Frequency in Feeding

Greetings All!

I am new to the forum, seeking out information for a question I have. I have 2 male cats, whom are 2 years old respectively. I want to know if anyone has suggestions for feeding frequencies, because I have a few issues.

My one cat, I have noticed, is starting to vomit quite a bit after eating. After inspecting his vomit, it seems that most of it is freshly eaten dry food (which is what I feed them) that has not even been digested. I'm not sure how much cats tend to chew and swallow their food, but it seems I can sometimes clearly make out the shapes of the food pieces.

This leads me to believe he may be chugging along and binge eating, perhaps? He is the smaller one of the two, and his larger brother seems to be dominate and watchful of the foodbowl. I don't know if he tries to gobble all he can just to be safe, and then vomit it all? This was never an issue before, and we hardly came across cat vomit.

Which leads into the next question....how often to feed? I am mostly busy as a full time student, and also part time work as well. As of recently, I've been giving them about a quarter-bowl full of food in the morning, and again in the evening. I suppose this would be equivalent to maybe 2 cups of food? Is this wrong? Feeding them too little? Too much? help!

-Jim

With cats who eat to fast, I have found that limiting the availablility of food can sometimes make the problem worse.If there is food out all the time, they will hopefully just nibble when needed. If it is a case of him trying to get the food before his brother, you can try getting smaller bowls and putting them in seperate places. One thing you can try is elevating the food bowls so that he does not have to bend to eat. Generally cats dont chew their food very well, even when they eat slow which is why it seems to come back up the same as it went down, just a little soggier My last thought is that sometimes if a cat becomes sensitive to a food, they will vomit as well. If the above options don't help, you may want to change the food, just do it gradually by adding it slowly to the food they are eating now.

Originally Posted by Sandie

With cats who eat to fast, I have found that limiting the availablility of food can sometimes make the problem worse.If there is food out all the time, they will hopefully just nibble when needed. If it is a case of him trying to get the food before his brother, you can try getting smaller bowls and putting them in seperate places. One thing you can try is elevating the food bowls so that he does not have to bend to eat. Generally cats dont chew their food very well, even when they eat slow which is why it seems to come back up the same as it went down, just a little soggier

My last thought is that sometimes if a cat becomes sensitive to a food, they will vomit as well. If the above options don't help, you may want to change the food, just do it gradually by adding it slowly to the food they are eating now.

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Thanks much!

I think I'll start off with leaving the bowl relatively full, and see what happens. I thought that maybe a higher level of food eaten may lead to a higher level of poop to be scooped though!

Does the guy who vomited practically inhale his food? That's probably the reason. You can slow down his eating by putting something in his food that he has to nudge out of the way....a golf ball, ping-pong ball, clean smooth rock.

I feed my cats twice a day. They are all adult cats. They get about 1/3 wet food and 2/3 dry food by volume.