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Squirrel and Panther went off kitten food at about 6 months and onto general indoor cat food (I mixed the two for a while, so they could transition). I had a grown cat in the home with them and he ate their food--I tolerated it for a while, because he'd been missing and came back scary-skinny to where kitten food was probably the best thing for him anyway, but when he got a little pudgy it became clear that he didn't need it any more. I tried to feed them separately but it was just too hard with my schedule (grad school), and I've always believed in free-feeding from kittenhood because my experience is that if cats are used to it from when they're little, they'll be able to handle it when they're grown and stay at a healthy weight with activity instead of measuring everything.