Total Cat Mojo: The Ultimate Guide to Life with Your Cat

by Jackson Galaxy

Hunt, Catch, Kill, Eat, Groom, Sleep (HCKEGS).

Cats require somewhere around twenty-five to thirty-five calories per pound a day for maintenance.

If you go to bed at 11:00, feed your last meal at around 9:30. Right before that last meal, engage in HCK. Bring your cat to a boil (see “Boil and Simmer,” page” 88), get him pooped out, then go for that second wind; now it will take less time for him to get completely worn out. Then he eats, grooms, and sleeps, and then you go to sleep.