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Cat Health & Behaviour => Health & Behaviour General => Topic started by: furballmom on September 06, 2008, 18:12:02 PM
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hi guys sorry i havent been round much of late.
took gimley and phoenix for their booster today he currently weight a wopping 6kg instead of the 4 kg he should be. i have been advised to split his meals into three and no more free feeding. the nurse is really trying to push hills r/d or m/d but im not so sure. but then they always try to push it. its going to be a hard struggle as he loves his food and hates exercise. the nurse said to feed him what a 5 kilo cat should eat to start him off any ideas what this should be
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poor Gimley - the indignity of being called a fat cat :-[.
Don't know for sure as mine are quite small cats but the back of the Iams dry food sack says 5kg = 65g of dry food a day; the back of the Iams pouches carton doesn't go up to 5kg but indicates that a 4kg cat = 3 x pouches a day so that might give you some idea of what's needed.
Good luck with the new regime!
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Free feeding makes many a fat cat so just stopping that should help him out ;D
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What ever you do, do it slowly and start by reducing little snacks and the amount of dry food.
I wouldnt use special food.
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they get no snacks and dry food has been reduced for the last two weeks. he is addicted to biscuits
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My misa is a big boy 6 k plus but he loses weight just by reducing the biscuits, my cats free feed and are very unhappy if that doesnt happen cos they are nibblers.
I tthink with the bad weather they are not getting as much exercise as usual so that wont help
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All my cats are free feeders and one especially Misha is a big girl but we started to worry last year as she looked bigger than normal and started limping - we had her tested for everything and anything but internally all fine and no signs of arthritis, etc so vets put her in the fat club (even though I had said she wasn't a piggy cat - she hates anything bar her biscuits and hates soft food), anyways after many weigh ins and her weight fluctuating without any rhyme or reason the vet decided she has a somatic cat and some cats weight just does fluctuate madly!