how much wet food do you feed your cat?

..and do they have dry food left out as well?
Mik is 15 pounds. Creatures of habit, somehow their ocd daddy got them on a schedule of 1/2 small can, on the 10's and 4's (4x a day) . Now that Minnie is gone (she was the one to wake ME during the night for a feeding) we would like to break Mikki of the habit. They only got Fancy Feast Pate' and no dry.

I used to meal feed a mix of kibble and canned twice each day, but when my roommate went away I had no choice but to free-feed my cats kibble. I discovered that when my little guy had the ability to nibble all day, his gas was a lot less and he had better control over his bowels, so we've stuck to that. So each morning, each cat gets half of a 5.5oz can of food (I feed a variety of brands). Once the dishes are washed, two bowls of w/d kibbles go down on the floor, and one bowl of something else goes up on the counter so my little guy can't get at it. It seems to be working well. Initially, I wasn't putting the dish on the counter and I found that one of my older cats was losing weight on the w/d, so I began putting the extra dish of higher calorie food out, and she gained the weight back. Cats are always trial and error.

I have 2 cats . One male 16 lbs , one female 10 lbs .  They each eat 6 oz of wet per day plus 1/8 cup Wysong Epigen 90 .

They each get a 3 oz  can of FF Kitten Turkey Feast pate ( the only wet food they will eat )  for breakfast & lunch . For dinner I give them each 1/8 cup of Epigen 90 .. 

Mine eat about 70% wet and 30% raw. Each of them gets about 4 oz of wet/day and 2 oz of raw (more or less, I use grams to calculate, so that's about 120 grams of wet and 60 grams of raw). I have a lean cat and two cats on the chubby side (not fat yet), so I'm going to decrease the quantities for these two.

My 5 month old gets about 5.5 oz - 6 oz of wet food 4 times a day.    Sometimes I'm only able to do it 3x's a day.

This was helpful to me

http://catcentric.org/care-and-health/how-often-should-you-feed-your-cat/

My 11 lb male is in the process of going from all dry to (hopefully) an all canned diet. Right now it's about half and half, 3 oz of wet food divided into 3-4 meals during the day & 1/4 cup dry overnight.

My little 4.5 lb girl who has CRF currently eats about 6-8 oz a day of wet food - Weruva/Soulistic is all she will eat these days, so she gets a lot for her size because it's low calorie.

ahhh so you do the 4x a day as well.. I didnt know if I could or should try to eliminate the multi feedings and go for a morning and night feeding to schedule her differently. Fortunately we havent had a problem getting sitters come over multi times pet day if we go away.

Mine get no kibble. They split 1/2 5.5 ounce grain free can at 6 am and at 4 pm. Nothing is left down. They boy eats it all at once and the girl nibbles over an hour or two. I keep her food away from his. No one is fat and no one vomits.

thanks... wow, and they don't bother you in the night... seems like a loooong time from 4pm to 6am... would love that schedule for mine.

MnM said:

thanks... wow, and they don't bother you in the night... seems like a loooong time from 4pm to 6am... would love that schedule for mine.

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The girl wakes me at 6 but that's ok I work. On Saturday night they sleep in garage. I have two little old dogs that wake me by seven, that's sleeping late for me.

ahhh

My girl gets one 3oz. can of wet in the morning and 1/4th a cup of dry in the late afternoon or early evening.

how much does she weigh?

MnM said:

how much does she weigh?

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I assume you are asking me? Enya is about fourteen pounds. I would feed her all wet food but among other reasons, she never really eats her wet in the evening, so I just looking for as low carb and grain free dry foods as I can find. I am currently using Canidae Pure Elements, but I recently found California Natural Grain Free, which I will be switching her too when I begin to run out of my current bag of Canidae. The California Natural Grain free lacks potatoes but it is at the same time limited in its ingredients.

ok, thank you so much.