Hi I have 2 cats - 1 male, about 14 years old, weighs around 9-10lbs (weight has been stable since he was full grown), 1 female, about 12 years old, weighs around 15lbs I've recently transitioned the cats from a free-fed dry food diet to a canned food only diet. Right now they are eating Fancy Feast chicken & beef medley. I wanted to do one of the more "premium" wet foods but this was the one they took to and I figured it was an improvement over the dry either way.
My confusion is in how much they should be eating, since I had always left the dry food out all day. I started with giving them each one can (I think they are 3 oz, they're the really small cans) twice a day (breakfast and dinner time). Gem, the heavy female, cries and cries for food all the time. It seemed like she really was still hungry so I added a 3rd can at lunch time. Typically they won't eat the whole can at that time. So right now they are probably each eating about 2 1/2 - 3 cans per day. Is that too much? OK? It's so hard to listen to her cry so pitifully!
Also, I've read that it's good to rotate foods but I also read that when you switch you have to do it slowly - how do you manage that?
Thanks for any input.
My confusion is in how much they should be eating, since I had always left the dry food out all day. I started with giving them each one can (I think they are 3 oz, they're the really small cans) twice a day (breakfast and dinner time). Gem, the heavy female, cries and cries for food all the time. It seemed like she really was still hungry so I added a 3rd can at lunch time. Typically they won't eat the whole can at that time. So right now they are probably each eating about 2 1/2 - 3 cans per day. Is that too much? OK? It's so hard to listen to her cry so pitifully!
Also, I've read that it's good to rotate foods but I also read that when you switch you have to do it slowly - how do you manage that?
Thanks for any input.