Kitten Feeding Schedule?

[yingying]

My Meatball just had her 1st birthday and Metoo is 10 months old now. Neither of them can eat more than 1/3 can (5.5oz) per meal. Each day their get 3 meals (with the late night one a bit lighter), so they get a little less than one can per day. As kittens, I remember they ate about the same amount. I really don't think your kitty would be able to eat 1.5-2 cans a day. Well, it depends on individual cats, but mine never ever eat that much. They are well developed, not thin. Actually I'm considering cutting off some food for Meatball, as she looks a bit chubby

[shan841]

Well, switching foods definately helped. I have found that Banjo LOVES avoderm, and now I am confident that he is eating enough. I am feeding him as much as he will eat in one sitting 3 or 4 times a day, depending on my schedule. He is not a big fan of the pate-style food(wellness, blue buffalo) but the avoderm is chunks of meat in liquid and I think that is one of the reasons he loves it so much. He will even eat the wellness if I mix it with the avoderm. And, his stool seems much healthier. It is much smaller and much less stinky since I switched him from that yucky science diet dry that he came with.

[Alpaca]

Originally Posted by yingying

It's nonsense that 6 month old kitten should be fed every 4 hours. That's 6 meals a day! 4 meals a day would be perfect, but 3 will do. I feed mine 7:30 in the morning before going to work, 5:30pm after I come back, and a late night snack around 11:30pm before I go to bed. I only give wet/raw, no dry and no free feeding. They have to finish the dish right away and I will take away leftover (if there are any). Three of us are all happy with this arrangement

I got almost the exact same schedule as you do! Cept I feed breakfast around 6:45am and dinner around 5p then late night snack at 11:30p

[yingying]

Originally Posted by Alpaca

I got almost the exact same schedule as you do! Cept I feed breakfast around 6:45am and dinner around 5p then late night snack at 11:30p

I guess that's a typical working guy/gal's schedule I need more sleep though... When I was a student I used to sleep till noon every day. After working for 3 years I'm still not used to getting up at 7am...

@OP: Glad your Banjo enjoy his food and you can see improvement!