Dom wrote:
It's all in the subject title. To give you a feel for things, my cat
will beg (cry, poke at me, search the trash for food) as soon as I get
home. I give him a 3oz can of gravy-lovers food, and a bowl of hard
food, and he licks up all the gravy in the first and takes a nibble
from the second, then comes back and cries, pokes and searches,
again. If I give him more, he repeats the pattern. He leaves all the
food in the bowl, but still wants more.

He is now up to 14 lbs, and I refuse to give him more until his late
night feeding, but this goes on all day AND NIGHT. He wakes me at
least 3 times a night. I can't see why he wants more food when he
leaves so much behind.

What do I do? I'm really frantic about this.

If he's your only cat, and an indoor cat, then don't feed him for a day or
two until he's really hungry, and then just geve him a little bit so he will
eat it all before you give him any more. In my case, I have one who weighs
about 30 lbs, and stuffs himself to the point of throwing up. but I keep
putside cats and I have five of them, so they all share an infinite supply
of kibbles plus they eat each others food when its first eater walks away
from it. so I don't know how to keep "Biggie" from eating.