How much does your coonie eat?

Pipi is still only 14 months old, and currently she's eating four meals a day. She has a couple of tablespoons of Natural Instinct at each sitting, apart from supper when she shares a plate with our moggy boys and they all as much as they can scoff in the time. She also seems to be going through growth spurts again, as currently we're thinking of upping it to five meals a day because she's cried a couple of times in between meal times.
We don't feed any dry food so don't have a "snack bowl" down. If we did my biggest moggy Satyr would just eat the lot in one sitting, regardless of how much was there!

When it's feeding time, we get "the bark!" You'll see what I mean in the pics. And yes, the second one is a meow, not a yawn! :LOL:

Nexivred, Beautiful Pipi! She looks like a baby bird with its mouth open! Ginger has started waking me up with kisses and the gradually biting me until I am fully awake. She thinks 4am is a good time to get her breakfast Uck I on the other hand just want to sleep!

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Originally Posted by donnad

Nexivred, Beautiful Pipi! She looks like a baby bird with its mouth open! Ginger has started waking me up with kisses and the gradually biting me until I am fully awake. She thinks 4am is a good time to get her breakfast Uck I on the other hand just want to sleep!

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Ginger eats 1 can 1/2 each time a day and gets all the dry she wants at night. she is currently 13# and 13 months old.

We feed Ripley 1 pouch of wet food three times a day and has dry food down throughout the day, she's about 16 months.

I gave Neevie only wet food from the start, so... 6 pouches per day!!!! Little monster gobbled them all! Then when she got to 2 years old she started eating less and Now she s on to 2 to 3 half pouches a day (yes I give her the hole pouch but she only eats half then asks for more) and Royal Canin Maine Coon Special dry in the maze if I saw her drink during the day (easy as she drinks from the tap)

My sweetie, Ce-Ce only gets one pouch of wet at night. But she has her choice of dry during the day. It isn't an issue for her because she will only eat a couple of kibbles then moves on. She loves yogurt, Gets to lick the bowl when I am finished with the yogurt. and she loves, loves, loves watermelon. she has been known to knock it off my fork if I don't give her the last bite.:drool1:

hahaha that is funny. Miss Ginger likes to lick the last spoonful of milk from my cereal! and she absolutely loves whipped cream!

I have a decent sized dish for kibble, which is filled once a day and shared between all four cats. Once it's empty, that's it until the next day.
Mandy gets wet food 2-3 times a week plus bits of what we eat, mostly eggs and chicken. She's kind of a chunky girl right now so I've reduced her wet food to about once a week since her "people food" intake was high over the holidays (She ate more Christmas ham than I did...)
I had Merlin on wet food 3x a day plus kitten chow 2x a day mixed with warm water to make it easier to eat. He enjoys regular feedings and is not an all-day kibble addict like my other three pigs! He's down to wet food 2x a day now and is still gaining weight well. He is about 10 years old and recovering from starvation. I'd like to see him reach at least 16-18lbs before I switch over to regular adult kibble, and because of his lack of teeth most of his diet will be wet food.
In general I've found that Coonies seem to have robust appetites. I give a can of tuna to everyone a few times a month, and it makes a huge difference in their coats. No dry skin, coat is super soft and shiny!!!

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Originally Posted by daughter9moons

and she loves, loves, loves watermelon. she has been known to knock it off my fork if I don't give her the last bite.:drool1:

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oh! oh! my last cat loved melon! really really loved it, so when I finished mine I gave her the skin with some left in it and especially some juice!

Attachment 7533Ce-Ce and watermelon

How much should a 13 week kitten be eating? Mickey has been eating ~30-40gms of dry biscuits and a 3oz tin of wet food a day.

Mickey has gone off his dry food the last couple of days and the breeder told us he needs more food and to give him wet 3-4 times a day if he is ignoring his dry biscuits. He had 1 tin of food at midday yesterday and another about 7pm. Poor little guy chucked up everywhere at about 2am and had a very loose stool...that he stood in and trekked around the bathroom :sad2: He has the tins before and not been sick from them :(

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?