How much do you feed your cats?

[Logan]

Audrey, I have always done free feeding. Mimi and Butter always ate the same food when she was living and neither of them ever got too fat. But, I do think it depends on the animal. If I tried to free feed my dogs, they would explode! LOL!!

Logan

[Taz_Zoee]

I free fed Taz for the first few years of his life and then stopped when he began to gain so much weight. But even after regulating the amount he ate he still reached 21.5 lbs. Right now he weighs only 15.5 lbs. and I feed him about 3/4 cup a day. I even had him on "light" food for overweight cats and that didn't help him loose weight either, so he is just a BIG cat.

[Sevaede]

The boys get half to three quarters of a cup, each, every day. I've had to stop free feeding and had to do it in turns. They were eating more than their share (dipping into Isis' share) and gaining lots of weight.

Isis is a small cat and just doesn't eat that much. She is given the same amount as the boys but only eats about one quarter of a cup of food.

[carole]

Well according to the vets all my kitties are overweight,Ash is 6.7kg,(he is a large built cat,) Lexie 5.3 Ellie 4.4 and Nikki 4.3 i knew Ash and Lexie were, Lexie could loose a kg thats around 2.2 pounds and Ash as well, maybe more, but my two newbies are also now, but only by a few grams,they were very thin when i rescued them,anyhow they are all on controlled portions now and sometimes i give them a little bit more if they appear hungry, because just like we humans they have hungry days too.

However according to the vet and what it says on their biscuits feeding allocation they are only to get 60grms a day to loose weight, and 75 if they are already just right, that is only like quarter of a cup, however i give Ellie and Ash wet food a small amount in the morning then quarter of a cup of biscuits, lexie has her special diet of 60grms a day, but she does sneak bits and pieces,which she is not allowed,but not too much, and then Ash usually gets a small amount of fresh chicken mince on top of his allowance as he is a larger cat than the girls and he loves his fresh meat,so far they seemed to have maintained their weight, although Lexie has lost some but mainly that was because she was not eating her new biscuits,so i guess i am still overfeeding them, but honestly i dont want to cut down anymore , i think i will keep at it and hope for the best, and see a weight reduction soon.

[Kalei]

We just always have a bowl of cat food on the floor for them, that way they eat whenever they want, and both are cats aren't fat and are as healthy as ever!

[ShylanHal]

Mine is kind of like a controlled free feeding. I fill their bowls once a day, and only enough for that days few meals that they have. They normally end up with leftovers anyway, and since it's dry food for the most part, I just fill it the next morning over top with a slightly smaller portion.
They're both slightly underweight, though not grossly, and it's funny, because they do that to themselves. I give them plenty of wet and dry food, spoil them rotten, and they're both about a pound underweight each. Well, Echo's only a few ounces underweight, but she's also a kitten.
BUt they are healthy as horses and fit as kings, err.. queens, or a warrior or sommat, and while they have less fat, I think that's mostly because they're so friggin active!

I personally think controlled free feeding is one of the better ways to go for slightly lazy people like me. :P I have a horrible sense of time, and so I'd always get their meal times messed up otherwise, in what would prolly be the best way to feed your babies, so I just give them their three meals worth each morning when I wake up and they still get the food that they need and no more, but they get to choose when they eat.

[critter crazy]

My Loki is free fed, all the cats i have ever owned is free fed.