Greedy arse kitten!

[pollysproggle]

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?

Our two were exactly like this, at this age, although they didn't care for human food. They were eating machines though, and were very active. We just fed them generous amounts and made sure there was always a snack available. We had to control their intake once they were 4 or so, as both of them got a little chunky then, as their activity levels dropped off. If you're really concerned, I'd pop him into the vet just to check that it's "normal" for him. I expect he's just growing like a weed and is absolutely fine.

YES! Me too! We have 2 kittens, one of them is getting through 5x pouches a day of the poncy expensive stuff: and she'd have more if we let her! she will NOT eat dry food at all! The other kitten eats dry and 1 pouch a day!

Thank you! Yes he's a little darling- drives my DH up the wall but the kids and I think he's hilarious.
That's what I'm worried about- him eating a dangerous amount. I think I'll up the pouches to 5 a day (they're adult size) and hopefully it'll satisfy him a bit more.

@planechocolate my mum suggested tins too but I buy in bulk and the pouches are easier to store.

@Alfie190
He has had kitten food up until recently but he was eating all my older cats leftovers anyway so didn't think it mattered. His dry food is a kitten food so he's getting extra nutrients from that

OP, your kitten is adorable.

My cat, who will be 16 in March, is totally food-driven. He has always been a housecat and has never missed a meal in his life. He gets through massive quantities of food and always acts as though he is two fingers away from death by starvation.

I keep mine in a garden seat store/welly store thing. I think it's paid for itself!

Oh he looks like my boy! He's 6.5 months now he used to be very fussy with his food but since we've changed it he is a machine!

Can I join the greedy kitten club?

We have two 7 month old male b&w kittens and one in particular is ridiculously greedy. He constantly jumps up on the bench while you’re dishing out his food (or your own food). He licks any leftover bits from the sink, tries to steal from the bin, eats bread you put out for the birds. He acts like he is constantly starving. He has been wormed so it isn’t that.

He only seemed to become this greedy after being neutered... and the problem is, he is also lazier since being neutered. He’s getting a bit of a tummy on him now so we’re having to be careful about how much he gets, especially with treats etc. Our previous male cat was also super greedy and he was overweight all his life so we really want to avoid that.

It’s funny because our other kitten (his brother) is nowhere near as greedy and is also much more active and less chubby! Our older female cat is the fussiest eater in the world and a tiny little thing. It would be nice if there was a happy medium!

Excellent pic @hartof. Shame on all you lot with lovely kittens and no pics posted. I have much sage advice but refuse to post, unless bribed with pics of kittens.

Here they are!

Ah gwhiz! That's a cute pic I regret not getting a littermate for our kitten and the husband can't be convinced now to get another.

These kittens are so cute! We definitely need a greedy club.
I started yesterday with x 5 pouches plus x 2 bowls of dry, he still jumped up and tried to eat my 2 year old lasagne. I should have called him Garfield.

Does anyone shut their kittens in a separate room at night? I don't like the idea and so far he's been free to roam but last night he did a wee on my eldest bed, while he was still sleeping in it! My poor DS (11) woke up thinking he'd wet the bed then realised it was the kitten. Litter box was clean and unused so I'm not sure why he did it.

My first cat, male, was as good as gold. You could leave liver you had cooked for him (and he knew it was his) in the kitchen and he wouldn't go near it.

My last cat, female, was a rescue. She'd been left shut out of her home with another, and they'd had to live on whatever they could find for who knows how long. She was a scavenger - would jump up on the table and try to steal from plates, would nosy through piles of dirt my mother had swept up, and nosy through plastic bags. In the 15 years we had her she emptied her bowl only a handful of times - we believe she was scared we wouldn't feed her again and wanted to know there was always something to come back to.

My current cat, also female, is fine now but was a terror when younger. Licked some defrosting fish I'd left out in the kitchen, and did the same to a cockerel I had there. I bunged both in the oven and the humans are still alive! She is much better now, thankfully. The most amusing time was when I'd made a Tres Leches cake - fatless sponge soaked in a mixture of evapourated milk, condensed milk and cream. I'd spilt a little on the floor so left it for when HRH came in. When she appeared she duly licked it up as requested.

I turned round to get the meringue icing from the mixer, turned back and found my VERY helpful girl being VERY helpful - she'd found more of the mixture so thought she'd better lick that up for me too. Only thing was that mixture was soaking in the cake! She only got a wee corner so I cut it off (ate it, obviously) and iced the rest of the cake!

I have a pair of 7 month old female kittens. They eat everything, I say it's like living with a Labrador. They pick up mess off the floor, steal... not keen on their kitten food though. They are Bad Babies!

Mine do still like to eat anything that isn't nailed down.

However he is still a growing lad - I thought the advice was kitten food until 1 year?

Also Felix may be as good as it looks, but it is still full of cereals and fillers. Since I gave mine Animonda Carny, they have slowed up as it is really meaty.

But with neutered kittens you do have to keep an eye. One of my girls is quite lazy and started to develop a tum so rationing has been introduced.

Our 6 month old boy kitten is like this. We have to shut him in another room when we eat, as no amount of removing him, saying no etc works. He will eat anything. He loves bread!

So cute! I'm noticing a trend here with black and white kittens.

@AnnaMagnani
I do give him a dry kitten food that's grain free and he was having natures menu kitten food but with the amount he was eating it was costing too much, £70 + a month if he stayed on that!

Yes- are black and white kittens greedier?

I've only had tabbies. While some of those were a bit greedy, they were not in the league of some of yours.

My tubby tabby girl is 8 and still very much like this. She's been known to go next door and eat the neighbour's dogs' food after hoovering up her own breakfast and whatever she finds on the kitchen floor. It's just a grotesque and embarrassing part of her character but she's still my whole world... Even at 5am when she's shouting like she hasn't eaten in a week. Don't hold your breath for change

There’s a definite black and white trend going on! Our last greedy boy was black and white and he would scavenge empty food pouches from neighbours’ bins and bring them home to chew up! He once grabbed a duck breast from my OH’s plate and ran under the bed with it to swallow it whole before we could get to him. He was awesome, everyone that looked after him when we were on holiday would be worried he was starving but he had a huge belly so it was pretty obvious that he wasn’t!

My non-greedy, fussy cat is a tabby.

pollysproggle we tend to shut our kittens in a separate room overnight, otherwise they wake us up by scratching at the door or they harass our older cat when she’s trying to sleep. We sometimes let them roam at weekends when we don’t mind broken sleep so much! They don’t seem to mind and don’t cry to get out or anything, but then we have done this since we got them so I don’t know if they are just used to it? Might be harder to introduce as a new thing!

hartof they’re gorgeous together, it’s fab seeing how much they love each other. Never had a pair of kittens before so it’s our first experience of such brotherly love! Mind you, it does make me worry about if something happened to one of them...

Thanks @gwhizz75

We have a small utility room so I'm going to set him up in there tonight and see how he gets on. I can't have him peeing in the bedrooms. DS is on the sofa tonight because his mattress stinks! New one ordered