Ok rogue is about 9 month old now. Give or take a week or too.

He is currently eating a couple handfulls (if that) of dry a day (iams/james wellbeloved) and half a tin of smilla and he is like a barrel! He has love handles! Im thinking well he is still young it doesnt matter but he is HUGE!

Can a cat get over weight under a year old or should i limit what he eats.

Skunk my 7 month old cat seems to eat the same but is still looking patete.

Btw these are only rough guidelines to their ages as we didnt no how old they were when we got them so this is just a guess.

The owners told us they were 4 month old but when we went to the vets to have them done a month ago they said rogue was 8 month +

definately limit what he eats.
make sure that he's eating only his own and not your other cats food too (even just polishing other cats food off will make a difference) if you don't already have set meal times so you can monitor who's eating what. cats are like humans in that each cat will have a different metabolism and hence will need different amounts of food, rogue sounds like he doesn't need as much as you are feeding him.

try feeding less each time so one handful of biscuits, and a do 1/4 of the can with a small amount of biccies mixed in (not a handful, say a walnut sized amout, do that for a week and if still ravenous. it depends on if you are in all day or not. we leave ours a large bowl of biccies at all times, they get biccies in their individual bowls in the morning and meat and biccies at 6 when i get home and some more meat just before i go to bed. they get 1/3 of a sachet each time, sometimes they get a little more depending on if they are still hungry after they've eaten all that.

My cats are roughly y/o kitten sized bubs (who's half siamese), neeps, full grown ginger tom sized (ie massive for a female tabby) and rhubs medium sized cat with extra blubber (smaller than neeps but looks bigger cos he's so ROUND, lazy ****).

they all eat roughly the same amount of food simply due to their exercise and metabolism, if they need more we feed them more (we can tell if we're chronically underfeeding them as dead things appear in the house, in the form of presents not the cats themselves obviously).


you could also try 'light' biscuits, we feed rhubs on those (everyone eats them tho) as he's a chubby cat roll and doesn't do much exercise.

don't let kitten get bigger as it's not good at any age, it could cause serious problems later on down the line and the longer you overfeed the harder it is for them to adjust to the new lower food intake.

if you're still not sure take to the vets and get him weight, they will then be able to tell you how much he should be on. also try reading the back of the food you have, they usually have food guides on them for weight, if that is what you are currently feeding him then ignore that lol as it's too much for him.

hope that helps

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This is not a game of 'who the fek are you'.

Not a single gram of fek shall be given today.

My young adult cat was getting a proper belly on her by having free access to supermarket kibble. I need there to be ad lib kibble available when we're out at work because our other cat is a five month old kitten who is growing like a weed..... so I swapped to Applaws kibble because it's grain free and higher meat content - and as if by magic, Sophie's belly has shrunk back to normal size.

Good point Sadie,

howla what are you feeding them with? carb and sugar content might have something to do with it.

hobbs did an excellent post a while back in this section about cat foods and whats in them and where to get them, if you've not read it already have a peruse as it might help you make a better food choice for your monsters, which in turn should help with some of the weight issues.

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I thought you were raw feeding as it was cheaper for you to do so?

Sorry, if I have missed something in your previous posts....

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I think that is the intention when the current stock of food runs out

Hmm, I'm not too sure really because they say you should let kittens have what they want but if Rogue is overweight then yes, it could cause problems later on.
The actual weight doesn't really mean much but where would you say he comes in this chart? Cat Body Condition Score Chart and is it a recent thing or has he always been on the large side? It could just be a growth spurt.

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lol dom, you do get bigger with growth spurts but i don't think out the ways counts

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I would say he is easily between 6-7 on that chart.

I will cut his food down and split them up when they eat then.

Yes when my tinned food is gone will put them onto both dry and raw diet.

Then when the dry is gone i will increase the raw.

Will have to monitor what he eats from now on.

I allow free dry food during the night and just tinned around 4 times a day (smilla).

he has never really been overweight, he has always been a nice size but this last couple of weeks he has packed it on (Since feeding smilla i think???)

Before he was eating go cat and whiskas

Possibly because Smilla has a higher meat content he needs less of it so maybe cut him down to 3 meals a day of it or reduce the amount a bit at each feeding.

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It's also worth remembering that kittens have growth spurts so one week they look all skinny and lanky and then, two weeks later they look wider and then, before you know it, they are all skinny and lanky looking again.

I have found that kittens growths go out sideways, then lengthways, then sideways again, then lengthways again......

However, Dom85 has a good point regarding the density of the better foods - I have cut back on the amount my dudes get because they are so much thicker. I also add warm water to gloop them up a bit which also helps to make the cats feel a bit fuller and less likely to gorge on it.

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