again not enough moisture in the food and you are risking something serious. People on this board say feed fiber but this is a cat not a dog and cats are obligate carnivores unlike dogs an they don’t eat cereal and don’t need fiber.
The problems associated with Dry food is that they are loaded with carbohydrates which many cats (carnivores) cannot process. Also, Most of the moisture a cat needs is suppose to be in the food (Cats are not naturally big drinkers) but in
Dry, 95% of it is zapped out of dry foods in the processing. Another thing, most use horrible ingredients and don’t use a muscle meat as the primary ingredient and use vegetable based protein versus animal. Not good for an animal that has to eat meat to survive.
You want to pick a canned food w/o gravy (gravy=carbs) that uses a muscle meat as the first ingredient and doesn’t have corn at all or grains at least in the first 3 ingredients if at all. Fancy feast is a middle grade food as it uses a muscle meat as the first ingrediant. 9lives, friskies whiskas are lower grade canned but still better then dry and wellness and merrick upper grade human quality foods.
Many foods are not mentioned here but if you read the labels you wiull know if it is qualaty. The price offers no guideline.
The optimum food to feed cats has no grains whatsoever, cats have no use for them and many have trouble processing them as well as the carbs. IBD is another disease that is rapidly becoming common amoung cats because of the inappropriate diets being fed.
Also, dry food is not proven to be better for teeth. Does a hard pretzel clean your teeth or do pieces of it get stuck? Why do people constantly repeat this old wives tale and put teeth over the organs like the kidneys?? (I have no clue) .

Please read about cat nutrition.
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Answer by andrei n
Find out what foods they dont like and what foods they do like for both of them, if one cat likes the food that the other cat dosent like, give the liking cat the food that the non- liking cat dosent like>?

Answer by RuneAmok Souls Eetser
You gotta keep ’em separated.

The Offspring wasn’t just talking about gang members when they wrote this song.

But seriously, unless you’re willing to intervene or can keep them separated, there’s nothing you can do.

But the good news is that it’s not going to hurt.

There is next to NO difference between adult and kitten food. Kitten food has 4% more protein than adult foods (on average) and more calories. But that’s it. Adult food has nothing that kitten food doesn’t and vice versa.

The worst that would happen is that your adult will get fat eating kitten food.

A better plan is to switch both cats to a better food, especially canned food. Wellness and Evo both make foods with either a kitten label or that are certified for all life stages.

Answer by Kat
Put thier foods in seperate neeko feeders. Check it out.

https://www.nekofeeder.com/