How does everyone feed their cat(s)?

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no dry EVER anymore, i feed evo 95% chicken and turkey the 13 oz cans to two cats, once in the morning when i get up, i leave 2 bowls of it out during the day, if they havent finished that when i get home from work i clean that out and they get a fresh bowl , then normally they get fed before i go to bed.

depending on their hunger one large can lasts about 1 1/2 days, my non diabetic tends to eat all at once and is filled up for a while, patches tends to pick like you would think he is a human that hates all food, he eats the tiniest amt but comes back multiple times to finish it up ( i think he is becoming OCD)

we have tried different kinds but these bigger cans work much better money wise
 
christina52388 said:
Out of curiosity...how does everyone feed their cat(s)? Wet, dry, both, how many times a day, how much, what brands?
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My civies (non-diabetics) are fed mainly Nature's Variety frozen raw with the occasional can or pouch (either Nature's Variety Instinct or Weruva). One civie gets fed one raw nugget 4 times a day. My other civie gets fed one raw nuggget twice a day plus whatever the other civie doesn't finish off and a little canned or puched food before bed.

My diabetic was fed canned food 4 times a day. His mid-day meal was in a timed feeder. I fed several different brands: Nature's Variety Instinct, Innova EVO, ProPlan, Weruva, SOrganics (no longer available), GO! Natural. My cat liked to have variety :smile: He got about a quarter of a 5oz can for each meal.
 
Both of my cats eat all wet. Charlie (15+ #) eats 9-lives pates, 1/2 of a can 5x a day. He scarfs each meal down as soon as he is fed. My civie Darla hates low-carb wet. Since she is NOT diabetic, I'm just content with her eating wet at all (she was a kibble addict), so I don't push the low carb. She is tiny (7#) and eats 2-3 cans of fancy feast a day. She grazes on it.
 
Bob gets 2 cans of FF classics per day.
Mullet gets one can of Friskees pates per day.
Mealtime is around 6am and 5pm.
Then I split one can of Friskees each day into 4 servings, and each of them gets a snack between meals, and then again late at night. No dry for either of them.
So each of them is getting about 8oz of canned food daily. Each of them eats everything in the dish in one sitting, so there's no free-feeding going on at all. I'm pretty sure Mullet (innie/outie) supplements his diet with a fresh catch once in a while. He spends most of his day stalking the woods around the house.

Carl
 
all wet at my house with occasional raw thrown in there. do occasionally pick up some dry if there's strays hanging around and will admit i have a bag of it in my emergency kit sitting on the top closet shelf in the entryway which i rotate every year with fresh stuff

i get up in the morning, flip the switch on the coffee pot and grab the cat food, dole out food, clean litterboxes, do meds & get everything else ready for the day and right before walking out the door i put 2 frozen cubes of wet food in each bowl for the cats' lunches. work a painfully long day, go home, take off my work clothes and grab some more cat food again, dole that out, clean boxes, do meds then shower, clean up, do a few chores, maybe watch a little tv, relax with the kitties, or get on the computer until i'm unwound enough for bed. right before bed, grab some more cat food and put a serving in each bowl so they have a late night snack and let me sleep thru the night.

we do mostly friskies with the occasional special kitty, 9 lives, meow mix, whiskas, etc.....tried wellness but what can i say, my kitties aren't high class kitties i guess and didn't seem to like it which is actually good for me since i use nearly a case of food a day. we do do chicken gizzards & hearts, some nature's variety frozen raw, various livers, pinkies, ground turkey, rabbit, & chicken legs as special meals or treats several times a month usually
 
Christina,

You will be hard pressed to find a kitty eating dry kibble around here.
And the way cats eat is often their call. Some are grazers...so you moisten their food with water and leave it out for them. Others are hoovers...so you pick your meal times to coincide with your shots.
I hate to see a hungry cat so I like to say...let 'em eat when they ask. However I myself had to turn away from Tom in despair when his can of ff for breffis just was'nt enuf and he wanted more!
Truth is he usually won that contest...I'd crack open another can and he seemed content with a bite or two more.
He was a hoover.

So...what is Chocolate...a hoover or a grazer?

