By one year, your cat becomes an adult.
When it reaches adulthood, you must follow a different feeding pattern and feed your cat with a slightly different food from what you used to serve when it was younger.
Unlike when they were less than a year old and you used to feed them with food that has more proteins to develop their bones and muscles, this time, your cat need not just protein but more taurine.
It is an essential nutrient to cats' health preventing them to become blind.
Taurine is found on meat.
That is the main reason cats are carnivores or animals that feed on meat.
Unless you want a blind cat, do not deprive your cat of meat.
You should also monitor your cat's water in-take.
Like humans, they need water to avoid bladder issues at the later stage of their lives.
Vegetarian diets are not needed by your cat.
Cats eat to sustain their needs for energy and as soon as they are satisfied or as soon as they feel that they have all the energy they need, they stop eating.
They are efficient eaters and takes small but frequent meals.
So if you find yourself feeding your cat more than ten times in a day that is just how it is.
Sometimes, we tend to feed our cats with human food.
That is our way of showing affection to them.
For instance, you are watching television while munching pop corn; you feed your cat who seats on your lap with pop corn as well.
Human food is high in calories and by feeding cats with it, risks their lives.
If you would like to provide your cat with all the nutrients it needs but definitely do not see yourself throwing a mouse at it each time you need to feed it, you can also give him cat food.
There are varieties of cat food in the market.
The two main varieties are the dry and wet food.
Feeding your cat with dry food is a good choice as it is their natural diet.
But of course make sure you also get them a small amount of water as they need it too.
You can also feed them with wet or moist food, depending on your preference and veterinarian's advice.
If your cat just turned in to an adult yesterday, do not change the food that you give them instantly.
Change it in a gradual process.
You may try combining your current serving with the new food first and then increasing the new food gradually.
That helps them to adjust and prevent an upset tummy.
The most common issue on cat's health is obesity.
We tend to feed them too much or with human food.
If you need your cat to lose weight, although it is advisable to talk to your veterinarian about it, dry food that are less in calories and try feeding them on remote areas in the house which would require your cat to walk or exert effort first before eating.
That way, your cat gets to consume the food before packing its stomach up with another batch.