how much does your cat eat (YAWN I know but please humour me..)

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I give mine a pouch each a day and sometimes there is dried food and odd scraps like cheese adn stuff.

they kill stuff

they always beg

am i under feeding.

thank you thnk you.

mine eats about 4 times that

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I think you may be underfeeding but i think I may be to.

Ours have a pouch meal and a dry meal plus a real food treat. Our male cats kills.

Ours has 2 pouches a day or 1 and some dried food, but she is tiny - my parents cats have 2/3 tin a day each

my cat's box of Felix states that the average cat (3.5kg) needs 3 pouches a day

2-3 pouches and some dried stuff

and usually about one mouse a night

Ours are five months old though, not aure when they stop being kittens and become cats.

cats don't tend to eat very much of what they kill

2 pouches each per day (morning and night)
bowl of dry food always out, topped up about twice a day

yuonger (bigger) cat scavs food that the baies drop from their highchairs

One Pouch!

that's not enough.

Should be at least 2 meals a day and one pouch is a meal.

My girl cat can never eat a full pouch, the boy always polishes it off for her. The boy cat also has a number of obliging ladies that feed him.

iota - i find most mornings a dead mouse at the door and its down to its bare bones with a head and tail attached

thank god i dont have a cat flap or shed bring it in the house

Ours never eats what it kills, it always brings its prey to me usually minus the head

TSAP - at 5 months they are only half grown - I'm sure they will ramp up when they are older

They are starting to loose their kitten look epsecially the boy, However when I see them near other cats I realise how small they are.

at 5months our kitten was as big as our older cat.
hes now 8 months old and is huge compared to her

lol - maybe that is why they eat what they kill. I might have to introduce an evening pouch then.

thanks everyone.

Both of mine have a self service situation going on, I fill their bowls with a cup full if dried food (Royal Cairn for oap) and top up when it runs low or their meows become too much to bear. Mine are agoraphobic and sleep a lot and a little on the podgy side, but the food arrangement suits us all fine.

My cat has dried food in the morning (usually lasts until afternoon) and one pouch at tea time. I don't think its enough actually, but she's podgy not skinny. She does sleep a lot, then when she goes out to find a mouse, she plays with it till it dies of fright, then she leaves it because it's not fun anymore. So perhaps she needs more exercise, I don't know, but she seems happy enough.

My two kittens got fat because the kids were feeding them. They're now down to 2 pouches and two scoops of dried food between them per day and are looking much better and fitter.

I think it's better to err on the side of under feeding, especially if they hunt.