What times do you feed your cats?

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My neutered male is 7 months old so he is still having three meals a day at the moment at 7am ish, 3pm and 8:30pm (approx).

I'm not sure he will be too happy if this eventually changes to once a day, but I'm hoping to cut out the afternoon meal before he's a year old.

How often do you feed your babies?

My cat is 5 and gets fed first thing Jin the morning and 5 at night. I give her dry food in the morning and one pouch of wet st night. She is overweight and getting more so. I can’t understand why! Our last cat had dried food down all day and didn’t eat wet food. He got very fat at about 5 too. What am I doing wrong?
she gets a small amount of dried food and once it’s eaten that’s it.

They are worse than kids with snacks, at least kids get to an age when they get themselves snacks. I have 2 cats and a labrador, cooking is fun 🥂

Dried food always out, bowl always empty in the morning so refilled in morning and again at night. Both get fed wet food on demand, so very active two year old probably has 3 Sheba fish flavoured pouches a day (only wet food he will eat): 7am, one left out when I go to work, treat when I come home, and supper at 7.30 when he is locked in for the night. Great hulking one year is currently only eating gourmet mon petit and getting through about 6-7 a day.
I need to get a second job….

Kibble down all day, and a sachet of stupidly expensive treat food at about 7pm, to entice them.in from outside so.I can shut them in for the night.

Dry food down all the time and half a pouch each morning and evening. They are pretty chilled about food, quite often leave some of the wet food and rarely hassle me for it, which is v weird for cats, although love a dreamie or a bit of ham.

Ours gets two pouches split over three or four meals, depending on who’s at home. She is very greedy and can’t have dry food left out to graze on.

All sodding day
He has breakfast, second breakfast, lunch, afternoon snack, tea, supper, midnight snack
And he's still 3.2kg

Mine is 8 now and gets a pouch in the morning and another in the evening, plus a small handful of dry a day to snack on. In really cold weather sometimes an extra half pouch if he's mega hungry. I don't really restrict wet food as he's a healthy weight. We recently moved and he's starting to hunt a bit so perhaps eating a little less.
He had cystitis in the past so we do keep the dry food to a minimum. Thankfully he's a good drinker by cat standards.

"I'm starving, you NEVER feed me"

Overnight, a couple of mice. Minus the tails, kidneys and guts, which are usually proudly displayed on the hall carpet.
Breakfast, one pouch of wet food (fish).
Lunch, dry kibble, plus a few treats - Dreamies, Dentabites, or catnip crunchies.
Supper, one pouch of wet food (meat or poultry).
Treats on demand. And an occasional sparrow or starling. Usually plucked in the hall and the feathers distributed widely for dramatic effect!

Biscuits all the time, wet food when I get up, which can be anywhere between about 5 am and 7:30 am, and ideally in the evening about 5 pm, but they usually come looking for it about 3:30, and then fight, so I give in! And at night time I give them a few Dreamies just to get them downstairs before I go to bed.

Morning and evening, a pouch of wet food each.

I’d love to be able to leave a bowl of dry food down for grazing but a) none of mine are capable of rationing and b) no matter what brand of dry food I buy, Boy Cat gets horrendous diarrhoea.

Ours have a packet of wet food at about 6am and 5pm and have access to dry food. I know my husband gives more dry food than me.

Around 8 in the morning and 4 in the afternoon, he decided when we got him (he was 5 and is now 14) that he wanted to eat at the same time as the kids did

My furry overlord only likes her food when v fresh, so she has wet food when she arises, anytime from 7am - 10am, then she is fed again when she asks, anytime from about 5pm onwards. She has dry biscuits down all the time but only eats those if she is desperate

My 2 stalk me until they get breakfast anywhere between 8 & 10.

And eat dinner quite late.

Dry food out all the time.

They are both very active and slender.

Quoting my own post to say I have just today found biscuits she really seems to love. They are called 'Perfect Fit Senior' and I got them in Home Bargains, cos despite having 3 full pouches a day she is always crying for food, yet is tiny!

We leave wet and dry food out all day, though in really hot weather we put less in the bowl, so it doesn't go manky.

We've only had one cat out of four who ate big meals. The other three all graze. The meal eater was the only fat one.

Dried food available all day. Wet food when I get home from work, usually around 5pm. I don't give wet food in the mornings because it attracts flies during the day if she doesn't eat it all. She doesn't look like it, but she really is a bugger for moaning for wet food then eating none.

Mine have dry down all day too. When I wake up they have a pouch each then at bedtime. If I gave them wet food earlier, big cat would never come in at bedtime, it's the only thing that gets her in. Little cat thinks that each time I emerge from my bedroom it's good time, so he sometimes gets extra because I love him and he's very persuasive. They aren't that fussed on dreamies but do love a bit of ham, chicken or a stick thing.

My 5 year olds have biscuits down all day and half a pouch of wet food each at 8.30am, 5pm and 10pm

Well going by these posts, my cat is either getting fed elsewhere or she’s very inactive compared to other cats, I can’t understand why she’s so fat!

We have one cat who will scream for wet food, and nip toes if there is any delay. There is no way of avoiding it. He has breakfast and elevenses, sometimes lunch if he's still awake, then he mugs the kids on their return from school and makes out I've starved him all day, then there's tea, supper and I leave him an overnight pouch to prevent him biting DH in the night depending on how I am feeling towards DH However his sister won't ask for food at all, partly because she doesn't need to I guess but she does eat what's out. Occasionally she gives a hard stare but that's it.

I got told off by the vet for freepouring the biscuits, he was getting fat. We now give him a pouch at about half 7 and a pouch at about half 5 (he will stare and miaow at me when I'm doing the kids dinner) and a cup of biscuits that we measure out in the morning too.

He wolfs all of it down in 2 seconds so I do worry it's not enough!

Ours get half a pouch of wet food each at 6am and 2pm ish, later at weekends. They also have free access to biscuits that get topped up once a day on average.

They're 7, 6 and 2.