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| 2105.1 | Here's What We Do, (For What Its Worth...) | TAMARI::MCGOVERN | Szechuan Vanilla | Fri Dec 30 1988 15:03 | 12 |
| I'm not sure, but we feed our cats about 1/4 - 1/3 each, twice a
day. We mix about a tablespoon of wet food into about 1/2 cup of
dry food and split it into two dishes. They gobble the wet food
out in a hurry, and munch on the dry for the rest of the day.
Seems to work OK, and we have two reasonable svelte cats.
Remeber though, that Rule 1 in the Cat Manual On Life is to ALWAYS
hang out by the food dish looking starved. This was, they train
owners to feed them on demand.
MM
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| 2105.2 | | MYVAX::LUBY | DTN 287-3204 | Fri Dec 30 1988 15:24 | 10 |
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Paul,
Some do, some don't. I used to leave food out all the
time and T.K. was very slinky, and Bandit was very fat.
You know you can always come up and ask me questions.
Karen
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| 2105.3 | no problem with my five | GEMVAX::GRANT | | Fri Dec 30 1988 16:41 | 9 |
| I give my five a bit of canned food twice a day, and leave dry food
out all they time. Springer is slender, Sly and Midway are solid
but not fat, Paws is average, and Adrienne fluctuates between just
a bit chunky and just a bit thin.
Depends on the kitty.
Marleen + 5
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| 2105.4 | | YOSMTE::CORDESBRO_JO | | Fri Dec 30 1988 17:13 | 4 |
| I own three kitty gluttons who would keep eating until they popped
if I let them.
Jo
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| 2105.5 | | CRUISE::NDC | | Tue Jan 03 1989 07:14 | 13 |
| I have four cats, the oldest of which is 11 and at a recent visit,
the vet told me to stop leaving food out all the time. The reason
is that with four cats I can't tell if one of them is not eating.
So, he told me to give them just what they need at each meal.
I would say that if you have one cat and it is eating a good balance
of food and is staying thin you can keep doing what you're doing.
If the cat starts getting fat or gets really finicky and isn't eating
a balanced diet, then you'll have to start measuring out its food
and not allowing it to "free-feed", or if you have the situation
I have.
And you know, you can always ask your vet!
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| 2105.6 | | WITNES::MACONE | Round Up the Usual Suspects | Tue Jan 03 1989 08:19 | 11 |
| Mom had bought one of those feeders that you can put a whole box
of food in, thus only "feeding" your cat once a week or so. Well,
BeBee got so fat free feeding all the time. It got so that BeBee
would empty the feeder 2 or 3 times a week. Well, the vet put BeBee
on a diet, and mom was pretty miserable for a while when she could
only give BeBee 1/4 C. of food a day, and had to listen to BeBee
howling by the food dish.
Moral of the story - Control your cat's appetite now, when there
isn't a problem, since it sure is easier than taking food away from
a hungry cat.
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