Critique please. Diet.

I tend to overthink things sometimes so I wanted your opinion on this food regimen.Cats: 2 Main Coon Kittens (5 months) and 1 Senior Main Coon (suffers from IBD).Dietry: Purina Select One (Kibble), 1 1/2 cups/day (I hate feeding dry but the breeder stated kittens need food to be available all day long).Canned: 1 can of Nature's Variety Instinct (1/2 can twice a day) + 1/4 can in evening for the Sr. Main Coon (He likes the lamb).Raw: One of the kittens like the Nature's Variety Raw Duck so I would give him ~ 1/4 cup in the afternoon instead of his canned. This morning I gave him 1 medallion size chunk which is about same portion size af the raw bites. He ate most of it and then threw up.Feeding Results: The AM feeding of canned is for the most part left alone. I don't know if the summer heat is causing them to ignore most of it. The PM feeding is gone when I get up in the morning. All of the AM Dry is gone. I will usually re-fill later in the evening (9 pm ish) night.The kittens are ~8 lbs and so is the senior cat.Question: Do I have to continue to free feed the kittens the dry? If so, should I only do it for the first part of the day?What would you change?

If you feed the kittens 4 or 5 times a day, you can cut out the dry, which you say you would prefer. If you are gone all day, you could put out a little dry, but there are better brands than Purina One.

catspaw66 said:

If you feed the kittens 4 or 5 times a day, you can cut out the dry, which you say you would prefer. If you are gone all day, you could put out a little dry, but there are better brands than Purina One.

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Do you think I'm overfeeding in the AM? As for the Dry it's Pro Plan Select (Chicken and Rice) basically. Not sure if it matters.

Does your IBD kitty eat the dry at all? If so, I would try to cut out the free feeding of the dry completely if you can. I think dry food is just so hard on an IBD system. As catspaw66 said, if you can feed at least 4 times a day, then they're old enough to handle it I think.

Yes. That's about all he'll eat

Try mixing a little bit of the wet into a little dry and give him that. If he doesn't eat it within 30 minutes, take it up and give him what he will eat. Or you could put a little water in the dry and do the same thing. The thing is to outsmart him into eating wet.