Free Feeding vs. Specific Feeding times...

I used to free feed our cats until i found this out:

The cat's digestive system, being that of a carnivore, produces a lot of alkaline when it is digesting food. This is because traditionally cats eat raw meat and raw meat is acidic and thus to digest it, you need alkaline stomach acid...

So where am i going with this?

Okay...
If your cat is eating all day, then their digestive system is constantly producing alkaline stomach fluid to digest the food it has eaten. So... your cats system remains for the most part of the day, alkaline. An overly alkaline system is a common cause of the dreaded Urinary Tract Infection.

In the wild a cat would hunt maybe twice a day, or on a bad day where prey was small they might hunt 3 times... But essentially this means that, inbetween hunts your cats system has time to re-adjust the ph levels towards being more acidic which is how it's supposed to be....

Anyway.
I just thought i'd share this information with you as we used to free feed... and now, after a bit of research it sorta makes more
sense to feed them twice a day...

Cheers!

That's interesting. I have to admit that I never thought about it. Jamie gets two meals a day. If I free fed him, he'd probably be way overweight.

Im doing the 2 feeds a day thing. Morning and evening they get 2/3 cup of food, give or take a bit. I give 1/3cup Chicken cat food for the cat lovers soul or whetever and 1/3cup Maxximum Nutrition. Sometimes they dont finish the bowl though and some is left throughout the day. Should I pick that up and take it away then until the next feeding time?

I free freed dry - Loki has it avialable 24/7 and he get's 1/2 a 3oz can of wet in the AM and the other half in the PM. Works great for me.