My kitten is always hungry. What should I do?

I think cats absolutely will try to steal food just to be mean. My cat is a big bully with one of my other cats. Every time he goes near the food dish she runs over to start a fight with him and scare him away. I try to make sure she is outside when he comes in to eat. When we got my daughter a kitten the adult cats would try to eat her food also and she would run and hide, so we started giving her a small bowl and putting her in the bathroom with the door closed so she could eat without the adults bothering her. After a while once she got a little older, she started standing up to them and we were able to stop feeding her in the bathroom. Eventually all 4 cats put themselves on a schedule where they were the only one eating at that time. Unless the dish has been empty they all eat at different times now so there are no problems except for my bully cat but I do what I can to help that situation. She is only a bully to my one male cat. They all eat only twice per day, but it is staggered.

First of all, if the kitten hasn't been to the vet, you should take her and make sure she doesn't have worms. A tape worm would make her hungry all the time. She may have picked one up when she lived outside. If you know that worms aren't the problem, I would start feeding the cats at fixed times during the day and watching to make sure that no one is stealing anyone else's food. Put down a certain amount of food for each cat, and then pick it up after ten or fifteen minutes. If they are used to food being out all the time, they may complain at first, but they will get used to the routine eventually.

I have 2 cats and 2 kittens, They eat like pigs, poop like dogs and sound like elephants running thru the house. My cats eat all the time and still act like they are starving all the time. Thats normal.

I agree with the first responder to your discussion, it sounds as if kitty may have contracted one of those pesky worms! Take kitty to a vet soon to determine. It's a simple and affordable fix. If no worms are present, the vet will also help you determine which food to feed kitty.

Worms can make a cat hungry all the time. Take her to the vet. Secondly, leave a bowl of dry kibble out all the time. I have 3 bowls out becuase I have 16 cats, but that food is out 24/7 and they can eat whenever they feel like eating. It saves me a ton of money on canned food. I'd lose my house if all I did was feed them canned food every day. That stuff gets expensive and a bag of dry cat food lasts me about a week or so.

We kept our cats food bowl full all of the time. She ate a lot at first, but over time she self regulated. With an outdoor cat they try to eat everything all at once because they aren't sure when they will get more food so they get over protective of the food that they do get.

I only ever have one cat so I have never had the acceptance problem, I guess kittens do eat a bit as they are still growing but are you sure it doesn't have worms, a lot of kittens do get worms...I hope you solve your problem...

Everything I was thinking has been said already but I'll through my 2 cents in here anyway. The older cats very well could be stealing her food since they are bigger...think about what happens to the runt of the litter. Or it could also be worms. We have 8 cats right now and are dealing with this very problem. We're trying to get them all taken are of but it seems like we can't get them all worm fee at the same time. This was a particularly difficult week as they would go through an entire bag of cat food in a day and be begging and whining for more. So we'll be trying the whole "deworming" process again and hopefully this time it will work for all of them all at once.

It's posible that other cats steal food. My 5 weeks old kitten starts meowing when it want's to eat, but after it finishes, you just CANT force it to eat more, it will be just going away from the dish, and if I'm trying more it starts bitting me (thinks that I want to play0

My kitten is always hungry too. Well I know it's winter now but he really gained a lot of weight. During the summer he becomes bones and skin. I prefer him in winter because he is so nice and like to be at home a lot. He is very strange cat. He has different sounds for different kind of food. he is very sweet.

The cat world is so much like the people world. It could be that the older cats are stealing her food. To make sure that she gets the food that is hers, I would suggest that you feed her in a separate place and stay with her until she is done. If she still seems hungry it might just means that she needs a little extra attention being that she is not with her mom. DCMerkle