My cat is always starving. Help!

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She is my first cat as an adult so I am a bit inexperienced.

She was a rescue cat and she came to us fussy and quite small. She is around 2 years old and we have had her close to a year. For months she would pick at her food, both wet and dry, nibbling at it or licking off the jelly/gravy. The last 6 weeks or so she is like a starving monster. She wants food all the time, and anything you give her she wolfs down in seconds, before looking for more. I have tried 2 wet meals a day and always having cat biscuits out, and have tried 4 smaller meals of half a pouch. She is putting on weight really badly, although she is not fat, she was definitely underweight before, and she is now spending more time indoors the last few weeks so she is less active.

Is it a winter thing? Or should I be worried. She is eating 2 cat food pouches and a bowl or 2 of biscuits every day, plus water.

OP, on average, how much are you feeding her of wet and dry a day? Do you know roughly how much she weights? It might be that it's just a bit of fat going on for the winter (or even a winter coat making her look bigger, but everyone has different expections of amounts.

My cat bulks up in the winter and slims down again in the summer. I can tell when a cold spell in coming as she tends to be really hungry leading up to it.
Unless she's unhealthy overweight I'd let her fill herself.

My cat spends his entire life sitting by his food bowl, waiting patiently for the next meal. Not sure 2 pouches is enough though, my cats have twice that with biscuits in between

Overactive thyroid?

My one year old lives by his bowl too. He is a fairly tall, lean cat so far, weighs just under 4kg. Does anyone's cat actually get by on the 2 pouches Whiskas plus 20g dry food as it says on the box?

posting here for help, getting desperate.

We've had a rescue cat for 8 weeks now. Very affectionate, loves being around humans. So far so good.

But the starvation thing is beyond a joke. She's fed twice a day dry food that the rescue centre recommended. She's put over a kilo on. But she mews constantly for food and she steals everything. Bread, sundried tomatoes, cauliflower, broccoli.

She drinks my tea.

She ate the omelette that was on the stove cooking in the pan.

She's just eaten the youngest's Hatchimel (must have flour in or something?!)

I literally can't turn my back and have to get the kids to guard the kitchen if I go to the loo.

If anyone has any tips please say because it's got to the point that it's unmanageable.

My cat who had been a starving stray also ate everything, but so did a cat who had a thyroid condition. He would eat anything and everything. Thyroid problems are very common in cats and easily overlooked as just hunger, so get a blood test, as ignored it is very bad for the heart.

Thanks, Ill do that.

I feed 3 sachets a day, plus dry once or twice a day with the wet (small amounts). I have a thin one and a fat one, fed totally separately.