Qs
A twelve pound cat who should be about eight pounds: do you feed the amount recommended for a ten pound cat to safely take the weight off?
Is it best to feed many small servings than two or three portions in a day? She has recently switched from canned food to raw food. The raw food recommendations in ounces or calories are much lower than for canned food, so she is already feeling deprived. She loves to eat. Although she has an adequate portion of food nutritionally, she wants more, and gets upset watching us try to get an adequate amount of canned food into our hyperthyroid cat. We do our best to distract her by walking her outside on a nice day, or combing her or giving catnip or toys and play, or lap sitting. She still gets stressed, the other cat, too, and we try to keep peace in ourselves and between them. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Tossing treats is such a happy time for both cats, and the time they are most active. I stopped doing it for a few days because of the extra calories. Today I reinstated it by cutting out a meal for our overweight cat, but it was hard for her to go so long between meals.
A twelve pound cat who should be about eight pounds: do you feed the amount recommended for a ten pound cat to safely take the weight off?
Is it best to feed many small servings than two or three portions in a day? She has recently switched from canned food to raw food. The raw food recommendations in ounces or calories are much lower than for canned food, so she is already feeling deprived. She loves to eat. Although she has an adequate portion of food nutritionally, she wants more, and gets upset watching us try to get an adequate amount of canned food into our hyperthyroid cat. We do our best to distract her by walking her outside on a nice day, or combing her or giving catnip or toys and play, or lap sitting. She still gets stressed, the other cat, too, and we try to keep peace in ourselves and between them. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Tossing treats is such a happy time for both cats, and the time they are most active. I stopped doing it for a few days because of the extra calories. Today I reinstated it by cutting out a meal for our overweight cat, but it was hard for her to go so long between meals.