So i have two cats, one (aged 6) is rather large but has lost weight over the last year. He could probably do with losing a little bit more weight but he's definitely healthier looking now. He has always been very food focussed since we got him a couple of years ago. He's a rescue and we don't know much about his back story so have always assumed he's gone without food in his life before hence being obsessed with where his next meal is coming from.
The other cat (1) we know for a fact has always been well fed and looked after as we've had her since she was 11 weeks old. However you'd think she was a starving stray the way she behaves around food. Always up on the counter trying to get into everything, stealing food off plates - goes completely and utterly nuts at feeding time to the point she has to be locked out of the room. She's currently on the kitchen work top licking all the crumbs and butter off the bread board despite having had breakfast already.
It's like living with a pair of raccoons.
They get the same amount of food despite their size differences as they have such different activity levels. I spread the food out over 3 meals a day. She's a small cat (about 3kg) but looks very healthy - i don't think she's underweight at all. I could give her more food but want to avoid her getting fat like the other one did!
Is she hungry or just fixated on food? What can I do as it's quite annoying behaviour?! Big cat is also annoying around food but always has been. Hers is more recent behaviour and i think coincided with us going away for a week over the summer. She was getting the same amount of food from the pet sitter whilst we were away though, so i don't think she went hungry.
Should I feed her more? They only have wet food, 1 tin of high protein real meat stuff a day and then 100g or animonda carny each. As I said though she's a healthy weight and he's slightly overweight... so i don't know what to do!