A really stupid question: but how often do you feed your cat?

[ScaredButUnavoidable]

Just that really!

And what do you feed them?

I offer mine three meals a day (wet pouches mixed with a small handful of dry food). She doesn’t always eat them. She has Sheba soup at bed time and wolfs that down.

They eat dry food only - have never had wet food. Purina One. Two hand fulls once a day. Had both cats since kittens and they’ve always been healthy. Except now one is putting on weight as he has stopped being so active (they are both 11). Their teeth and fur and health are all excellent.

half a tin of purina wet food each in the morning (they leave most of it if it’s a full tin.) and then biscuits on the evening.
Treats whenever they look like they are starving.

7am and 6pm.
Wet food and biscuits.

Twice a day first thing and late afternoon. Any less and he just pesters us and gets a bit violent 😅.

He started refusing all wet food so now we buy a quality dry food in 10kg bags (hills) and pray he doesn't go off that too.

It's actually very convenient. Less smelly, easier to clean and we can give him a couple of days worth if we go away overnight.

Dry food plates filled daily and 3 have wet food. - 1 has 4 pouches a day (he doesn’t eat dry food) and 2 get 1/2 a pouch at 7:30 am/pm

Four times a day.

1 x pouch at 7am
1/2 pouch at midday
Cat soup or lick-e-lix or dreamies at 4pm
1 x pouch at 9pm

We have two males and they both get the same, they both weigh around 4.5kg and go outside so probably supplement with dead creatures, grass etc.

They both get milk twice a day as well (7am and 9pm).

I feed mine a tin of wet food in the morning and half a tin in the early evening, plus a portion of dry biscuits that I leave out all day. I should say she's a small spayed female so that's why I only feed half a tin in the evening.

Depends on the cat..

Dry food is out 24/7 for free feeding but 2 of my 3 just graze on it. One only eats wet food once a day and won't finish a full portion, another has wet food 3x a day and an extra portion over night. The 3rd prefers dry food but likes to graze on a few mouthfuls of wet food through the day.

Twice a day - one pouch of Harringtons wet each meal and Scrumbles dry is kept topped up, usually works out to about a handful a day. Not at a fixed time really as she’s grazer, so doesn’t make much odds when it is.

I try to stick to 2 tins a day of the gourmet pate

She is overweight

OH feeds her whenever and it makes me cross

She's always sitting at the bowl looking for stuff or tripping us up in the kitchen and then he feeds her but she really does need to get the weight off

I reckon she probably weighs about 9lb and should be 7lb.

On demand.

I have 3 cats- usually one pouch wet food in the morning and one on the evening, plus a good handful of dry at lunch time if I'm in. If they pester me lots between meals I give small handfuls of dry

I can’t leave food down as they’d just demolish it so they have half a tin of untamed each for breakfast, 15g dried untamed at lunch and another tin of untamed between them for dinner. They have a lick e lix as a snack at 3.30 and a few dreamies at 9 with a brush. It’s like a constant cat cafe in our house!

Kibble available all day and topped up when she can see the bowl in the middle
Bedtime wet food with her medication crushed up in it for her arthritis

Thanks everyone, I have been looking online and there is so much conflicting information.

I have a female cat who is about 3.2kg (last weighed at the vets a month or so ago).

A lot of online information seems to say it should be based on their calorie needs so maybe I need to stay paying more attention to that as opposed to frequency of feeds.

I have never weighed out her food before but it seems like that’s a common thing to be doing?

Used to be 100g mornings and evening, plus a handful of dry at lunchtime. Worked fine for a while, but then he got overweight so we swapped out the dry food for wet. So now it‘s 3 x 100g of wet. He doesn’t drink enough water so in summer I often spread that out into 5 or 6 smaller meals (I work from home) and mix them with water.

We had a live-in catsitter in winter who was astonished that he had three mealtimes and did the whole ‘no cat I’ve ever sat has had more than two meals’ spiel - this thread shows that it’s not uncommon, depending on the cat.

He’s a large built cat so a healthy weight is 12-13 pounds, 6 to 6.5 kilos.
(Edited to add his weight)

We have 2 cats, they go in the garden but are mostly indoor cats. We leave dry food out at all times, but give 2 sachets in the morning and at night.

They have a wet pouch in the morning and evening then supper of dried food just before bed. If they ask, they get extra dried food

We no longer leave dried food out during the day as we have a visiting 'not our cat' who is on a restricted

Mix of wet and dry food is advised by my vet -

Half a pouch of wet food twice a day, if I put more she doesn’t eat it and it dries out then I keep the dry food topped up.

She’s a small lass who grazes so I make sure there is always food she will eat.

1 or 2 pouches a day, usually morning and evening but depends if she’s eaten whats there. Dry food topped up as needed. Bag of dry food last us months so she mainly just eats the wet food.

Shes a small, getting older (13) house cat so she doesn’t eat that much.

My brother’s cat is a large young active male. He eats at least triple what my cat does!

1 70g pouch shared in the morning, 1 85g pouch shared in the evening, dry ad lib. He eats more of the wet, she eats more dry. I did restrict the dry a bit and use the lightweight recipe as he was a little chubby, but as he's terminally unwell and losing weight they are back on ad lib and their standard. She's always self regulated how much she eat.

6 times a day. Hear me out...
We have an automated biscuit feeder so his daily biscuits are split into 4 portions and then he has one pouch of wet food split into breakfast and dinner. He eats way too fast any other way and sometimes vomits it straight back up this also stops him waking us at 5:30 for food and means his meals are regular even when we are at work or out for the day
ETA he gets 60g of scrumbles dry food a day and one pouch of either scrumbles, lily's kitchen or similar so all high protein. He's 5.5-6kg (top end in winter he didn't like to go out as much in the cold!) , vet says he's a healthy weight for his frame, he's long. He's half Bengal and half British short hair

I have 4 and they are ALWAYS hungry. Its a nightmare. They each have a full wet pouch in the morning and another in the evening. We supplement this with dry food and quite often, little bits of whatever I am making eg, ham, chicken, tuna. It still never seems enough