How much do you feed your cat?

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On the back of an article in The Sunday Times today about cats getting fatter in lockdown. My 9yr old neutered boy is 6 kilos and I need to get him to a healthier weight before his check-up in April. He did lose a kilo last year due to stress of having a puppy in the house (definitely not how I want him to lose weight). He was so stressed and losing fur that I had to rehome pup (who is now with an amazing woman and very happy)

Puss is back to his usual happy self and the weight is back on. It isn’t helped by my NDN who has an open door policy for all the cats in the neighbourhood, with food and treats left out all day for them. I have asked him to not feed my cat but he continues to leave food and cat treats out instead of just feeding other cats when they visit him.

My cat is very fussy about his food. He only like Felix 7+ fish flavour wet food. He isn’t keen on dry food. He gets one pouch in the morning and a scoop of Purina light (which he tolerates). I also feed fresh tuna and cooked chicken liver very occasionally for variety. He doesn’t like fresh chicken or sardines. I adopted him when he was 2 and his food preferences were already fixed.

I do give him 5 dreamies a day (I count them) after playing with him but I think that will have to stop.

I don’t think he is catching prey to eat as usually he would bring it home to show me and he hasn’t done that for ages (except when pup arrived and he brought home 3 live catches in one day to prove to me that he was more useful than pup 😕)

Really I’m pissed off with NDN, who just fibs to me that he doesn’t feed my cat when I know that he does. I can’t stop puss going out, he needs the exercise and he loves being outdoors, but he does go straight to next door first, and it’s not out of friendliness as he hates everyone except me.

Any suggestions or is it fat club for puss?

Came on to post what our cats get fed, then realised I was embarrassingly different to everyone else.

During the winter:
Dc1 - half a tin and very small sprinkling of biscuits every other day (available on demand when ever she asks for it)
Dc2 - half a tin and some biscuits everyday (again on demand but works out as roughly this)

During the summer:
Dc1 + dc2 - practically nothing .

Can you tell they are prolific hunters!

This is him right now, in his favourite spot 😍

@SourMilkGhyll, as long as they’re healthy, are they farm cats?

He must be eating the neighbours food as my cat would go mad on so little. He is a neutered Male and quite a big cat.. he has a wet pouch in the morning, one in the evening and I leave a bowl of dry biscuits out 24/7. He nibbles at these on and off throughout the day. Never goes through a bowl in a day though

Neutered male weighed just under 4.2kg at his MOT last March. The vet was happy with his weight and shape.
He has 30g dry and 1 tin wet Thrive each day, occasionally he has a Blink pouch instead. He occasionally has some boiled chicken or turkey breast so I reduce the dry food for those days.
He was having 35g dry at one point but the vet felt he was getting a little porky so we reduced it.
He is the sort of cat who could easily get very fat as he loves eating!

Puss is back on 2 x 100g pouches a day and a bowl of dry food (about 75g) and still getting his treats. I just have a big cat. He isn’t particularly greedy, he doesn’t always eat his pouch in one go and I usually have to throw some of his dry food away and put out fresh.

Our old girl was HUGE. Im my defense I adopted her and she was massive and we managed to get her weight down to just over 6kg. The vet was happy with that weight and she was a big cat, big head, long legs etc. However she did it eat more like what your feeding yours now apart from no dry as it gave her crystals in her urine.
My 2 new cats i haven't got a clue what they weigh but our boy cat is super long and lean while our girl is tiny. They probably get a tin and a half a day and high quality dry food. I feed him a bit less than what he needs and her a bit more cause he steals her food!

Mine gets free access to dry food ( won't eat wet), plus whatever he kills. 6.8Kg neutered boy. At his annual MOT he's poked around by the vet who eventually remarks "oh, he's not actually fat is he?".
He's a moggie, but just naturally a huge cat.

Mine are 5, 4 and eight months.

They get unlimited dry food and a pouch of Felix each per day.

Despite me ignoring his telephone calls to the RSPCA I now realise from above that I may be starving Haribo . He has a bit of Whiskas for breakfast and 2 scoops of Hills dry during the day. He seems to be always hunched over his bowl stuffing his face and nagging for more. I followed the guidelines on the bag of food.

He has had diarrhoea the last few days, wormed a few days before and I've kept him in. I think he's developed an intolerance to Dreamies as he had a couple on Monday night and we woke up to yellow sick on the sofa. No more Dreamies and no sick since.

I remember a conversation with a neighbour a while back about him drinking his cat's milk. He may have been eating his food too hence the diarrhoea and I know another neighbour puts dried food in her shed for local cats (not strays just greedy buggers).

He's drinking plenty of water and fine in himself.

I reckon he's not having enough at home and pigging out next door! Our cat is 4kg and in great shape. She gets 2 tins of thrive a day and free access to kibble.

pippin has dry food down at all times, to graze on. and i was giving her the equivalent of 1 pouch of whiskas a day(half in morning and half in evening) but then she became less interested in the wet. so i was just giving her half a pouch a day, but now she is barely touching that too. so will prob just stick to dry food and give the occassional pouch once or twice a wk. i give the occassional treat as and when(but no more than once a day)