I made a post on here a couple days ago about my fat cat honey. Honey is 11 months old and she is already overweight. I wanted to free feed her because it has always worked for my four year old cat but I want her to be her healthy best self so I’ve decided to put them on a schedule. Rufus is four and weighs 12 pounds (vet says that’s a great weight for his size) and honey is 11 pounds and she is a petite cat. I’d love for her to get down around 9 or 10 pounds.
Please don’t judge me for how overweight honey is. I play with her for at least 40 minutes every day and it really just dawned on me how big she’s gotten a week ago and Ive felt terrible about it. She was starving as a kitten when I found her so I’ve never wanted to withhold food from her but I think that’s definitely the healthiest thing to do at this point. I just bought a multi cat automatic feeder off Amazon and I’m excited to put it into practice!
my tentative schedule for Rufus: 1 Sheba cuts in gravy at night and 1 in the morning as well (I add a lot of water to this and he doesn’t eat the chunks so I don’t think he’s getting a lot of calories from this- just mainly water and diluted gravy?). 3 oz of dry food split up into 3 feeding sessions (6:00 am, 3m, and midnight).
honey: half a can of fancy feast pate at night and 2 oz of food spread between 6:00, 3:00, and midnight.
thank you so much for any feedback you might have for me. This website is really such a gift. I don’t want my cats to be overfed on their diet but I also don’t want to be starving them.
Please don’t judge me for how overweight honey is. I play with her for at least 40 minutes every day and it really just dawned on me how big she’s gotten a week ago and Ive felt terrible about it. She was starving as a kitten when I found her so I’ve never wanted to withhold food from her but I think that’s definitely the healthiest thing to do at this point. I just bought a multi cat automatic feeder off Amazon and I’m excited to put it into practice!
my tentative schedule for Rufus: 1 Sheba cuts in gravy at night and 1 in the morning as well (I add a lot of water to this and he doesn’t eat the chunks so I don’t think he’s getting a lot of calories from this- just mainly water and diluted gravy?). 3 oz of dry food split up into 3 feeding sessions (6:00 am, 3m, and midnight).
honey: half a can of fancy feast pate at night and 2 oz of food spread between 6:00, 3:00, and midnight.
thank you so much for any feedback you might have for me. This website is really such a gift. I don’t want my cats to be overfed on their diet but I also don’t want to be starving them.