Kevin Kat is either asleep or HANGRY.

[Ratface]

As above. His Kevinship has been in residence for 30 days. He's now 6.35k. He's put on at least a kilo since he arrived, quite bony along spine and ribs. These can still be felt, but less so.
I've wormed him and inspected his faeces. Nothing evident.
His routine is sleep, eat, poo, wee hassle me for food (repeatedly walks over my head, using claws if prompt response is required) gets food, repeat . . .
I could shut him in the saloon, but it's not warm and I'd feel guilty.
Do you think this is a response to being thrown out for his anti-toddler behaviour (perfectly reasonable, in my view) when being dragged round by his head and front legs?
He's costing £15+pw in wet food (Felix/Whiskas) and £20 pm dry (James Wellbeloved). The same as me, except for the fact I live on beans, soup, bread and fruit. In fact, I probably cost less . . .

 

[The Xmas Furry]

E cat was like this to start with.
I ended up resorting to opening std tins of cat food - after about 3 weeks of stuffing his face he levelled out and stopped bellowing all the time he 'thought' he should be fed.
I put down a hard food bowl when I went to bed too.

He's been with us 3 yrs now and only shouts lots at tea time (he is fed 3 x a day on wet - and unlimited biscuits between, but this works out at a small bowl daily) and if I'm chopping up meat, or cooking chicken (so if am doing a roast it gets noisy).

He arrived at 5.6kg from rescue and is now a healthy lean fluffy cat at 7.5kg on average. He's quite active now too, enjoys swinging off trees in the garden and batting the dog (Shih Tzu, 7kg and a good inch+ shorter at the shoulder) occasionally - or hurtling up and down the stairs when not snoring loudly!

 

[WandaMare]

That sounds like a huge amount of food, how many pouches is he having a day and how much dry?

For a big cat 3 pouches plus a couple of handfuls of biscuits is usually sufficient ( i have a cattery and feed about 25 cats a day so I'm going by what I normally see ) That would cost about £5-6 Felix per week and about the same for dry.

For the greedy ones I tend to put down dry food they will eat, but don't really like too much, so they only eat it when they are hungry, otherwise they just scoff it and keep asking for more, bad for them and more importantly bad for me!

 

[The Xmas Furry]

Wandamare, 3 pouches plus biscuits (small scoop) is exactly what E cat has daily these day

 

[DirectorFury]

I can’t advise about amounts as my boy cat is on a perpetual diet, but Amazon do boxes of 120 Felix pouches for £34 which might cut the cost slightly!

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B06W57X...abc_2QWKBJBQ60Q0NGJVW1X6?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1

 

[The Xmas Furry]

I can’t advise about amounts as my boy cat is on a perpetual diet, but Amazon do boxes of 120 Felix pouches for £34 which might cut the cost slightly!

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B06W57X...abc_2QWKBJBQ60Q0NGJVW1X6?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1

Std 40 box is currently £10.50 in Asda (or was last week when i last shopped) and prob less at PaH I think
I mix std with the 7+ on a 1 to 2 basis but am trying to get this down to a 2 to 1 to save a couple of pence.

 

[Shady]

Have a look on Zooplus for bulk buying.
One thing i've noticed recently is that Felix are now a complete rip off with their Good as it Looks pouches and i've stopped buying them. They were 100g with quite a good meat content to jelly ratio. Now they are 85g with sod all meat and mostly nasty jelly. The cats have had the shits and one threw up , which is unheard of with him.
I'm not a massive fan of supermarket foods but Felix was the only one that all the cats would eat so I gave it with a pure meat one by Carny and a really good biscuit.
The trouble with some cheaper cat foods is that they don't really fill the cat up for long and they usually just pee and poo more. The JWB should do a better job, so i'd give more of that. It's a nice biscuit actually compared to many and I had mine on it for years. I only stopped as they got too fat !
ps. Not knocking your choice of wet food at all

 

[The Xmas Furry]

Have a look on Zooplus for bulk buying.
One thing i've noticed recently is that Felix are now a complete rip off with their Good as it Looks pouches and i've stopped buying them. They were 100g with quite a good meat content to jelly ratio. Now they are 85g with sod all meat and mostly nasty jelly. The cats have had the shits and one threw up , which is unheard of with him.
I'm not a massive fan of supermarket foods but Felix was the only one that all the cats would eat so I gave it with a pure meat one by Carny and a really good biscuit.
The trouble with some cheaper cat foods is that they don't really fill the cat up for long and they usually just pee and poo more. The JWB should do a better job, so i'd give more of that. It's a nice biscuit actually compared to many and I had mine on it for years. I only stopped as they got too fat !
ps. Not knocking your choice of wet food at all

That's the Felix Shreds, I bought a 40 box in error last month. E Cat loved them but as you say, they are 85g (and a complete ar5e yo get out of the foil).
The std and 7+ and Good as it Looks are all still 100g here x

 

[Shady]

That's the Felix Shreds, I bought a 40 box in error last month. E Cat loved them but as you say, they are 85g (and a complete ar5e yo get out of the foil).
The std and 7+ and Good as it Looks are all still 100g here x

Yeh the shreddy ones were / are 85g and blimmin pricey here ( 5 euros a box ) but then all the boxes of Good as it looks disappeared and then reappeared with a facelift , recipe change and now 85g . Oh and 2 euros more per box of 12. I even tried Zooplus thinking i'd be lucky , but no they were the same. Total rip off.
Just you wait ...could be a europe thing ,so it will be interesting to see what happens over with you.

 

[The Xmas Furry]

Yeh the shreddy ones were / are 85g and blimmin pricey here ( 5 euros a box ) but then all the boxes of Good as it looks disappeared and then reappeared with a facelift , recipe change and now 85g . Oh and 2 euros more per box of 12. I even tried Zooplus thinking i'd be lucky , but no they were the same. Total rip off.
Just you wait ...could be a europe thing ,so it will be interesting to see what happens over with you.

Thanks, I'll keep a beady eye open x

 

[Ratface]

Kevin appreciates your feeding advice and guidance for The Slave.
He's authorised the following update.
Kevin is becoming less desperate for wet food 24/7.
He's averaging-out at 1.5 cans of Felix a day. Ad lib James Wellbeloved Turkey Senior. The latter seems to be the game-changer.
Kevin has taken to nonchalantly strolling on deck and wandering in and out of his penthouse apartment in the wheelhouse.
I've demonstrated that the river is wet, even under flotsam of rushes, tree branches, plastic bags etc.
Understandably, Kevin hates water being flicked in his face. Any body/eye movements indicating that he's tempted to set paw on anything on water/mud is paired with an instant brief flick of cold (tap) water and brisk verbal cue "off".
I've been doing this for a few mornings and Kevin is a quick study. He gets a few catnip treats at the end of the 15mins sessions. I don't leave any exits open
if I'm not closely supervising him.
He continues to be a lovely calm companion. Definitely a SuperKat!

 

[Ratface]

Kevin has decided that taking strolls on deck is less appealing than he initially thought.
I think the seagull cat-death-dives put him off. I don't blame him. Malevolent sea-rats.
Sitting on the companion way (second step down)and staring nastily at the predators through the main hatch seems a sensible compromise. Prior to having another genteel doze.
He's pure delight in a glossy fur coat.