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I adopted a 12 year old domestic short hair mix yesterday. I was told to feed him wet science diet brand food. According to their instructions I should feed him 2.5-3 cans a day. I fed him 1 yesterday and he didn't touch it, but when I woke up in the morning it was gone. I went to sleep at about 11:30 and gave him that food at about 7 when we got home from the shelter. The next morning I gave him another can at about 7am. He was clearly begging for it too. At about 10:30-11am which is j4 hours or so later he was begging for even more food. He was even looking his empty bowl. He is a large cat, 14 pounds according to the shelter so I don't want to overfeed him. At about 1:30pm I gave him half a can of food aiming to give him 2.5 cans for the day. However, just 5 minutes after he finished that he begged for more!. I gave him a couple of handfuls of dry food. He ate half and 20 minutes later ate some more. When he stepped away from the bowl again I took the dry food away because it seemed like he was eating too much. He is still begging for more food In fact he nearly opened the plastic box with the dry food in it. I plan on feeding him one more can of wet food at about 6:30pm because that's when I'm usually home from work. So how much should I feed this big guy? Did I feed him too much? I'm trying to get him to shed a couple of pounds. Or could his weight be normal?
I adopted a 12 year old domestic short hair mix yesterday. I was told to feed him wet science diet brand food. According to their instructions I should feed him 2.5-3 cans a day. I fed him 1 yesterday and he didn't touch it, but when I woke up in the morning it was gone. I went to sleep at about 11:30 and gave him that food at about 7 when we got home from the shelter. The next morning I gave him another can at about 7am. He was clearly begging for it too. At about 10:30-11am which is j4 hours or so later he was begging for even more food. He was even looking his empty bowl. He is a large cat, 14 pounds according to the shelter so I don't want to overfeed him. At about 1:30pm I gave him half a can of food aiming to give him 2.5 cans for the day. However, just 5 minutes after he finished that he begged for more!. I gave him a couple of handfuls of dry food. He ate half and 20 minutes later ate some more. When he stepped away from the bowl again I took the dry food away because it seemed like he was eating too much. He is still begging for more food In fact he nearly opened the plastic box with the dry food in it. I plan on feeding him one more can of wet food at about 6:30pm because that's when I'm usually home from work. So how much should I feed this big guy? Did I feed him too much? I'm trying to get him to shed a couple of pounds. Or could his weight be normal?
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