Advice on cat dieting please

cakey

spike7451 wrote: »

Orbit was the same,I lost him last Sept & I reckon I spent a good £400.

i'm so sorry, its so sad, i would have got fluffy a kidney transplant, but they were £8000. i would have paid it too, but he passed after a week of the diagnosis, and being on a drip all week

spike7451

cakey wrote: »

i'm so sorry, its so sad, i would have got fluffy a kidney transplant, but they were £8000. i would have paid it too, but he passed after a week of the diagnosis, and being on a drip all week

Thank's,
Orbit had something wrong with his heart too,he went in his own time at home & had 14-15 good years.

cakey

spike7451 wrote: »

Thank's,
Orbit had something wrong with his heart too,he went in his own time at home & had 14-15 good years.

aw bless. i wasn't so lucky, fluffy was only 5

Fire_Fox

How are you getting on, Steel? Noah has been to the vets today and is officially one stone (6.5kg) of lean mean [STRIKE]fighting[/STRIKE] sleeping machine! :eek: But the vet was happy no kitty Weight Watchers for us just yet.

paddypaws101

Aw Firefox...he has really done well then hey? Still never saw those pics you promised!
Steel....how is the regime going? My Peggy has lost a fraction of an ounce on our cAtkins diet. Oh well...

paddypaws101

Hey Steel....can we get a progress report on Fat Cat and pals?
I just checked Peggy on the human scales and she has lost around a pound, down to 14 pounds! They have all been on wet food rather than dry for several months now so it has been pretty gradual weight loss, but I am pleased it has started to shift. She is still a big dough ball but at least I have not heard her get caught in the cat flap for a while now......

So come on, how are your gang getting on?

spike7451

Well,on my way home from work tonight,I got a mixed Kebab on Nann (I'm sober!) & am eating it in bed as my living rooms a tip while we get the gas in.
Just went to get a glass of diet soda & came back in to see Daisy Cat wolfing down a big slice of Donner meat!! (WITH chili sauce!!Guess who's going to have the 'Burning Ring Of Fire' later....)

Steel_2

Hi everyone! Sorry I haven't been back for a while. Work has been very manic.

I thought I'd give you an update on the diet of my three...which is...

Fatty lady is now 5.9kg down from 6.8kg!!
Skinny lady is up from 2.7kg to 3kg
Normal boy hasn't moved one jot from where he was, but the baby rabbits will be out soon so we're expecting a drop through exercise.

Stuck to the diet of feeding them wet food with some crunchies mixed in several times a day and that has now settled into a routine. At 8am on the dot all three are on the bed if I'm not up. If it creeps to 8:05 they come and sit on me until I can't breathe and have to get up.

I'm starting to shift the routine a little and lengthen the time between meals in the hope I can cut Fatty and Normal down to eating their daily rations in three meals from four. Skinny I'm leaving at about 6 meals plus treats.

I was worried that Fatty had lost the weight too fast so introduced a few extra crunchies during the day for her a few weeks ago. She does hang around the food bowls still but she's not manic for food, just hopeful. I'll keep an eye on her weight and if she's still losing too fast I'll add more wet food and a few treats, although I'm aware with the warmer weather next door will start opening their kitchen window and she may start stealing food from their cats' bowls.

I saw her lick her bum without effort the other day and also she got to warp speed in the garden chasing one of the others. She seems quite happy. And her extensive belly waddle is dissappearing! She still has a hanging flap near the back but I'm not too concerned - I know neutered females can have them.

So that's my furballs.

What about Noah and Peggy? How are they doing?

paddypaws101

Gosh Steel, that is fantastic progress with your gang. I know there is a big debate about the benefits of free feeding, but there is something satisfying about a 'meal time' and all food eaten!
I would give fatty more meat rather than biscuits if you are really concerned she is losing too fast, sounds like they are doing well on the wings. Check her muscle mass around the front quarters to monitor weight.
Peggy has dropped around a pound I think. The strange thing is that she really eats very little now her biscuits are taken away...she chomped a chicken wing for her tea and is now not at all interested in the leftover tinned food in the bowls. I think she has fat genes!

Steel_2

I'm convinced it's the free-eating that's caused so much trouble with Fatty. She simply did not regulate her eating and would carry on going until she couldn't move far from the food bowl and had to lie down or she threw it back up.

She's not a great lover of raw but will eat it if I prepare it for her. The crunchies I give them are high-protein ones with barely any cereal in at all and they find them quite satisfying. They certainly don't carry on scoffing huge amounts of them like the standard cat biscuits. They do leave some sometimes at the bottom of the bowl, which is almost unheard of.

I believe like humans Fatty was eating too much carbs which wasn't giving her the 'full up' tummy signal. Now she's on higher protein she can walk away when she's had enough. Ok..it's not a huge amount left in the bowl, but it's a start.

Good news about Peggy's weight loss!