Moving a cat onto senior food (boring unless you're a cat person!)

[Kayleigh]

Probably boring, even if you are a cat person - but here goes !

The vet has told us to move our handsome cat onto senior food as he is now 9. Can't quite believe he is 9 as he still acts like a kitten .

He is a big cat over 4kg, but the vet says not fat, just big, and at the moment he eats a 400g tin of food a day - half in morning and half in evening, plus some dried biscuits in eve before we go to bed.

Please bear with me .............
.....I have done some homework at the supermarket and the senior food only comes in half the amounts (or less) of the tins I was buying. I can buy 190g tins or 100g pouches.

Should I be giving him 1/2 a tin each meal, or one sachet - in effect halving his diet.Or do I give him one tin at each meal and two sachets ?????

Confused !!!!

I feed my eight year old cat four times a day, with one foil pack or pouch of Felix Senior at each meal. If you're only feeding him twice a day, he won't be getting enough. The recommendation on the box of foil trays that I have in frot of me as I type is:

"An average senior cat (4kg) needs approximately three foils per day as several meals".

WigWamBam, that makes sense. i didn't actually read the instructions, just looked at sizes and assumed. Wrongly obviously. Looking at the price of the senior food compared to the normal adult stuff it costs twice as much to feed an older cat. Lucky I love him

Kayleigh - try Hill's Science Plan dried food for old cats (sorry! senior cats!). If he's still got all his teeth that is