Lori
 
Cindy did'nt you show a video of offering your cats 'pinkies' (raw frozen mice..defroseted) and they sniffed and batted at if ...but no matter how many times you told them it was food they simply could not understand that cats EAT MICE! :lol:
 
Cindy did'nt you show a video of offering your cats 'pinkies' (raw frozen mice..defroseted)
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Here we call those "mousicles" :smile:

Carl
 
When Yittle (my diabetic) was still alive he got fed either 1/2 can Fancy Feast or 1/4 can Friskies 6-12 times a day. 12 times was when he was unregulated and starving to death (lost a third of his body weight), and 6-8 times when he was in diet-controlled remission with no insulin needed.

My current 8 cats who are all civvies get fed 1/4 can Friskies twice a day plus we give them all Iams Multi-Cat with Chicken kibble which is lower-calorie and has only about 25% of its calories from carbs (which is less then most brands but not low carb by diabetic standards). I have a few that simply won't eat the moist food, or will eat barely any and I've got a few that won't eat the dry food unless dying of starvation. So some cats end up eating the moist food the other cats won't eat and vs versa with the kibble. If our financial situation improves I'd like to add back in more Fancy Feast but with hubby having been out of work for almost 3 years before this summer (finally he found a job) that was an expensive treat/luxury. Right now they get Fancy Feast maybe once every 2 weeks or so, usually as a consolation prize if somebody has to go to the vet, or if its somebody's birthday or a holiday or whatever.
 
All 12 here eat Special Kitty canned food, and are fed 4 times a day, basically 6am is breakfast, noon is lunch, 6 pm is dinner and then so my siamese will let me sleep until 5:30 the next morning, :roll: they all get a before bed snack at right around 10pm or whenever we get ready togo to bed for the night. Occassionally I will throw in a little either raw or boiled chicken, boiled salad shrimp, or water-packed human tuna or sardines.

I've also tried the better catfoods, but like Cindy, mine are all not high class kitties and just sniff and walk off from the 'good' stuff.. :lol: Which is fine by me and my wallet, since I live in the middle of nowhere, and the only way to get them the good stuff is to order it online and pay shipping.

Mel, Maxwell, Musette & The Fur Gang
 
Cedric gets 4 meals of canned food a day. I have an auto feeder (Cat Mate C20 from petmountain.com) that gives him his "lunch" between 10 & 11am and his "snack" between 3 & 4pm. He gets fed at 6am and 8pm also. Usually he gets 1/4 of a 5.5oz can of Evo cat & kitten, Wellness (grain free varities only), BFF, Wervua (but I don't think he likes that brand too much). I do have some Fancy Feast classics that I give him a 1/2 a can of on occasion. the stray cat I have been feeding gets 1/2 can of Friskies pate twice a day (or whenever he comes around, but mostly he's there in am and pm).
 
i'd have to look around for such video but i think i did video them playing with their pinkies. but they did eat them. they just had to play with them for awhile. the first ones i gave Mousie and Mommie Kitty they actually stalked and hunted and then ate them. fun to watch for sure. not sure if they were following their natural instinct to hunt & kill their food or if they were indeed just playing but once the pinkies started to thaw out, down the hatch they went :-)
 
Thanks for all the feedback :smile: Lori I would say Chocolate is a little bit of a hoover and a grazer :roll: I bought her Merrick Cowboy Cookout and Surf N Turf...she'll eat it but she doesn't really care for it. I'm going to pick up some Wellness and Instinct tomorrow hopefully she'll like those because I forget who but someone mentioned something about phosphorous being bad for older cats so I want to steer clear of that and I think the Fancy Feast has a lot for an old lady. There's so many things to look out for I think my heads been spinning since I joined this forum :dizcat
 
My girls get a treat at 5 am.... civvie lil sis gets cooked chicken livers (sugar bean no likey), bean gets a couple of spoons of whiskas perfectly fish, and slappy dont like anything other than her food! So now that she is excepting wet (yah slappy) she gets her wet a/d... then mommy makes f.feast w/ tuna water or boiled chicken water or whatever bean will take to get her to eat lately...fora flora...sometimes mommy mixes in a bit of friskies..... we munch til mommy leaves...aprox. 6 am and I refill their bowels for the day (except slappy). Bean cannot have slappy's food, so until I can get her switched to beans food, slappy must eat all she is going to til I get home.
Once home, 4ish, we start all over and we refill until mommy goes to bed at 9 pm. Is that considered grazing??????
Oh, and we get tuna flake treats when mommy gets up while slappy is eating SLOWLLLY, and tuna flake treats when mommy gets home from work.
Maybe I need to make a better schedule?? I dont know, I feed when empty.
 
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