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

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Just that really!

And what do you feed them?

Mine has free flowing access to dry food (Hills) throughout the day to graze on. She’s very good at only eating what she needs and is slim/ healthy weight. My previous cat would eat whatever was there and eat too much and gain weight so I was a lot stricter with her. I don’t give wet food

We have very different sized cats, our biggest boy is 6.5kg and not fat. The smallest girl is barely 2.5kg and just diddy. They all get a pouch of food with a handful of biscuits at 8am and 6pm and have dry biscuits down to free-feed.

Dry food is available all the time and she has a wet pouch in the morning and at supper time. She rarely eats the whole pouch. She tends to graze and doesn’t pester for food at all. She’s just under 3.5kg so quite small.

Ours has hills metabolic because he’s a chunky monkey! 60g split over 4 meals including breakfast in the electric feeder at about 4.30am which is the only way to stop him tickling my face with his whiskers to wake me up & feed him.

we think he was a stray at some point before we adopted him. He would literally never stop eating if we weren’t this strict.

oh and a little corner of ham when I make dc’s packed lunch in the morning 🥰

Once a day I fill her bowl with Iams. She won’t eat anything else. She barely eats much of that tbh. She does top up with mice though and eats them entirely bar their heart which she leaves in her food bowl for me.

Haribo would say not enough. He has Hills Science perfect weight. A measured scoop in the morning and a scoop in the evening. If a slave is at home during the day he gets half a scoop at lunchtime. The softest slave (not me) gives him treats, steamed chicken, a bit of tuna tinned or fresh and titbits during dinner if it's not vegetarian or curry although he has been known to steal enjoy butter chicken.

He has taken to sit by a neighbours back door with his paws resting on the doorstep giving an I'm starving look but she knows him too well to cave in.

Wet food 3 times a day. Morning, dinner time and before I got to bed. Dry food is always available.

My two rescue tabbies inhale food three times a day!

I have three cats, and some days all iI feel like I do is feed them! They are generally fed between 7-8 am wet food, then wet food again at 6pm ish
They have dry food available all day, and miaow when they want dreamies or treats, which is about a billion times day each 🙄. If they keep on and I'm home I'll give them half a pack of wet food and there usually bugger off then. They also have treats like chicken, tuna etc.

8 cats. Everyone has a pouch and dry food twice a day 7am and 7pm. Can't leave food out because one has an eating disorder and just keeps going. Oldest is 19 and he has another two small meals a day. There may be snacks and cat milk dished out at 11pm depending on who's around.

I actually think that a lot of people are underfeeding. The feeding guidelines often say 3-4 sachets a day.

1 pouch at breakfast. Sometimes 2 if he fools someone else in the household that he hasn't been fed. 1 in the evening. Sometimes some treats. Then whatever my neighbour feeds him. Don't know why my neighbour feeds him, he just asked me one day if I fed him adult cat food and when I confirmed said "good, that's what I've bought" He feeds him outside, so I'm not bothered he's trying to steal him. Cat is old and skinny so maybe he thinks we're starving him.

My lovely tabby girl is overweight but she is also quite a long and tall cat so I think probably predisposed to this. She has a scoop in the morning and a scoop at night of Purina One dry food and she will only eat the chicken flavour. Apart from the weight she is very healthy and lovely shiny coat,- I think she is just a bit too sedentary.

Breakfast tea and supper wet food with dry biscuits to snack on at various intervals in the day

One sachet in the morning then a few cat biscuits then about 6 dreamies then 3 dentafix biscuits and I am I trouble if it doesn’t come in that order! He is meant to be fed at 5 with another sachet and a few biscuits but no dreamies. He usually manages to get that put forward to 4.20 and I give into the pestering mostly dish ate clean. He has informed me he would also like lunch and supper but at at least 6.5 kilos it isn’t happening. He was a rescue cat as soft as butter. He wears a collar saying I am very greedy please don’t feed me. He used to go into other houses and finish of their cats food I don’t b think he does now.

It’s not normal but Finlay eats and eats and eats even more
When he deigns to come home he will demand up to 3 sachets of wet food - biscuits - dreamies, sticks, licky lux etc and anything else he can get away with!
He can then disappear for days so we just go with the flow! Vet says he’s on the slender side so not concerned