Hi there! Quick intro: My baby is Dash and I am Ash This is my first time posting so please excuse me if there was somewhere else I should have posted this aside from "cat health"...
I adopted Dash from the SPCA over a month ago. He was a stray so they didn't have a lot of information on him but they believed he was around 3 months. When I brought him to the vet they thought he might be younger (his adult teeth haven't grown in & they told me that happens at 16 weeks). Our guess-timate is that he is around 3 months old now.
I have owned cats before; however, they were all adults so this is my first kitten. He seems to be constantly hungry... I was told to "get him on a schedule" and feed him twice a day, at the same time everyday. Right now he eats "Science Diet", the kitten formula but for outdoor cats (he is an indoor kitty). The reason I have him on the outdoor food is because he had severe diarrhea for about a week straight & the indoor food has extra fiber in it so I didn't want to make the diarrhea worse. He is extremely active. He weighs three pounds, so I feed him the amount the bag tells me (1/2 cup) twice a day... but he is constantly giving me his "hungry meow". Every time I go in the bathroom, which is where his food dish is, he wants to be fed more. He begs for my food when I am eating and sometimes it's so bad that I have to eat standing up so that my food is on a surface that he can't reach.
I read a few other forums with similar questions and it seems the general consensus was to feed him whenever he is hungry, because he is so young... but my biggest concern is that if I feed him to much, his diarrhea will come back. I did bring him to the vet, twice but, aside from helping me find a food that stopped the diarrhea, they weren't much help. I'd just like to get some other opinions... I feel bad because I don't want my baby to be hungry all the time! Thanks in advance!
I adopted Dash from the SPCA over a month ago. He was a stray so they didn't have a lot of information on him but they believed he was around 3 months. When I brought him to the vet they thought he might be younger (his adult teeth haven't grown in & they told me that happens at 16 weeks). Our guess-timate is that he is around 3 months old now.
I have owned cats before; however, they were all adults so this is my first kitten. He seems to be constantly hungry... I was told to "get him on a schedule" and feed him twice a day, at the same time everyday. Right now he eats "Science Diet", the kitten formula but for outdoor cats (he is an indoor kitty). The reason I have him on the outdoor food is because he had severe diarrhea for about a week straight & the indoor food has extra fiber in it so I didn't want to make the diarrhea worse. He is extremely active. He weighs three pounds, so I feed him the amount the bag tells me (1/2 cup) twice a day... but he is constantly giving me his "hungry meow". Every time I go in the bathroom, which is where his food dish is, he wants to be fed more. He begs for my food when I am eating and sometimes it's so bad that I have to eat standing up so that my food is on a surface that he can't reach.
I read a few other forums with similar questions and it seems the general consensus was to feed him whenever he is hungry, because he is so young... but my biggest concern is that if I feed him to much, his diarrhea will come back. I did bring him to the vet, twice but, aside from helping me find a food that stopped the diarrhea, they weren't much help. I'd just like to get some other opinions... I feel bad because I don't want my baby to be hungry all the time! Thanks in advance!