How often do you feed your cat (lighthearted)

Twice a day, morning and evening.

Mine doesn't like dreamies but he got a Christmas present from Fortnums, munchies, a very small pack costing £6.Yes, quite nice he says.

My cat has up to 4 sachets a day and always has a bowl of dry food and fresh water available. There is not an ounce of fat on him, our vet commented that he was the biggest DSH he'd ever seen.

My two have a sachet between them morning and evening and dry food available. This was their regime when we took them in. That said they will always try their luck!

My two are on dry food only. I aim to feed them last thing before bedtime so I'm not woken with an insistent paw in the face at silly o'clock, but otherwise it's when I'm gently (and vocally) reminded that the bowls are empty. Each has a bowl in a preferred location but they do tend to plunder each other's bowl without rancour.

Bedtime also brings the replenishment of water. The two of them share a tumbler on the coffee table. It's better than a bowl because it keeps their whiskers from getting wet and means that I can keep an eye on the level as it's important to have plenty of water with a dry food diet.

^ It’s amazing how long a cat will hold out if they don’t like a certain food.^

So true. My Miss Fusspot is a good example. I remember the Vet Nurse saying to me briskly when I was discussing her food that a fussy cat will give in eventually, and for to just stand firm. Ha !

The nurse did have the good grace to say to me the following year that she had just acquired 2 cats herself and realised that what she had said was totally untrue.

2 pouches at the moment. When I got him he wouldn't eat and still refuses dry food. I sometimes buy a pack of chicken thighs for a treat. I dread to think what he will do if I can't buy the right pouches.

My two will only eat wet food at bedtime. If I put it down at any other time of day they just ignore it. Dry food and water is always on offer, but they seem to be doing well and the vet had no complaints. And mine must be the only cats who won't eat Dreamies! But they adore Sainsbury's chewsticks. They wait to be groomed every evening as they know they get a chewstick afterwards.

Fed cat this morning;walked out of kitchen returned a while later. Large tom cat noshing (not our tom) on her food while she stands and lets him. I could swear that she was giving him come hither looks, despite being spayed. He let himself out by the cat flap. No wonder she eats so much; she is giving dinner parties courtesy of us!

Tweedle24, she is well fed. A bowl of catfood a day plus several mice.

In the Utility room where Milo and Ripley are fed, there is always a bowl of canin cat biscuits - the Vet would prefer it if that was all they ate! But, just before I go to bed at around 10 ish, they have a sachet of fishy food and a sprinkle of Dreamies, which the Vet has told us are fattening! When I come down in the morning, Milo sits by his bowl and waits for Dreamies. They are ten years old and apparently very healthy.

geekesse I thought that it was the well-fed ones that hunt??

Eleventy flaming million times at the moment.
Our little tabby has her Bengal cousin staying for rehab (displaying some very naughty behaviour at home which is the final straw in her very stressed household) We feed them both together and both are displaying that feline amnesia where they look balefully at a just emptied saucer and swear that they haven't been fed for DAAAYS....

Twice a day supplemented by dry food. She has not been enjoying the Tiger brand pouch food at all, but I held out as hate wasting food. It’s amazing how long a cat will hold out if they don’t like a certain food.
I have just switched to canned Whiskas rather than pouches as more economical and realise it’s a false economy to buy cheap cat food. Dreamies must have catnip in it!
She is such a comfort during these isolated times.

Once a day, dry food. But I keep her on short rations so that she continues to perform her rodent-control duties.

My two have a pouch each morning and evening with dried food in between. They are much smaller than previous cats I have had and thought it might be too much but, they seem to thrive on it. They are not like previous cats who would eat whatever they could get their paws on with no bottom to their stomachs. These eat on and off all day and there is often food left in the bowl in the morning.

Dinner, two pouches of cat food, in the evening and a bowl of dried food and one of water take whenever he pleases.

Begging doesn't lead to extra food.

Our cat is 16 and fed on demand now - a lot!! She is very fussy and eats one type no bother for a week or two then turns her nose up so no point bulk buying. She currently loves the cat soup as there is little chewing but can eat two pouches a day - also manages to eat the dry food ½ bowl a day and cat milk a bowl a day. She drinks water but only from licking the door, outside chairs if it's been wet and puddles - definitely not in a bowl. She used to favour fishy food but now is more into chicken, beef etc. She also likes boiled chicken cut up. She has led us a merry dance since DH retired! She can still catch mice but often vomits their innards - yuck! She is in and out like a yoyo and kept in at night - there are quite a few cats around and I'm too old to be wandering round the garden at 3am when I hear caterwauling. Poor soul has had to put up with toddlers chasing her for last few years. 7yo leaves her alone but 3 and 2 yos chase her round the house unless checked by us.

"Debt"? He's never run up a debt in his life! Although I did hear a rumour that he owes Norman next door 2 voles as a result of over bidding in a late night poker game

I meant of course "dent".

Ah,in our house the debt is caused by Oliver Sprout lying on it, I have to plump it up every so often!

Nanna58 that reminds me of a children's book about a cat called Sid, who was being fed at several houses, but ended up being taken to get by each household!

Can't remember the exact story of title, something like "Six dinners Sid"?

My daughter fed her cat twice a day, she was getting fat. On chatting with neighbours so it appears we’re sever other houses- she now wears a ‘ please do not feed me’ collar!!!}

Actually it is dog who is responsible for the big dent in the sofa back. If anyone is daft enough to say the word puss, he jumps up there to see which of the neighbourhood cats is trespassing in the garden. Then he rushes out to sort them out. He has not caught one yet they just stroll off into next door while he rushes round and round looking for them!

(Thank You)

Lyndylou can I guess that the cats other favourite spot in on the back of the sofa, the part just above the dog in your photo?

(Both gorgeous animals btw!)

The cat and the dog both wanting the best seat in the house! If he is in it first, she pretends to want to play with him, then when he gets down she jumps in the chair.

Our cat has dry Royal Canin food put out in the morning. (Recommended by the vet as she has a delicate digestion). She is not greedy and usually does not finish the amount she is supposed to eat. However, she will not let me rest in the morning until I have given her her brush which she knows will be followed by three Dreamies. What do they put in Dreamies that make cats go mad for them?