Free-Feed: A process allowing a cat open access throughout the day to a food bowl.
Frost Point: Term referring to lilac (lavender) point.
Full Tom: An unneutered male cat.
These are lithe cats with fast metabolisms, but some cats may not be able to free-feed without getting fat. Some Balinese and Javanese cats can free-feed without trouble, but others, particularly alters, may eat more heavily.
If you have been free-feeding, switch them over. Don't put out any food the first morning; that evening, put out the dishes and supervise the cats. They will most likely be hungry and eat most of the food.
The Bombay cat is known to have a hearty appetite and although most do well free-feeding, some have a tendency to gain weight. This can be handled by rationing food or by switching to a low calorie feed.
Fleas: Wingless, jumping parasites that feed on blood.
Flehmening: The grimace a cat makes when it draws air over the Jacobsen's Organ in its mouth.
Free-feed: A feeding process that gives a cat open access to a food bowl all day.
 See also: Contrast, Mask, Ticking, Vaccine, Tortie
  
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