My cat is obsessed with food!

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Evening all!

I’m posting this because I’m at my wit's end with my 8-month-old kitten. She was spayed two months ago. When we first got her at five months old, she was quite reasonable with her food and was able to pace herself. Over time, she started eating her daily ration faster and faster, and by the end of the day, she had nothing left, so we decided to split it into several smaller meals. At the moment, since being neutered, she’s on 25g of dry food and 50g of wet food (a premium brand, so it's very high quality). However, it’s become completely unmanageable. It's been even worse since she was spayed.

She is totally obsessed with food, to the point where she’ll scavenge anything left out (even non-food items...). She steals a lot too; we can’t leave anything lying around (she’ll be licking the olive oil out of a cold frying pan the second my back is turned for two minutes), she rips open loaves of bread to eat them, etc. It’s even worse when we give her wet food—she’d practically have our fingers off to eat it faster. Otherwise, it’s just non-stop meowing whenever she decides it's time to eat...

We tried giving her more, or even free-feeding her, but she ate two days' worth of dry food in 15 minutes, which just resulted in three days of diarrhoea...

We’re really stuck for what to do now... Does anyone have any tips or tricks?

Cheers!

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    • Yuna La Ficelle
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    I’m sorry to be the one to say this, and I hope it doesn't come across as an attack—I’ll admit I’ve been a bit short-fused lately—but in my opinion, your cat isn't food-obsessed; she’s just hungry. Very hungry.

    If it helps, I’ve just checked the brands I use. The wet food pouches are 100g and I give two a day to each of my cats. As for dry food, I leave that out for them to graze on, but the packet recommends two pouches a day plus 20g of kibble. That makes 200g of wet food and 20g of dry food daily, so you’re way off the mark with just 50g a day...

    I’ve just done the maths: my bag of dry food is 4kg (about 9 lbs), I have six cats and the bag lasts me a week. That works out to roughly 95g per cat per day.

    I can promise you that none of my cats are overweight!

    So, as I see it, your cat is starving. Maybe it’s just my working-class roots talking, but cats are like workers: they prefer a full belly. They like the fancy stuff, sure, but if they had to choose, they’d always rather have a proper daily portion of standard food than top-quality premium stuff but not enough to actually fill them up every day...

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