Thread: How much are your kittens eating?

I have often wondered if we are feeding Chester enough or too much. He is just over 4 months old and is almost 3kg. He eats in a day:

Breakfast: 1/5 pouch of whiskas
a 'palm' sized portion of raw beef or kangaroo mince

Snacks: MC kitten 36

Dinner: Same as breakfast

Snacks: biscuits.

We don't let him graze or he eats too many biscuits and then he sometimes gets an upset stomach from gorging!

hey just seen this thread lol
i did not know cats were allowed raw meats or tuna! i know they can have tuna in very small ammounts never for a kitten but not alot as it causes a sore tummy?

what raw meats am i allowed to give them?

The males in general get quite a bit bigger than the females, so they will definitely eat more.

The breeder of our 6mos old male kept one of his sisters. She just told me that the girl is around 8lbs, whereas our male is over 10lbs now (but a girl from another litter is even a bit bigger than our male).

When we got our male that is 18mos now, he would eat an entire 3oz. can of wet cat food first thing in the morning (that was at around 18 weeks). I had never seen a cat eat like that--just like most dogs--wolfing down his bowl of food. Unfortunately, since we have dry food out all day, it is really difficult to know how much any one eats During growth spurts, this male has probably eaten as much as 4 3oz cans and a very substantial amount of dry food in a day. Both males are much heartier eaters than our females ever were. The 6mos old comes and eats meat every single time any of the other three are fed. A couple of times, he has eaten to the point that he has actually thrown up when he got too athletic right afterwards (they eat dry, drink water, then the dry food swells). We could not fathom how he could have had that much food inside him!

As long as your kittens continue to grow, are playful, etc., I wouldn't worry too much about the male eating more. Also, some cats seem to prefer dry food while others prefer wet. One of our females eats way less meat than any of the other cats. We do keep track of her "output" periodically, though, so we know she gets plenty of food.

Just to help with my last post...cat food cans in the US generally come in two sizes: 3oz/85g and 5.5oz/156g. Generally we use the smaller cans (many brands come only in the smaller size). One problem with larger cans is that many cats do not like to eat food cold right out of the refrigerator (only one of our four seems to have no issue with that).

Don't worry it's natural some cat(she) sometime eat lesser than other Cats(he),it's not about eating lesser or he/she(cats).if your pet is healthy and active,do participate in physical activities then there is nothing to worry.





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Animal Hosptial Lexington KY and Grooming Lexington KY.

I do have fudge the girls are 5mths now 2 whole cooked chicken (no bones) lasts them 4 days RC dry is down all day dry will last another few weeks, before I need more ,bought 8kg when collected them, fresh fish , ham off the bone fudge can"t have tuna

I was just wondering about this this morning when I was feeding Schrodinger.

Yesterday I weighed how much dry food we put down as I'd noticed that he's started to eat the dry food more (he usually ignored it to be honest) and a bowl full is approx 100g.

His feeding plan is as follows:

In the morning he gets just over a 1/3 of a tin (410g tin) of Bozita and the same again at tea time (just as were getting our food) and we leave the dry out so he can graize. The dry food were using is the Porta 21 Feline Finest Sensible.

Now when we woke up this morning he'd eaten nearly all the dry food aswell, so in total he's eaten (approx.) 4/5th of a tin of Bozita and nearly 100g of dry.

I know Maine Coons eat you out of house and home but is this normal? To be honest i'm quite shocked at how much he's packing away, i weighed him yesterday aswell and he's gained about 100 grams (2.9kg's) in about a week since his vet visit and i'm not sure if its just me but he does seem longer since we got him.

Anyhoo, my question here is, is this normal and to be expected, if not should we remove his dry food bowl during the day to stop him from hoovering everything up or maybe put less dry food down?

That is a huge amount of dry food for him to be having -at his age I wouldn't think he even needs half of that. Look at the side of the packet for the recommended portions that he should be having for his age and weight. For example, my youngesters get something like 35g per day of biscuits along with some bozita and wild minced rabbit.

Don't forget you are giving him bozita too so you need to give him less dry than if he was on a dry only diet.

Dry food is quite addictive for cats so most of the time if it is there they will eat it, regardless of whether they are hungry or not!

I think because its there he's just gourging himself on it.. ok, tonight he's starting on a more regimented diet and we'll see how we get on.

Hello
My name is Cristina and I live in Portugal.

I ‘m the happy owner of a kitten red tabby blotched Maine for 13 weeks and would and I take some doubts with you.

I think my kitten, name "RUCA" eats very little and I do not know if this is normal or not.

He eats dry food (kitten RC 36) and RC Kitten instinctintive.

Right now he weighs 2.400 kg. It’s a normal weight for a 13 weeks kitten ?

He plays a lot with my other cat, so he is not sick.
Also already took him to the vet who says he is in good health but I ´m worry.



Thank you in advance for your help