Postbeetle,

Depending on how many cats and how much they weighed it sounds to me like he was underfeeding them. As they grew bigger the percentage of their total weight to feed grew bigger, but he was still feeding them the same amount.

I.E. 3 % of 25 lbs. of cats would have been .75 lbs. of feed, but when the total weight had grown to 50 lbs he needed to up that to 1.5 pounds of feed.

Bug feeders are great. I have one for bluegills.

If pigs could fly bacon would be harder to come by and there would be a lot of damaged trees.