How to stop my kitten being SO greedy???

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Hello everyone. So my kitten is 6 months old and she is so greedy!
She has biscuits down all day and gets half a packet of wet food three times a day as this is all she can eat in one go and she's literally ripping bags open to see if there's food in there. My DD will sit at her table eating her dinner and the cat is jumping on the table to try and eat off her food - most of the time she gets locked out the room. You put anything of the floor and her nose is in it, even a cup of tea! She's been wormed regularly so it's not that, is it just a kitten thing? Please say it gets better she's driving me insane!
I've always grew up with cats but never remember them being this greedy when they were kittens!!

My 2 are exactly the same but they get fed 4 times a day. Still not enough!

One of ours is just like that - all food, including ours has to be kept shut away in cupboards! The other day, I heard rustling in the kitchen - he had got some mouldy cheese out of the food refuse bin and was eating it on the floor! The minute we get in bed, we can hear him run down to the kitchen to see what he can scavenge! He is two now, and we don't know of any solution - but he is a lovely, affectionate cat otherwise!

Good luck with that!

I feed kittens as demanded, you can't restrict a rapidly growing baby animal.

Mine was on 4 pouches a day at that age.

Fluffy - thank you will try upping her feeds to see if it gets any better!

My cats are nearly 6 and are still greedy. They even eat left over vegetables!!

She needs a lot more food than you are giving her. I don't think the sachets fill them up. Try some tinned food as well.

My kitten is 7 months and she doesn’t stop eating! she’s on wet food & biscuits but still try’s to eat everything in sight. She’s a pretty petite cat so where she puts it all is a mystery😂🤨.

Some cats just seem to be obsessed with food. My two oldest cats are indifferent. My youngest is a totally different personality and tries to steal food from plates so we have to shut him out of the room if we want to eat in peace.

Treating the cat like a dog (e.g. no attention for begging/stealing, no human food while we're eating, shutting out of the room if he persists) has definitely helped. Then again, this cat thinks he's a dog (very friendly, needy, human focused) so it may not help you with your cat!

Kittens should be free fed. She obviously needs more food.

Just a thought - is your kitten actually eating the biscuit that you leave down all day?

She may be holding out for the better option (the sachets) if she doesn't like the biscuit and knows she's going to get the sachets regularly...

My cat who has 3 legs is a greedy one constantly begging goes diving in the bin to see what leftover food is in there , jumps to try eat off my plate I have to shut him in another room with a pouch of food hes food obsessed I wonder how fat he would be if I gave in to to how much he wants to eat. Kittens are still growing so you can feed them more than the adult cat try just feeding her wet food as I find it fills him up more and its less calorie dense so not as fattening.

OP two thoughts:

1. she may be thirsty - making sure fresh water bowls are scattered around may help.

1. Is her food a really good one with no fillers (maize, soya, etc)? I had a cat like this once but when I invested in a better quality food he cut his consumption in half. Maybe worth a try?

When was the last time you wormed her?

And what worming preparation was it? Also what food are you feeding Her?

She’s a pretty petite cat so where she puts it all is a mystery

Mine is small, people usually guess 6 months but she is 7 or 8 - constant biscuits but she thinks all ham in the world belongs to her, that she should have a bit of every human food and also goes to visit neighbours, who feed her!

I remember reading that cats don’t overeat. Yeah, fucking right. Mine are the size of Labradors. Sorry no advice from me. Greedy fuckers.

It's because most cat food is full of shit so they need a lot more of it.

Thanks everyone for all the advice!
She's currently on whiskers sachets - does anyone have any recommendations of ones that are better?
She loves her biscuits and is definitely eating them and always has fresh water down!

Butchers choice is cereal free & cheap. They all love Felix but it doesn't seem filling.

Mine had a "bowl empty" miaow as a kitten, I used to dread going into the kitchen as I knew I'd get mugged for food.

Mine love Felix and Whiskers wet pouches, although I leave out grain free biscuits when we go out. In yet another futile attempt to get them onto better quality food, I bought two boxes of Nature's Menu last week! Guess what - they turn their noses up at it every meal! I threw half of last night's away this morning!

Ha ha cats are the weirdest little things!

It might just be a phase. Mine was similar at around 6 months. She'd leap at the worktop while we were dishing her food up, and really fight to get to it. We stuck to a very strict training programme- until she sat politely with her bottom touching the floor she didn't get the food. It took about three weeks, but she did learn. And now her greediness has subsided so much we can eat our dinner with her in the room, and she's completely oblivious.
However, I never got to that stage with my old boy. He never jumped on the side to get his food, but he would beg and steal if allowed to stay in the room while we ate. It could just be different personalities, but my boy had Felix pouches all his life, and my girl has fresh chicken and expensive grain-free biscuits. So gradually changing to a meat-only diet might be worth a go.

My tiny 5.5 month old is on 1 pouch for breakfast, half for lunch and 15g dry, another whole pouch for dinner and another 15g dry for overnight and he still scavenges like crazy AND finishes off what his brother eats.

I read you should free feed kittens and so upped their food and I seem to have found the ideal amount for his much larger brother but the little one is constantly hungry.

We feed James Wellbeloved grain-free pouches and dry.