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Back home from BIL's funeral. Been out of sorts, as everyone up there (including me) caught some kind of flu bug, so I am just trying to get back to feeling a bit better.
I am re-looking at Feeby's eating situation and figure the most she can be eating in one day of cat food is about 263 calories, and that might be me being a bit generous. She is barely grazing at all on her dry food and I have to really work hard to get her to eat one can of food a day. (She has never figured out how to eat soft food.) If I calculate 20 calories per lb, that would just be enough to sustain a 13 lb cat.
On 8/13 she weighed 15.9 lbs. I haven't gotten her a scale yet, so I tried weighing her today on my scale and for as accurate as I can be it would seem she is somewhere between 15 & 16 lbs. I will try to get my husband to do the same when he comes home from work tonight, to see if we get a similar reading. We do give her human turkey and a bite of whatever else we are eating, and she generally is interested in most of those foods, so that may be what is keeping her weight from dropping so much, but I am concerned.
She is drinking and using the litter box just fine, but is not terribly active (she hasn't been for years, tbh), and still spends at least half her time on that coffee table. I think the fleas are pretty much gone, but maybe the table is a new habit I won't be able to completely break.
What would be better to supplement her food with - human chicken in a can (with water) or baby meat foods? This could be a life long supplement from the looks of it. The chicken is 70 calories in 3 oz. The Gerber 2 baby chicken/gravy is 100 calories is 2.5 oz. I know she likes the canned chicken but it takes days to get her to eat the one can, as I have to mix it with her canned cat food. I haven't tried the baby meat, so I have no idea if I could get her to eat more of it or not.
Thanks. If need be I will start a new thread about this, but figured I would add onto this current thread for anyone who's been following.
I am re-looking at Feeby's eating situation and figure the most she can be eating in one day of cat food is about 263 calories, and that might be me being a bit generous. She is barely grazing at all on her dry food and I have to really work hard to get her to eat one can of food a day. (She has never figured out how to eat soft food.) If I calculate 20 calories per lb, that would just be enough to sustain a 13 lb cat.
On 8/13 she weighed 15.9 lbs. I haven't gotten her a scale yet, so I tried weighing her today on my scale and for as accurate as I can be it would seem she is somewhere between 15 & 16 lbs. I will try to get my husband to do the same when he comes home from work tonight, to see if we get a similar reading. We do give her human turkey and a bite of whatever else we are eating, and she generally is interested in most of those foods, so that may be what is keeping her weight from dropping so much, but I am concerned.
She is drinking and using the litter box just fine, but is not terribly active (she hasn't been for years, tbh), and still spends at least half her time on that coffee table. I think the fleas are pretty much gone, but maybe the table is a new habit I won't be able to completely break.
What would be better to supplement her food with - human chicken in a can (with water) or baby meat foods? This could be a life long supplement from the looks of it. The chicken is 70 calories in 3 oz. The Gerber 2 baby chicken/gravy is 100 calories is 2.5 oz. I know she likes the canned chicken but it takes days to get her to eat the one can, as I have to mix it with her canned cat food. I haven't tried the baby meat, so I have no idea if I could get her to eat more of it or not.
Thanks. If need be I will start a new thread about this, but figured I would add onto this current thread for anyone who's been following.