The Cat Feeding Study Everyone Quotes Halfway
What this page is: a short film from the XueQiu Pets test room, with the evidence it draws on linked below. The film shows; the linked articles carry the numbers and sources.
"Feed your cat once a day" came from a single 2020 trial at the University of Guelph. Eight cats, same food, same calories. Cats fed once daily did show higher satiety hormones, and that is the part that travelled. Two findings did not: cats fed four times daily were significantly more physically active, and free feeding, the practice most owners actually compare against, was never tested at all.
Running time: 24 seconds.
The film covers one 2020 trial at the University of Guelph: eight cats, the same food, the same calories, fed once or four times a day. The half that travelled is the satiety-hormone result. The half that did not — more physical activity on four meals, and free feeding never tested — is set out with the paper’s own numbers in the first article below.
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