Fattening up a skinny cat

[Caplin]

Hi,

I have two cats, one is a perfect weight, the other has always been skinny (2yrs old). She is very active, eats well. We recently got a new puppy and her weight has dropped. I make sure she has plenty of food in a safe, puppy free place. But she goes out lots so I think she has skipped meals.

She was at the vet and they commented that if she loses more they might want to check her, but she seems healthy. So going to have a bash at fattening her up, otherwise she might need checked for a thyroid issue. Hopefully just stress over new puppy and she seems more settled.

Right now she gets dried food always available, and half a pouch of Felix good as it looks twice a day. She often eats the other cats portion, although sometimes she just licks off the jelly 🤨

Any tips on a good, fatty food I could give her?

Only one pouch of felix a day? Am I reading that right? I have a thin active cat and she has 2 pouches a day plus biscuits. The back of the box has a feeding guide that says 4 pouches but, presumably, that’s without biscuits. It won’t let me add a photo with the post, I will try to put it on separately.

Whiskas say 4 pouches, but reduce to 2 pouches if also feeding biscuits, and they are the same size.

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My cat who is very active gets freerange biscuits and two pouches a day but sometimes will demand three. He also gets a snack few times a week. He is a slim cat

You could try feeding kitten food for a while as I would think this has more nutrients.

I am also struggling with this. We're trying to sneak extra meals to the skinny one without the slightly chunky one hearing. It is however quite difficult.

Been through this too. One chunk, will hoover anything. One very fussy, anxious about everything, loses weight if you breathe wrong near him.

Fussy's weight dropped when we moved house. On vet advice we fed him a mix of kitten food (high calorie) and adult food.

Did the trick. Keeping it away from the chunk was a battle though!

Ps he's also a jelly/gravy licker...

I found feeding pate cat food instead is a winner. Although finding pate in a bog standard can rather than expensive tray is... elusive. I swear years ago it was all pate in cans as standard?!

Or use a fork to mush the jelly/gravy into the food.

@Everythingiswonderful no, she gets a pouch plus as much Iams biscuits as she wants, bowl is always full. They are a bit fussy over the pouches so no point giving them more as they won't eat it all.

Thanks for the tips, I might give the pate a go and see if that works. They do tend to lick the jelly/gravy off the meat in the pouches and leave a fair bit behind, so maybe pate is a plan. Failing that I might try kitten food for a while!