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Demon is a fat cat, and she needs to lose weight. She currently weighs 12 pounds and the last vet I saw said she needs to be at an 8-10 pound range, with 10 being the absolute highest. She doesn't slim in at the waist, and her pooch swings when she walks. She's still adorable.
When I talked to her last vet about a weight loss plan she said "Oh, just put her on a light or weight loss food and free feed her. She'll make her own decisions."
Um, no. Free feeding is what made her fat in the first place, and most of the weight loss foods are crap. She's also very picky about what she eats which complicates it.
I've read cat vet articles saying a regular house cat should get about 30 calories/ pound of weight and that losing weight too quickly can result in renal failure.
Does it make sense to feed her the calories needed for a cat .5 pounds lighter to get her lose weight safety? So right now I would feed her about 330 calories (aiming at 11.5), then when she drops to 11.5 feed her for 11, 10.5, etc?
When I talked to her last vet about a weight loss plan she said "Oh, just put her on a light or weight loss food and free feed her. She'll make her own decisions."
Um, no. Free feeding is what made her fat in the first place, and most of the weight loss foods are crap. She's also very picky about what she eats which complicates it.
I've read cat vet articles saying a regular house cat should get about 30 calories/ pound of weight and that losing weight too quickly can result in renal failure.
Does it make sense to feed her the calories needed for a cat .5 pounds lighter to get her lose weight safety? So right now I would feed her about 330 calories (aiming at 11.5), then when she drops to 11.5 feed her for 11, 10.5, etc?
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Otto is a tiny bird of a cat (at 15 lbs) who binges & purges.
Both are free range eaters but don't eat 24/7. I have no clue what you should do. Roscoe isn't picky where Otto is.
I'm convinced Demon is a boredom eater. She also refuses to play with her toys by herself so she gets bored a lot.
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My cat has also gotten a bit chubby. It could be the free feeding, or the fact that she gets treats several times a day.
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[QUOTE]I had one of those wheels for the rats and chinchilla. All of my animals are lazy bums lol. I am currently the only person in my house awake. S is asleep in his chair, Katie on her bed, Diamond in her house, and Demon on the computer chair. <strong>The mean part of me wants to get an airhorn or something and have some fun</strong>.
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Do eeeiiiittt!
My cat is fat too. We've cut out the dry food except for a small snack amount, which she doesn't eat much of anymore. We've been cutting her diet down a little bit at a time, but it's not really having much effect it seems. She seems to have gained weight on a raw chicken diet, which I heard made cats lose weight, so who knows. Maybe she has a gland problem.
But your calorie logic seems to make sense to me. I'd give it a shot, see what happens.
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I'd say try to get her active as much as possible. With Whisky, we got a child's fishing pole and tied a toy mouse on the end, and used that as a toy by casting out the line and he'd go running after it, then attack as we reel it in. I also taped together a shoebox and cut out a couple holes, then filled it with toys that make noise. he loves batting that thing around.
I can't say a definitive "yes!" but your plan sounds good to me!
I think your idea sounds like it could work. Just slowly reduce her intake. It's not like she'll starve.
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FI and my cat, Mickey, used to weigh 19lbs, after a year of dieting we got him down to about 15lbs. Our vet told us to feed him a 1/2 cup of food a day and we would spread it out so he got 4 portions a day. The poor thing only has 5 teeth so sometimes when he ate, he would eat so fast and barely chew that he would throw it back up. So now we only feed him a can of soft food per day, portioning it out 4 times, and he's still doing well losing weight. With feeding Mickey on a schedule we have to feed our other cat Sweeney on a schedule too, since Mickey will go after the other's food.
Be prepared for a hungry and loud kitty, atleast Mickey is.
Maybe it's a good thing I'm going back to work. Now Scott gets to deal with the whiney butts
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They got switched to a diet food very slowly - sprinking it on top, 1/4 diet 3/4 regular, then 1/2 diet 1/2 regular and were losing some weight but the vet recommended that they transition to all diet food. They weren't a fan of it at first - mine would eat only the regular food, but eventually they got used to it
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Of course, now they wake us up at first light, begging for breakfast.
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