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Me, again.

Zephy has quite a taste for my older cat's kibble, a royal canin formula, so I decided to change his kibble to royal canin also. The thing is that the bag says 4 months and up, and he is only 3 months. Being that this isn't the only food he eats do you think it would be a problem giving him some now? (He also eats about 2 cans a day).
I'm assuming that his occasional eating of a few main coon formula kibbles isn't a problem? I take it up when I hear him crunching, but I haven't been completely stopping him as I figured it couldn't be that bad for him. He doesn't usually get more than two before I put it out of his reach. Plus a kitten eating a giant kibble is sort of great entertainment. (crunchcrunchcrunchcrunchcrunchcrunch)

I'm not a vet, but personally I switched my cats over to adult food around six months. I was to hard trying to get the adults not to eat the baby's food and the baby not to eat the adults' food.
So I guess it's personal choice, maybe talk it over with your vet.

Well, if the little Prince won't eat kitten food there is not much use in getting it for him. He wants to be a big cat. I am sure nibbling on some Maine Coon kibble won't hurt him, let him have some. Sounds like he is doing just fine and if he is bigger than normal 1 month isn't going to make a lot of difference in the kitty food so let the little angel have at it
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Be careful. The maine coon kibble is made for larger breed adult cats and the kibbles are bigger than most. Don't let you kitten get to too many of them. He doesn't have the teeth to break up such large chunks. Make sure he is drinking lots of water so the food doesn't cause his tummy to bloat.

Julie