We’ve got two 15 week old rescue kittens. They’ve been here a week and settled in brilliantly. For the first few days they’d happily eat their wet food slowly side by side. In the past few days the boy has wolfed down his pouch of kitten food and moves on to his sisters bowl while she is still eating. She’s more of a grazer and eats a half to two thirds and then wanders off (later she comes back to the kitchen). But he often eats hers or she moves aside once he muscles in. We’ve lifted her bowl once she’s temporarily finished and put it aside but he’s been jumping into the counter to reach it and tearing cling film off etc! They’re on three pouches of high meat content kitten food a day with biscuits down all day. The boy is now noticeably larger than the girl from the week he’s been with us.
Can kittens overeat? Should I give the boy more at mealtimes like 1.5 pouches?
Shall I carry on trying to separate their food or let them get on with it? It’s hard to put them in different rooms as the litter tray is in the kitchen so that is where they are fed. Of my old cats my female would never have tolerated the other pushing in on her bowl so I’ve not dealt with this before!