How to stop your cats over eating
Ever come downstairs in the morning to find a pile of cat vomit on the carpet? Do your cats bully each other to get to the food? Do they try to trip you up whenever you’re in the kitchen, constantly getting under your feet?
They have as much food as is recommended, but they are sick because of how much they eat. A good old catch 22.
Often, the reason cats are sick isn’t because they are eating too much, but that they are eating too quickly. If there are more than two cats, they may feel that their food is threatened, so will eat it quickly before anyone else gets chance to.
Or, if they are fed at irregular intervals, they may feel they don’t know when the next batch of food is going to be there, so they scoff it all down as quickly as they can.
One solution (which worked for a good friend’s two cats, and for my four cats) is to leave a full bowl of biscuits down at all times. That way, if they’re hungry, they can eat. Put down meat once (or twice) a day at set times, and they may eat what they want and go back to it later.
You may find yourself throwing away bits of dried meat in the bottom of bowls more often than before, but I can guarantee that’s better than scooping up half-digested biscuits.