Our cat would be a blimp if given the chance. She's a failed free feeder for sure. At last count, she was eating 3-4 CUPS of food a day, every day, for a week with no signs of slowing down. Other than to vomit or 'explode' in the litterbox. Till I gave up on that. You know your cat has an issue when she goes from eating, to getting rid of eating too much in one of two nasty forms, then goes right back to eating.:yikes:
There was a whole summer where she'd get out the front door, run across the street and behind the houses, and come back needing some major rear end cleaning a few hours later. I think someone a street away was leaving cheap cat food out for the strays or something and she'd run and gobble it all down (I've been told by several people to leave a bucket of food out for the ferals/outdoor cats, so they don't get into your garbage) and then of course it'd go right through her and she's a long haired cat...
She now gets scheduled meals. And as far as I know the free food outside is gone, it hasn't happened for a year now.
Hope they don't mind the reduction in meals...:rofl1: