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Kittens with different appetites

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beenrumbled · 16/10/2020 08:26

We have two boys, littermates, 4 months old.

One eats like he has a flip top lid, the other is a grazer.

They have a mix of wet and dry food. Flip top lid is definitely putting on the pounds, and grazer is still very slim. Both up to date with wormers etc.

I just worry that grazer is not eating enough, and that his brother will end up overweight.

Anyone else have cats with different appetites? How do you balance it?

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Toddlerteaplease · 16/10/2020 08:47

Could you get micro chip feeders? Then it limits mr flip top!

beenrumbled · 16/10/2020 09:11

Toddlerteaplease

I didn't even know that was a thing!

They are being chipped next month when they are castrated, so I'm off to look at that now!

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Fluffycloudland77 · 16/10/2020 09:24

Get the microchip feeder if it carries on into adulthood but kittens are often stomachs on legs like most baby animals.

Ours had a bowl empty miaow that could wake the dead till he was adult. You planned trips to the kitchen because of the shouting.

beenrumbled · 16/10/2020 09:37

fluffy Grin The plaintive yowl is so loud!

We had just moved them to 3 meals a day, hopefully Flip Top will slow down. He does have a tendency to push grazer out too, so we tend to try and keep an eye out for that.

It's 15 years since we had a pair of kittens, and I cant remember them being like this!

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Fluffycloudland77 · 16/10/2020 09:59

Ours had 450g wet at that age over 4 meals.

beenrumbled · 16/10/2020 10:00

I might move them back to 4 meals then and see how that goes

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