Mary, You can purchase Hill's Science Diet, or Iam's cat food for adults for those who need to gain weight or any mass-commercialized (Frisky's or Purina) cat food will do, But for those who are already too fat, need a special low weight-gain diet. Now that the weather is beginning to warm up, they will probably not eat as much as when it is colder.
Personally I have to feed Tiger and Amy separately, because of Tiger's sensitive stomach and Amy will not eat enough if she has to eat with the others. In fact, I've seen her avoid eating altogether instead of eating with a bunch of furkids. Amy and Tiger will eat together however. Tiger will not argue with the others when eating, instead, she will let the other eat ahead of her. (I compare this behavior when she was a kitten, when I first brought her home).All of the others free feed on Frisky's dry.
I am beginning to believe that Mopsy has a favorite food also, but I havn't figured it out what it is yet. The only time she eats with the others is when I mix a little canned food in with their free-feed Friskys.
As far as feeding them separately, it is only a matter of feeding the "special needs" furkids somewhere, so that the other's won't eat their meals. It can be inside of a pet carrier, or on top of something that is tall enough so that the others cannot gain access, or in a separate room with a door on it. If any of your furkids are underweight or overweight, then you will probably have to feed them separately. Since I have both kinds in my menagerie, I am still working on specific diets for them.
.......wayne
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