Greedy arse kitten!

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My new kitten (6 months old) is always hungry and acts like a scavenger despite being fed lots of cat food.
As he was ploughing through the expensive kitten pouches I switched him on to what my older cat eats, felix as good as it looks plus a grain free dry food, whatever is on special offer.
He gets through 4 pouches a day plus two bowls of dry food and cat treats. This is more than my older cat eats and he would eat more if I put it down.
On top of this he wants to eat everything and anything going that we have.
I have a toddler so there's a lot of food going on the floor, no matter what it is my kitten eats it! If we're eating he's there jumping up and scavenging around us. I'll feed him a pouch when we're having dinner but he wolfs it down and wants more.
Broccoli, peas, crisps, cheese, pasta, drinks tea- everything.
I've caught him eating a bit of paper and the other day I split flour on the floor and he was straight in there licking it up!
Literally anything.
Now this is all very amusing for us and we don't deliberately give him human food he just gets to it when our back are turned but this doesn't seem like normal cat behaviour, more like a dog.
Should I be worried about this, up his normal cat food?
He's regularly wormed so it's not that, he is getting very big very quickly, very active too.

Anyone else have a greedy arse cat?

You have just described my cat.
He is 3 now and as greedy as ever.
Very partial to crisps and red peppers !

I'm not the only one then! Does giving him extra cat food make a difference?
Interesting it's another boy cat. My older cat is very fussy with food and female

He would eat 24 hours a day.
He was a rescue cat and I wonder was he starved and as a result is afraid to go hungry ever again.

Aw bless him, yes maybe that's the reason.
Not in our case, he's always been well looked after.
Maybe he just thinks he's a dog!

Switch to tinned food for him - it's the same stuff and much cheaper. You pay a real premium for the convenience of the pouch stuff.

I am sorry, I do not believe you have a kitten. The only way you can change my mind is to provide photographic evidence...

My two rescue boys, who were well fed, used to run out when I filled our bird feeders to hoover up any spilled bird seed. It used to break my heart because they were found under someone‘s shed and I assume they ate bird seed to survive then.

Some cats are just very greedy!

There's no chance he might need worming?

We need a picture to verify....

My boy is wormed regularly.
Makes no difference.
I have an older female tortie who eats very little..but will attack him if he looks sideways at her food.

@woollyheart
He's regularly wormed, we have a plan with vet that's deals with everything he needs for the first year so I'd say definitely not.

I have one wailing just now, he wants the curry that's cooking. He's also a coleslaw thief. The other is partial to lemon cake

Here he is! Little dustbin

He did do something very dangerous recently- jumped up on the counter and went straight to the hob when I had a big pan of boiling water

Our rescue kitten (male, black and white also!) was the same until he hit 1 a couple of months ago. Now he's just a large hairy thing that sleeps in our house. Eats when he feels like it but hasn't stolen food for months, he just stopped. He sleeps so much that last week DD thought she was stroking him for ages and it was actually her hat.

@chemenger
That's heartbreaking! At least they have a good home now

Omg!! I was literally about to write a similar post.

I feed our kitten (4 months) less than you do but she's unbelievably greedy. She steals everything including the dog food which pisses the dog off and gives her the shits.

Everything & I mean everything, has to be put away or she'll eat it - including the tea bags!!

@IHeartKingThistle that's hilarious!

Maybe it's a male cat thing. He's very different from my female cat. The greediness aside he tears round the house at all hours and is very loud. Loud mew and ridiculously loud purr. My female cat has always been shy and quiet,
He'll be having the chop in the next few months, I'm hoping that will calm him down

I fed mine as much as he wanted till he was 1. They finish their growing in a year, they need the calories.

Ah, the wee barrel tum on him. He's gorgeous : ) He's clearly just in need of lots of energy to fuel his plans for white-chinned world domination.

He just needs to grow into his whiskers. That is going to be a splendid cat

Look at the size of his paws!!! Excellent cat. I've forgotten how bonkers they can be. I had two kittens (brothers, same litter) and they would steal EVERYTHING. They also used to work as a team e.g. knocking off a saucepan of soup from the back burner of the hob - whilst it was on.

Our cat used to be like this. He's a big cat, well fed, but has always been a pain around food. Although he's got better as he's got older. He's 11 now and seems to have finally realised that we aren't going to give him our food.

I would put him back on food suitable for his age range.

I have had cats for 48 years, have never come across anything like this, sounds very odd to me tbh.

I've got two seven month olds and they eat any bits that are left on the counter/floor despite giving them plenty. At the moment they're growing and full of life, so needs lots of energy but it's that balance of how much is right to give them - I have one slimline one and other other is becoming rather cuddly.

Lovely photo btw. I have two b&w boys.