Both my cats seem to have issues with weight... Snowball is too fat (apparently) and when we recently took Poppet to the vets they told us they could hear a heart murmur and she was too thin.
The vets told us to give Poppet wet food in addition to her normal food once a day, which we've been doing. She's only been on it for a month or so, possibly less, and she's absolutly ballooned - To me she looks and feels massive, much bigger than before she went to the vets. I haven't weighed her recently because I don't have scales that are big enough for her to stand on AND measure in small enough increments (before she went to the vet the scales told us she weighed the same as Snowball, but when the Vet used her animal scales there was a big difference). I don't know whether we should be still feeding her the wet food, since the vets have told us to (if we carry on I can see her being very big by the time we go back in a few months) or whether not feeding it to her would cause another loss in weight or what.
Snowball, on the other hand, is over weight apparently - Well, we've been told that pretty much her whole life, and we've done everything - minimal feeds, trying to get her to exercise more (she just won't), getting her to run around by tempting her with her combs then calling her back to another person Nothing works, she's still as porky as ever. I'm beginning to think she's a Six Dinner Sid
She doesn't get masses of food (less than Poppet, and less than she used to get) but still manages to maintain herself.
Is there anyway to help them?
The vets told us to give Poppet wet food in addition to her normal food once a day, which we've been doing. She's only been on it for a month or so, possibly less, and she's absolutly ballooned - To me she looks and feels massive, much bigger than before she went to the vets. I haven't weighed her recently because I don't have scales that are big enough for her to stand on AND measure in small enough increments (before she went to the vet the scales told us she weighed the same as Snowball, but when the Vet used her animal scales there was a big difference). I don't know whether we should be still feeding her the wet food, since the vets have told us to (if we carry on I can see her being very big by the time we go back in a few months) or whether not feeding it to her would cause another loss in weight or what.
Snowball, on the other hand, is over weight apparently - Well, we've been told that pretty much her whole life, and we've done everything - minimal feeds, trying to get her to exercise more (she just won't), getting her to run around by tempting her with her combs then calling her back to another person Nothing works, she's still as porky as ever. I'm beginning to think she's a Six Dinner Sid
Is there anyway to help them?