When I first brought Tiger home as a tiny kitten, she would also gobble down more food, in proportion to her size . It was because the people who had her didn't feed the litter very much. When she saw all the food, and water, she would growl and hiss at the others and keep them at bay with her front paws, until she ate. But after about a week, she began to realize that there was plenty of food to go around and began to eat more civilized like the others.

........wayne