Chonky cat

[yorkypuds]

We have three cats that came together from rescue, 2 girls and 1 boy. They are house cats as the boy kept wandering and sitting in the busy main road near by!
They are fed one pouch of food a day and have kibble to eat as and when they want to throughout the day!
Boy cat is becoming a bit of a chonk! How can we limit his access to kibble whilst allowing the girls to have it? Or do we need to move to meal times and then take it up?
Ideas please 🐈‍⬛
Thank you

It’s the kibble - there isn’t much nutrition in it, it’s like feeding a child monster munch. Dry food also is not good for cats in general, especially males. I would swap them all to a high protein wet food and feed that twice a day. In between if you want to feed treats give them freeze dried chicken.

I don’t think there’s any need to leave kibble out all the time. I’d switch to regular mealtimes. It’s what I’ve done with all my cats. I’m sure my current cat would be balloon sized if we left food out for him all the time.

If he bullies the girls for food you either feed them separately or feed them in microchip feeders.

And he needs weighed quantities of food as meals, not free access to kibble.

My experience of cats is that like humans some can naturally regulate their food intake and some really can't.

There is some dry food called 'appetite control' made by Royal Canin. We used that with our fosters, who were all extremely food driven when we got them, and it did the trick.

I've got a chubster. Both cats are fed the same but my big, bossy girl is overweight. Partly laziness I think, and she'll steal food, or eat her brother's at any opportunity. She also tells like she's being starved. I feed them separately most of the time and ignore her when she complains she wasting away.

Great, I'll take the kibble away then! I will await the howls of hunger!