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    where and when does your cat eat?

    Scampers eats in the kitchen, Roxy eats in my bedroom, and the other 5 eat in the living room. They each eat a measured amount (depending on the cat) in the morning and in the evening. They each have their own bowl and when I set them on the floor they each go to the right one.
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    They all eat twice a day - breakfast and late dinner. Two on reducing diets eat on the floor at opposite ends of the kitchen and Eliot eats on the counter. Food is taken up after they are done (about 15 minutes) Eliot eats on the copunter because the plush kitties like his regular food better but seldom make the effort to jump on the counter when they are hungry.

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    Well, mine eat before I get MY COFFEE in the mornings, the time depends on what time THEY WAKE ME UP!.... On my off time I can sleep as late as 9am ....IF they let me!!... 3 cats= 3/4 cup Science diet, twice a day.. usually...well, most of the time it's twice a day...then, they want more about lunchtime but I don't give them THAT much and they don't get that all the time at lunchtime.. Ah, then there is treat time, usually once in the evening 2, 3, maybe 4 each...NO more than 4, I PROMISE!! UNLESS one is taking medicine.... or I am trying to get soft paws on Giz.... or clip Amy's claws...Then 3/4 cup (for all) at suppertime or bedtime if I can con them into waiting...

    Assigned bowls? Are you kidding? Well, Chester had HIS bowl before Amy came. Then he ate out of his and then he would go sample her kitten chow.. Then came Giz and she wanted it all, adult and kitten, she taught Amy how to get on the counter to Chesters bowl so now it's whoever gets to what bowl first...

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    6:30 am and 6:30 pm. A measured amount of food each.

    Fern-on top of the kitchen cabinets
    Calvin and Willow in the living room
    Rutherford in the middle room
    the other 11 eat in the cat room in their own cage.
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    Originally posted by jenluckenbach
    6:30 am and 6:30 pm. A measured amount of food each.

    Fern-on top of the kitchen cabinets
    Calvin and Willow in the living room
    Rutherford in the middle room
    the other 11 eat in the cat room in their own cage.
    hOW LONG DOES IT TAKE YOU TO GET THEM ALL IN BOXES ? opps cap lock

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    We feed our two furkids twice a day, but the gutses eat whenever they feel like it and kick up a fuss if there's not enough food!

    Mum to two little humans, a very vocal 14 year old Ragdoll, and a super energetic and snuggly rescue kitten.

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    I fill their bowls twice a day, but they are basically free fed because I leave the food out for them to eat at their leisure. Whenever I say "Kikikikiki", they all come running like a herd of elephants from wherever they are (I am going to try to get a video of that soon). Shiloh eats on the bathroom counter - she's the princess and would rather not eat than share her food with the others. Missy has started making me put some food on the middle level of the cat tree in my room Maya eats on my bedroom floor from her own bowl, and the 5 boys share a big bowl near where Maya eats. I just realized that its the GIRLS who are the finicky ones at feeding time. Such princesses.
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    Kitchen and Computer room. 3 Cats
    I measure out 1 cup between two bowls in the morning They get another 1 cup between two bowls at or around our dinner time. I may put a few spoonfuls in before I go to bed at night.

    Everyone takes their turn at a bowl. Eleanor has turned out to be the chow hound, she took that title away from Skinny. LOL
    Here lately, Skinny has started to sleep with us at night along with Thumper, who has slept with us for a long time. So they are both ready to eat in the mornings.

    Lucky, the Nutro Weight Maintance fills them up fast with just a few bites. My gang has never been ones that eat everything at one sitting.
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    Hubby and/or son feed them as soon as they are awke in the mornings. Allen won't get out of the bedroom door before he's yammering for his food. So whomever's up first will be pushed down the stairs to the kitchen by a starving kitty. If its my son, the boys will be fed overly-well - he just dumps a ton of food in the bowl. Hubby actually follows the "half cup for each cat" directions.

    Allen eats on the little kitchen table (too small for us humans to eat at) and he STANDS on the chair, with his paws on the table and eats. Pouncer eats out of his very own special Mikasa Chirstmas candy dish. Only the finest for my little boy.

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    Tama, Cookie, and Pumpkin all have assigned bowls in the kitchen that they run right to. Everyone gets fed in the evening between 7 and 8. Neko gets fed his measured amount of Waltham Control pHormula and the others get their measured amount of Science diet Light. Oh yeah, and Neko gets fed in the cat room.
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    The Found Cats ahve 6 Feeding Stations,each with a Diffrent Prmium Dry cat Food, depending,on who has the best deals at Petcetera! So far it has beeb Nutro Complete Cat Care,and I am pleased,as the Cats love it! The Starys get it as well,as they need agreat Fooid ,to help them survive,untill they can be rehomed!
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    I don't live with Chris (my ex, still friends, though!) and Lock (the Bengal) anymore, but, I know when I was there, we fed Lock two to three times a day. If he was eating beef or sardines, we'd put it in his bowl and let him eat off the kitchen counter or in the room we used to gate off (because of Finn). When we gave him a chicken leg, we'd just let him eat on the counter. It's easier to clean! And, no real specific times, just when we'd wake up, once during the day, and, before bed.


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    These three eat in the kitchen where they know their own bowl - course Ketchum will just eat anyone's food - but Dan and Bagel only eat from their bowls.

    I feed them in the morning - then perhaps a little more mid afternoon and last thing at night. I'm seriously beginning to think though that Ketchum MUST go on a diet - he weighs a ton!! When he sits on my arm when I'm on my laptop - my arm goes 'dead' in about 10 minutes -

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    They are feed both meals in the kitchen.

    In the mornings they get dry food. This is at 5:45, right after I get up for work. They get me up at this time on my days off too.

    In the evenings, they have wet food.

    Each time Beau is on my left and Felicia is on my right. Although they sometimes switch to the others food. I'm glad they get the same food.
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    Cubby is free fed. I fill up his bowls when ever he runs out. He eats in the bedroom the most, if the bedroom door is closed he eats in the hallway, or if I am in the kitchen he will eat in the kitchen. The only one that I have to dump the food after so long is the one in the kitchen. He refuses to use that one unless I am in there watching him to make sure his bowls aren't going to attack him.

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