Auto feeders and multiple cats

[SugarFreeLucy]

Hi Everyone!

Question about those who have auto feeders in multi cat homes...how does that work?

I have a feeder for Lucy (the diabetic) and have been feeding Ethel (the overweight civvie) at Lucy's shot times. Since Lucy is OTJ officially as of tomorrow, there will be no shot times....I will be trying to keep a similar feeding schedule, but for days that I will be staying out past 7pm, that won't work. I know Ethel eats out of the feeder, but not all of the time! I guess my question is if you have more than one cat, do many of you have more than one feeder?

And on a side note, Ethel needs to slim down a bit, would it be beneficial to have her eat more (smaller) meals during the day rather than 2 larger meals?

Val

 

[Doug N Libby]

Hey, Val -

Congratulations, Lucy!!!

We have one feeder for each cat. And, I don't know if it matters how many meals you feed Ethel, it's more about the calories. We feed 3 times a day - Hershey (diabetic) needed to gain weight and Oreo (not) who needed to lose weight. I just figured up how many calories they each needed and divided them between the number of meals for the day.

Hope this helps -

Libby (and Hershey, too!)