Help with putting chubby cat on a diet!!

rita-rabbit

Beavis_cat wrote: »

Hi there

I was wondering if a kind forummer could please help me with my chubby cat...

We got a pair of rescue boys a few weeks ago. They're both darlings, but one of them is somewhat overweight - we took him to the vet at the weekend and he tipped the scales at 6.9kg :eek: So he's now on a diet.

Both cats are fed a mixture of wet (approximately one pouch a day of the best we can afford - at the moment it's Iams, which they love) and dry (Hills Science Plan mature cat, around 30g a day each). Our second cat is a healthy 4kg, so we'd been giving them both the same amount assuming that Fat Cat would lose weight. Wrong! He's very sedentary and hasn't lost a thing in the past couple of weeks.

So my question is: how much should I cut Fat Cat's food by - I know it's not good to crash diet cats, so I don't want to hugely underfeed him. I've read the guidelines on the back of all the packets we feed him and we're giving him what they recommend for a 4kg cat - is that the right thing to do? We've cut out all treats and are trying to get him off his chubby bottom too to do some exercise! The vet said she'd like him to be 5kg, but he's a big-framed cat.

Would be very grateful for any help x

As well as raw feeding - at least it will work their jaws - alot of postings on this site you can refer to.