Gooshy food for Tessie?

We ran out of kitten kibble for Tessie and she's happy eating the
regular stuff so John said we should leave her on it and just let her
eat as much as she liked... only she was eating like a HORSE! I don't
think that diet hairball kibble has enough energy in it for an
energetic growing kitten and she needs an extra food source of her
own. We bought some tins of gooshy kittenfood because Scouty and
Silver don't like it and she wouldn't have to fight them for posession
of the bowl... so guess what happened? As soon as I opened the first
can, all three cats came RUNNING and demanded some. Scouty took a
sniff and buried the bowl, Silver sniffed and decided 'hey, it's food,
I can go for this!' and Tessie sat there for about five minutes hoeing
into it like she hadn't been fed in a month... which leads me to the
question - how MUCH gooshyfood should we be giving her? I want to feed

Victor Martinez...

I'd say give her as much as she'll eat. She's a growing kitten and
probably won't have weight issues being so young.

it to her once a day and let her eat kibble the rest of the time... I
put down 2/3 of a baby-sized tin and she only ate half of it, so I put
the rest away and offered it to her again next day, but then she
didn't even eat half of what was left and I had to throw it out. I
opened the second can (friskies turkey) today and put HALF of it out
for her, and again she ate about half of what was in the bowl and
ignored the rest. Is 1/4 or 1/3 of a small can going to be enough food
for her? I don't think she's used to the idea that the bowl will be

Victor Martinez...

Our cats sometimes devour their gooshy food, sometimes they let it sit
for hours. They get fed on average 4 small cans in the morning and 4 in
the afternoon. Sometimes there's a big can instead of one of the small
ones, and often at night they get an extra pouch if they finish all
their food. They also get kibble for snacking between meals. So, it
comes out to little more than half a small can per meal per cat, on
average. Although Luna probably eats a whole can's worth and Fez barely
nibbles on the gooshy food.

taken away - she seems to be trying to save some for 'later'. How can
we make this work? (I know I'm a 'cat slave' but that doesn't mean I'm
going to be offering her gooshy food every three hours for the rest of
her life!)

Takayuki...

She's so cute. From this post, I can hazard to guess that Tessie's
body shape and metabolism are just a little different from her older
sisfurs? ;)