Ever fed them twice???

nebula11

TCS Member
Thread starter
Top Cat
Joined
Mar 16, 2004
Messages
2,905
Purraise
3
Location
Salem Ma. (City of Witches)
So i slept like 45 minutes last night......I had class, then I had to visit my dad in the hospital.....(He had a knee replacement)...anyhoo at about 7:30 I was crashing so i fed the kits........

John who had some more work to do stayed up a bit longer...He only slept like 4 hours as well....He ended up going to bed at about midnight...but not before he fed the kits.......


They must be just happy as anything........


Ever done this before???
 

KitEKats4Eva!

TCS Member
Top Cat
Joined
Jan 11, 2005
Messages
6,394
Purraise
17
Yup! But mostly I do it out of guilt because I feel bad about having dogs, or they look at me mournfully and hungrily, or I just feel like I want to spoil them. They've SO got me wrapped around their little paws.

Sashka could do with some more pounds anyway she is the smallest grown cat I've ever seen!
 

vespacat

TCS Member
Top Cat
Joined
Mar 13, 2005
Messages
2,771
Purraise
2
Location
The Blue Lagoon
I free feed though I really shouldn't, but I have one cat who is quite slender and actually the right size for the breed, and another who is chunky but still at a reasonable healthy weight. It's very difficult to feed them apart, so I free feed as a result.
 

dawnofsierra

TCS Member
Veteran
Joined
Feb 24, 2004
Messages
16,678
Purraise
24
Location
Loving my beautiful baby girl
My girls have scheduled meal times, but will sometimes get an extra meal slipped in here and there on certain days when Serenity is quite convinced she's starving!
Sierra enjoys the extra little treat!
 

lillekat

TCS Member
Top Cat
Joined
Sep 30, 2003
Messages
4,587
Purraise
11
Location
Under the cats, mostly.
we tend to feed Tosca two smaller meals in a day, rather than one larger... she needed to put on a little bit of weight after we got her, so it was much easier to do it that way and let her cope with less food more often than her trying to stuff everything all at once! Because believe me, she'd try!
 

leto86

TCS Member
Top Cat
Joined
Apr 28, 2005
Messages
3,241
Purraise
2
Location
St Thomas, Ontario
I free feed as well.

I have done that to my dog a few tmes though.. I generally feed him his dinner after our last walk of the day.. so around 10-11pm.. but sometimes I forget that I already fed him.. and feed him again.
 

loveysmummy

TCS Member
Top Cat
Joined
Mar 5, 2005
Messages
2,413
Purraise
3
Location
Vancouver, BC, Canada
Yes, but its because I have a bad memory

I will feed them and not one hour later, I am thinking "Did I feed you guys?"
Then I start asking them if I did...But they don't answer.
Then I feed them just in case.
 
  • Thread Starter Thread Starter
  • #8

nebula11

TCS Member
Thread starter
Top Cat
Joined
Mar 16, 2004
Messages
2,905
Purraise
3
Location
Salem Ma. (City of Witches)
Yeah My cats gets fed twice a day....as schedualed as possible...at least.....i am sure if the meals were more schedualedi wouldn't forget....and feed them twice....
 

darkeyedgirl

TCS Member
Top Cat
Joined
Jul 31, 2002
Messages
1,563
Purraise
12
Location
"Southside of Cincinnati"
My cats get fed twice per day, but if I were to offer it 5 times per day, they'd be happy to eat it.

I've got fat ones, skinny ones, small ones, large ones (Cats, that is).

So their appetite is not based on their size! They are just rotten to the core and always have that "I am so starved" look thing going when ANYONE steps NEAR the kitchen.
 

oscarsmommy

TCS Member
Top Cat
Joined
Apr 30, 2005
Messages
2,803
Purraise
8
Location
O-H-I-O!
I haven't but my mom did it all the time!

I used to free-feed Oscar but he's since gotten a little "chunky". But if you told him that, you get the evil eye! He gets scheduled feedings but sometimes he convinces me he's starving as well......
 

dixie_darlin

TCS Member
Top Cat
Joined
Jul 25, 2005
Messages
8,031
Purraise
4
Location
Pinellas Park, Florida
I leave food out all day for Tiger and Lily.. I have a VERY busy household here and it seems easier.. and I don't get woke up at 3 am because I forgot!
 

jcat

Mo(w)gli's can opener
Veteran
Joined
Feb 13, 2003
Messages
73,213
Purraise
9,851
Location
Mo(w)gli Monster's Lair
It has happened two or three times when Jamie has woken me up in the wee hours demanding breakfast, I've gone downstairs on automatic pilot and fed him, and then back to bed. Then I've fed him again at his usual time.
 

turtlecat

TCS Member
Top Cat
Joined
Jun 1, 2004
Messages
2,288
Purraise
1
Location
Morrisville, NC
I admit it, they've had days where they've been fed once, and days that they've been fed 3 times, lol! (we intend on 2 times a day, but at 6 AM we sometimes forget.)
 

pjk5900

TCS Member
Top Cat
Joined
Jun 12, 2004
Messages
1,249
Purraise
1
Location
Southwest Indiana
I have the auto feeder where it is available 24/7.
I can't keep track of who eats when and don't want to do it any other way.

They do get 1 small can mixed with their dry twice a day, and fresh water.
 

berylayn

TCS Member
Top Cat
Joined
Dec 5, 2004
Messages
1,736
Purraise
1
Location
Aldie, Virginia
We free feed our dry food, but the girls get canned food every night as well. I have definitely come home from work and class some nights around 10:00 pm dead tired and have forgotten to give them their canned. Usually though Eb wails so loud that I can't forget!
 

lionessrampant

TCS Member
Top Cat
Joined
Jun 14, 2005
Messages
4,161
Purraise
6
Location
Windy City Kitty :)
I've fed them before I take the girls I watch to school when I'm in a drowsy stupor and then again when I get home 90 minutes later a couple times in the past...I once also left for class without feeding them, in which case I hear all about it when I got home a couple hours later! You'd think that being fed 2 hours late was killing both of them and that I was the most terrible kitty-momma ever...
 

fatkitties

TCS Member
Alpha Cat
Joined
Aug 8, 2005
Messages
453
Purraise
1
I usually don't have it very *together* in the morning, so sometimes I stand there thinking "Did I feed the critters thier breakfast or not??" I don't know how I can *not* remember if I fed 3 dogs and 2 cats (the hamsters are fed at night, and the dragon gets fed right before I leave, because he needs to warm up first). But sometimes I wonder. And I usually end up giving them more food, because I don't want them to go hungry because of my morning fog delay! Of course, on those days I usually remember, quite vividly, feeding them the first time around, on my drive to work. I need to start dishing up thier food before bed on nights I have to get up early, so I can just put it down for them and not have to try to remember.
Gizmo is especially bad about scarfing down her food and then acting like she hasn't been fed, too. She does it more on early mornings, I think because she knows I'm likely to have a forgetful moment and feed her fat hiney again! I tell her "Seriously Gizmo, missing one meal would NOT cause you to die of starvation!" LOL!

Amber
 

stampit3d

TCS Member
Top Cat
Joined
Sep 5, 2005
Messages
2,864
Purraise
1
Location
Michigan USA
Free-feeder here too....so nope....I have`nt " done it twice"...and i`ve never forgot to feed them....NO WAY WOULD THEY LET ME FORGET!!!!
Linda
 
Top