Two meals is the Devon Rex default
An adult Devon Rex usually needs two meals a day. Her stomach, like most cats', handles defined meals with gaps between them comfortably, and a morning-and-evening rhythm fits her social nature: meals become two of the day's set-piece moments with her people, which this companionable breed values as much as the food itself. Portion those two meals from her measured daily ration rather than from the size of her performance at the kitchen door. A Devon Rex is petite under that short, wavy coat, and small cats reach overfeeding quickly because each casual extra looks tiny relative to the bowl.
When three smaller meals serve her better
Some Devon Rexes genuinely do better on three. The clearest candidate is the fast eater: a cat who inhales a full meal in a minute and then vomits it back, or who spends the long midday gap working the household for food like it is a job. Splitting the identical daily amount into three sittings, with the third placed late in the evening, shrinks each bolus, shortens every hungry stretch and often ends dawn wake-up calls as a side benefit. What three meals must never become is three full meals plus the old extras; the daily total stays fixed while only the division changes.
The real Devon Rex problem: meals you never scheduled
Ask a Devon Rex owner how many meals their cat gets and the honest answer is often "two, officially." This breed specialises in acquiring unofficial feeds. She has large ears, enormous eyes and a chirp engineered by evolution and practice to sound like a creature who has never been fed in her life. In a multi-person home she can collect a second breakfast from a partner who left early, a top-up from a teenager, and a sympathy supper from a guest, all invisible to each other.
Reading her condition under the curls
Judge whether two meals are enough by touch, because her wavy coat distorts the visual picture less than a long coat but still softens it. You should feel ribs easily beneath a thin layer, see a waist from the side as a gentle upward tuck, and feel no pronounced fat pad swinging under the belly. A Devon Rex who is gaining often shows it first as a soft rounding over the ribs while her face stays pixie-thin, which fools owners into thinking her fine. Weigh her monthly; on a small cat, a few hundred grams is a meaningful percentage of her whole body and worth catching while a small portion trim still fixes it.
When the meal count question becomes a vet question
A Devon Rex who suddenly demands more meals than her schedule allows, while eating everything and losing condition, needs a veterinary workup rather than a bigger ration. The same goes for appetite that falls away: this is a breed that ordinarily meets mealtimes with enthusiasm, so skipped meals, picking at food, or new fussiness about textures she used to love are early warnings worth acting on within a day or two, sooner if she seems lethargic or her water intake changes. At the visit, the clearest help you can offer is her actual history: how many meals, what size, what has changed and when, which is another reason her schedule belongs in writing rather than in the memory of whichever human she has been negotiating with.
Recording her meals on her KinsLe profile through Family Sharing gives everyone who feeds her the same two-or-three-meal plan at a glance, ending the second-breakfast negotiations she is counting on.