Cat Owners - How much do you feed your cat?

AngryAmish

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Mon Mar-14-05 06:52 PM
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Cat Owners - How much do you feed your cat?

I found an old box for the cat food "Tabby Treat". I think it is 20-30 years old.

On the box, it says that the individual serving is 6.5 ounces.

I was wondering if portion sizes for pets have increased like human portion sizes.

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davidinalameda

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Mon Mar-14-05 06:54 PM
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1. I keep their food bowl filled

so they'll always have food

my little one won't eat if I'm home or around her--she's weird like that

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sabbat hunter

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Mon Mar-14-05 07:01 PM
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3. my cat

since departed was the opposite. would generally only eat when someone was in the room with her. in fact she would wake me up in the morning meowing. i would follow her downstairs, she would keep checking to make sure im there. and only eat if i stayed with her. if i left she would run in front of me and meow again.

guess she wanted company while she ate

generally with cats as long as the food is fresh you can leave it out all the time, as cats unlike dogs wont eat till they get sick. they eat till they are full and stop.
although some male cats after getting neutered get heavy so you need to watch that.

david

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mike_c

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Mon Mar-14-05 07:00 PM
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2. I feed ad libidum for the most part....

I feed seven cats, so I keep the kibble bowl full most of the time. I give them 2 or 3 3 oz cans of wet food every morning, mostly as a treat, since none of them get more than a few mouthfuls of it (3 cans if they all want some, 2 cans otherwise).

Only one of the seven is overweight, but with this many cats I'm not sure how else to do it. To complicate matters, they go in and out more-or-less at will, so other than the early morning semi-congregation for canned food, there isn't any defined "feeding time."

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