How many pounds of food do 10 cats eat in a month?

[Fawkes]

How many pounds of (high quality) food do 10 cats eat per month? I'm thinking 25 lbs maybe?

Odd question, I know :lol:

[Velvet]

I would have thought a lot more judging how much our 2 eat per day;) ! Haven't any idea though!! Must try & work it out, purely for interest sake :)

[paulinef2]

I think if it was kilos you might be nearer the mark :)

[Velvet]

I think if it was kilos you might be nearer the mark :)

Yes think you are right, did it roughly based on the wet food ours get & not counting the dry food they eat & for two of them it was over tbe 25lb mark!

[angieh]

Interesting question! Just to throw another imponderable into the equation ...... what approx weight are the 10 cats - small, medium or large as the quantity of food daily will differ!

(Hope this is just for fun!!!)

[Fawkes]

Wow, really? So 55 lbs of food per month?

(Hope this is just for fun!!!)


Lol, no. My family and I have 10 cats but my parents buy the food and they don't know how many pounds it would equal to. I'm thinking of buying the food from now on but don't know how much would last 2-3 months (I'd like to buy in bulk). But I can't imagine that they're eating 55 lbs a month. I don't know, maybe I'm wrong...some are overweight so they're definitely not being underfed! I've just never paid any attention to how many bags we're buying, how many lbs they weigh etc..

Regarding weight, it doesn't have to be exact or anything, I just want a general idea. But my heaviest is Phantom (13 lbs) who should lose a pound, maybe two. And smallest is Ash, Sunny, and Hermione who all weigh around 5 pounds. So theres big weight differences.

[Velvet]

Depends what you are feeding, you mention bags, is that good quality dry food? It would probably go a longer way than wet food. You could buy a 15 kilo bag & see how far it goes plus offer them wet food 2-3 times a week. According to My vet they should be on dry food full stop. However they tell you that about dogs too - you would usually go by the condition of the animal, what they like & eat etc. Our daily feed consists of 3/4 wet & 1/4 dry, sometimes half & half for the cats. One is still a kitten albeit an older kitten at 11 months

Have you any photos?

[Fawkes]

Yeah, I believe in giving wet food. Since cats naturally don't drink enough water, and wet has less calories for my overweight cats, and wet is less processed (less preservatives etc). So we do give a bit of wet everyday. I'm hoping to increase wet soon, they love it anyways.

I'm trying to calculate it all, so I know how much its going to cost, and can determine how long it will last so I'll know how much wet to feed etc.

Yes, here is Hermione. she turned up very, very skinny a few weeks ago on my porch, crying for food (she could see me indoors). She's now 5.4 lbs and currently being spayed :) She's 5 months. She's a brown tabby, isn't she?

http://i585.photobucket.com/albums/ss295/LOST4Lyfe/May2011496.jpg

Btw- I'm William on Rabbits United. I know some are members on both forums :)

I'll post pics of a couple more of my cats in a min, I don't have many on my laptop.

[Fawkes]

This is Phantom. My only outdoor cat now, I brought Hermione and Emma in last week after they were tested, dewormed, given shots, etc. Now just have to have Phantom tested and dewormed so I can bring him indoors :D Its going to be such a relief.

http://i585.photobucket.com/albums/ss295/LOST4Lyfe/May2011530.jpg

This is Kovu :)

http://i585.photobucket.com/albums/ss295/LOST4Lyfe/Jan2011129.jpg

http://i585.photobucket.com/albums/ss295/LOST4Lyfe/Jan2011340-1.jpg

[angieh]

Smashing photos Fawkes! I would say Hermione is a tortoiseshell from that front view.

[Fawkes]

Thanks! Thats what I thought! But the vets changed tortoiseshell (that's what my dad wrote on her form) to brown tabby, I think, when we were at the vets last week. Maybe they made a mistake.

[Velvet]

Not that im any expert but i thought tortishell as well :) beautiful cats!

[angieh]

We can't see her back though - she may be a bit tortoiseshell and a bit tabby, or a torbie, like my darling Kizzy

http://i215.photobucket.com/albums/cc44/angieh_bucket/Kizzi%20cat/P1020007.jpg

http://i215.photobucket.com/albums/cc44/angieh_bucket/Kizzi%20cat/P1020144.jpg

[Velvet]

Kizzy is gorgeous!

[dandysmom]

Agree, Hermione is a dark brindled tortoiseshell as far as I can tell from that pic ... pretty giri!

[Fawkes]

Thanks! :)

I'm thinking maybe it would be about 40 lbs a month. I dunno, I'll have to see. In a month I'll let you guys know how much food 10 cats eat, lol :p

[Velvet]

Yes - it would be interesting to know!!! :)

[Fawkes]

Yeah lol.

I wonder how many cats most here have? I can't be the ONLY one with 10 cats :p

[Velvet]

There are some here who rescue - not quite sure how many they have tho at any one time:) we "may" be getting another kitten which will bring us up to 3 but bit up in air at moment.

[Velvet]

We can't see her back though - she may be a bit tortoiseshell and a bit tabby, or a torbie, like my darling Kizzy

http://i215.photobucket.com/albums/cc44/angieh_bucket/Kizzi%20cat/P1020007.jpg

http://i215.photobucket.com/albums/cc44/angieh_bucket/Kizzi%20cat/P1020144.jpg

Angie

Is that a "Tula" purse beside Kizzy?

[angieh]

Angie

Is that a "Tula" purse beside Kizzy?

No - a good Italian imitation - "Fabretti" :D

[Velvet]

Looks good!

[farthing]

We have 10 cats, they get 2 X100gram pouches of hi-life a day each, so that is 200grams each, there are 10 so that is 2 kilos a a day, which would be 60 kilos a months, ( 2 X 30)which according to a coversion chart is 132lbs.:shock:

[dandysmom]

As to the number of cats, at the present I have only one girl ... by her choice, not mine; she's determined to be an only cat!

[Fawkes]

We have 10 cats, they get 2 X100gram pouches of hi-life a day each, so that is 200grams each, there are 10 so that is 2 kilos a a day, which would be 60 kilos a months, ( 2 X 30)which according to a coversion chart is 132lbs.:shock:

:shock: I guess canned/pouched food they do eat more of. Or is hi-life dry food?

[farthing]

Hilife is a high meat wet food- 60% meat. I'm halfpenny on Ru:D

[Liz]

We use 3.5kgs dry food a day and 12 to 14 tins of wet food every day here at the Clan:)