Thread: How much does your coonie eat?

I don't think it can be the amounts he eats that makes him sick.

here is what my breeder told me when I brought Neevie home, for the first year - she said her cats had a bit of a fragile digestion, but following these guidelines I never had any problems...
- don't give her gravy wet food (you know like chicken in gravy or beef in gravy), only jelly - gravy is too rich, paradoxically kitten food in gravy is even more so, and will give her the runs...
- avoid dry food in the first year, that also gives them the runs, because it's also rich.
- Neevie loves chicken (boiled or grilled, don't add salt or anything funky, not off our plate because then there's things like garlic or onions which are poisonnous for cats) - so she has as much of that as we care to cook for her
- anything with meat or fish, as pure as possible, is the best - whatever she'll eat basically
- let them choose their quantities - don't let that bowl go empty if possible - young cats don't become boulimic, they eat as much as they need, they don't overfill, and MCs need a LOT to grow - I got concerned about the 6 pouches per day with Neevie, so started restricting her, that was a bad move on my part, she's only 5 and a half kilos now. My take on quantities is: Let him grow up, you'll have time to worry about quantities in about 5 years when he's all grown and settled.
- they stop eating so much when they're one year old approx, now Neevie gets 2 pouches (gravy included) and dry food at will...
let us know how it goes!

My cat Damur eats very little. And he feels good though!
We give him enough meal every day ( about 7 packages with wet food ), but he don't put on weight.
And he likes to eat cheese camambert and cheese parmigiano )

oh yes, Neevie wasn't putting on weight at first either, until we had her spayed.

Mickey was all fine yesterday. Normal poo and no chucking up! We just split the tins in half and gave him both halves about an hour apart. He also started eating his biscuits again.

Maybe he was just adjusting to his new family/routine or found something he shouldn't have and eaten it? My 22mo boys do tend to leave a trail of destruction and half consumed food behind them.

I have gone through the wet food and identified the ones that are jelly based rather than gravy. We are going to try him on some boiled chicken on the weekend and see what he thinks of that, just have to con the Mrs into giving up a tenderloin or two to the experiment.

hehehe - oh and I forgot to say, Neevie's favorite is the chicken breast - I don't understand that at all but she likes the dry white stuff best, rather than the tender moist legs.... cats, hey...

Well my 4 month old boys are eating me out of house and home!! I have been very good about not feeding them treats from the table actually as I don't want them to get in the habit of expecting food from the table. I feed them raw food in the morning and evening and around 60g each in the morning and evening and then 60g of Animonda Carny at lunch so they are getting 180g a day!!! It says to feed kittens between 5-6% of their body weight and as the boys are around the 3kg mark this is about the right amount. They do also have Applaws biscuits on the side so they nibble at those but don't eat a huge amount of them as the raw fills them up. They are growing so quickly though its amazing!! One question though, when would you start feeding wing tips as I know they have soft bones but I am assuming its not till they are a lot older that they can handle them?