How much wet food daily?

[Bogburglar75]

Morning

Bogbastard has had a couple of bouts of cystitis so after good advice on here (thank you) Im moving him to all wet food. He is enjoying those tins of Applaws plus Sheba pouches. Unlike the dry which he nibbled at through the day he now polishes the bowl and informs me later that he is STARVING

How much by weight/amount do you feed yours if you give all wet? He's a big beast - 5kg+, neutered and having a very active summer out in the garden climbing fifteen feet up the wisteria and so on.

[DameDiazepamTheDramaQueen]

Puccini is a really small cat, on the Advocate packet he comes under the same as ferret size

He has dry Iams in a bowl for snacking plus 2-3 85gm pouches of Sheba but rarely finishes it all so probably eats 2 pouches. Some days I give him raw beef instead of Sheba.

[Lillagroda]

Mine get one 55g pouch and two 85g tins a day, but they are smaller, 3.9kg and 4.2kg respectively, and indoor only. This is fine to maintain them at that weight.
They have only been on all wet and natural for two months following years of IBD misery with one of them, and only since then has she stopped being picky and started to ask for more, at the tender age of ten, so it could just be that it's really really tasty, rather than actual hunger!

[hollinhurst84]

Mine is fed all wet but tends to be lean (was down to 3.5kg)
He usually eats 3 pouches a day, but often drops to 1 on his "NOT hungry momma!" days
I basically give him as much as he wants, as he doesn't get fat

[Bogburglar75]

Thank you. It sounds as if we might be selling him a bit short - he's been having one 85g tin per day and between one and two of those 50g Sheba pouches. I may need to be slightly more sympathetic to the pathetic meows and pointed looks at the empty bowl!

[hollinhurst84]

Sometimes I give half a pouch then when he begs, give the other half
Seems to fool him that he's had two meals

[cozietoesie]

Seniorboy is now about 3.3 kg and generally finishes off 4 pouches of Country Hunter over 2.5 days. (Plus he has cold meat for lunch and a 'pudding treat' of some sort in the early evening. )

He's not only indoor though - and has a good number of years on him - but isn't exactly ......active any more. It being high summer, I have actually turned off his electric blanket but most of the year he likes to luxuriate on that rather than strutting.

[PinkSparklyPussyCat]

Harry has 20g of James Wellbeloved dry for breakfast and 2 x 10g for lunch and supper. For dinner he has a Nature's Menu pouch, either the normal one or Country Hunter, depending on what comes out of his food basket!

[WellWhoKnew]

2 -3 pouches per day per cat but they are indoor cats. They are moving to the country soon and will be allowed out to roam the fields. I expect to be giving them 3 or so per day, but I do top up with Royal Canin Anti-hairball for one of the cats.

[PinkSparklyPussyCat]

Any chance of a new picture of Seniorboy cozie?

[cozietoesie]

I have some from last night but they're a bit dark. I'll try to take another today if the sunshine holds.

[hollinhurst84]

Ollie says in reality he is starving and clearly never gets fed

[cozietoesie]

Ha. What weight is he now post-escapade?

[hollinhurst84]

He hasn't been weighed recently. I'm working on sitting on the scales with clicker training next but so far we have sit and also touch my hand with paw
He's a lot glossier though but I can still clearly feel his spine

[Fluffycloudland77]

Asbo weighs 6.1kg and has 4-5 pouches a day. He isn't fat.

[DameDiazepamTheDramaQueen]

Omg that must cost you a fortune Fluffy!!

Good job they're all so cute

[cozietoesie]

Seniorboy working hard this afternoon.

[hollinhurst84]

Awww! I want to snuggle him, he is adorable

[DameDiazepamTheDramaQueen]

Awww!

[PinkSparklyPussyCat]

He's gorgeous! If I was to have a breed rather than a domestic shorthair (Harry is not a moggy!) I would have a Siamese. DH isn't keen though so he might have to go...

[cozietoesie]

I felt a positive glow of pride when The Lodger was registered by our new practise as a DSH.

[cozietoesie]

practice


That was the autocorrect. Clearly just wanting to keep me on my toes.

[Fluffycloudland77]

You'd think senior boy would've earned Friday afternoons off by now.

[cozietoesie]

Not at all - being elegant and beautiful is a 24/7 job!

[NeedACleverNN]

Toots is just coming up to 6 months and has half a pouch/foil or 8 frozen nuggets mixed in with two teaspoons of biscuits a day.

She has biscuits free range and I see her eating them and drinking water.

She can't be starving as she will eat half of what I serve and go back later for the rest

[PinkSparklyPussyCat]

Harry is a DSH on all his documents!