New cat - help!

[Piggypiggyoinkoink]

You were all so very lovely when Piggycat died in February, this is a little update and plea for assistance!

I wasn’t going to get another one... So I collected her this afternoon from cats protection. Arrived home at 3.30pm, photo is her snuggled up next to me 5 mins ago, so far so good. She’s around 2 and was found on a small holding during the bad weather earlier in the year. Very affectionately if a bit nippy.

Help needed because she is very overweigh, tothe point of having a fat muffin when she sits down, and she can’t wash her bits or roll over. I put her and the cat carrier on the scales when I got in, together they were 1 stone 4. The carrier by itself doesn’t register on the scales. I’ve phoned my vet to register her and have an appointment on Friday for an assessment. I know it needs to be a slow and gradual process, but can anyone recommend quantities of food to be giving her and types of food? She has been on Tesco’s wet food in the rescue but I am planning to get her onto no grain food as soon as possible and thinking to go 50:50 wet and dry?

Any help / encouragement will be most gratefully received!

8kg? That is big! I would take advice from the vet about quantities as I don't think you just drop the amounts drastically. Did the rescue say how much they were feeding her?

The grain free dry food I give is thrive, purizon and encore. I give a mix of wet food too, some grain free and some not (They dont like pate style)

Our rescue was 6.7kg when we got her and now 11 months later she's 5.1kg and is much more active and seems happier :-) After a bit of trial and error we feed her on one pouch of whiskas and 18g of iams per day. The iams are weighed out into pots, so no guesswork. We split this into four meals (half a pouch of whiskas for breakfast and half for tea at 5pm, iams half at lunchtime and half at bedtime around 10pm). It looks like a tiny amount of food for a big cat, but she's never lacked energy and is much more energetic since losing weight. Do you know what she was fed before? We started off with more iams, but realised she wasn't losing weight so gradually brought the portion size down. We do a weigh in with me holding her on our bathroom scales once a month, if we noticed her losing a lot (more than a couple of hundred grams) in a month we would up the amount of iams, but this hasn't happened. We are also very strict on no snacks or extras - as they said when we adopted her, spoil her with fuss not food. Good luck with your lovely new pusscat!

Thank you for replying! I’ll try to get a photo of her sitting - she is huge, and she isn’t a particularly large framed cat.

According to the rescue she was on two wet pouches and 30g of dry (they called it munchies which is not a brand i’m familiar with?), and said that all treats had been stopped. I don’t think she was very active there.

I bought a couple of catnip toys, and she is desperate to play but just can’t manage it. I’m feeling for her at the moment, she really is lovely natured. Trip to pets at home tomorrow to get a few more toys to get her moving might be an idea too.

Congrats on your lovely new puss!
My dear old(since departed) cat had the same weight issues. The vet put her on a special diet that filled her up, making her less prone to overeating. The brand name of the food was Hills, and she loved it, the chicken flavour especially!
She lost the weight overtime and it saved me so much money on boxes of supermarket cat food that she might love one week and turn her nose up at the next week.
Hope you've many happy years together.

Thank you so much!

Here’s a top and a side view.

And one from the back.

She’s weirdly attracted to carrier bags.

Mine likes shoe boxes and bits of paper

7Kgs. So not quite as heavy as I thought, but still around 2.5 - 3Kgs to lose by vet’s reckoning. Diet started this morning. I got a Look at the first portion. Wish us luck!

@Piggypiggyoinkoink. Good Luck! fingers (and paws) crossed for you both.

Apologies for resurrecting an old thread, but I just wanted to update on Project Weightloss.

At her weigh in today, we have reached 4.72Kgs! Still a little to go, but she is a much happier and more active cat. She’s on James wellbeloved low calorie dry food and their sensitive turkey wet, with the occasional lamb pouch chucked in for variety. Weirdly she does not seem at all bothered to have to same thing every day, and has never refused a meal.

Photo as of two minutes ago, didn’t realise i’d Caught her mid-yawn!

Thank you again for your advice

Oh well done!

She looks in really good condition.

She looks fabulous! We had a cat on diet food for life and she wasn't bothered at all by being on the same food.

Shes really gorgous