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Fat Cat FINALLY Losing Weight Yay!

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TheShellBeach · 18/03/2023 20:08

I've posted before about Emerald. She is a rescue cat who was enormous when we got her, and she then proceeded to gain even more weight, reaching 6.5 kg by August 2022.

We ended up taking her to Cat Slimming World at the vet's and for months she lost not a gram. It was so disheartening. In November, despite everything, DH and I decided to stop worrying about it. We stopped taking her to be weighed every month but carried on feeding her Obesity Management cat food (dry).

Anyway - my final throw at this problem was to give her 5g less dry food a day than it said on the packet. I figured that if she was very hungry and distressed I would give her more - but she seemed to settle on 21g daily (plus one wet pouch).

So it's been nearly five months since she was weighed, and she needed to go to the vet's for an unrelated cause, so she was (of course) weighed........................and she's lost 650g! The vet was thrilled. So was I. DH was jubilant because he'd said he thought she looked thinner but I thought she looked exactly the same.

Well, I was wrong. So I suppose the point of this thread is - well, there isn't one - but I am hoping she'll get down to a normal weight in another six months.

Fat Cat FINALLY Losing Weight Yay!
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CatChant · 18/03/2023 20:33

Oh well done! I know from bitter experience that it is no easy job to slim down a fat puss.

Emerald is beautiful.

Techno56 · 18/03/2023 20:42

Beautiful girl 🙂

My Arthur is now 150g away from his target of 4.5kg.

Here is disrupting me working, with gravy on his nose from some enthusiastic lunch 🤣

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helpfulperson · 18/03/2023 20:56

Well done Puss. I'm trying to slim down a 6.6kg fatty. I'm planning to buy microchip feeders as I have two cats, one who eats everything but is fairly slim and fatty whom I rarely see eat so I'm not quite sure what's going on. I have wondered if he is getting fed elsewhere but I don't think so.

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TheShellBeach · 18/03/2023 21:18

Techno56 · 18/03/2023 20:42

Beautiful girl 🙂

My Arthur is now 150g away from his target of 4.5kg.

Here is disrupting me working, with gravy on his nose from some enthusiastic lunch 🤣

Oh he's gorgeous.

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Cece92 · 18/03/2023 21:35

Emerald is so beautiful 😍 my daughters got 3 cats all different shapes and sizes. The dad is like 7kg. He's a big chunk but the vet hasn't mentioned it. Saying that the mum cat was always slip but since she got neutered I'd say she ain't far off the sad cat and she's longer and taller. She was the chunky kitten and he was a little thing but he's like a mini lion now 😂 the 2 girls eat way more than him too. He eats his dry food he don't like any time of meat or fish he doesn't like treats either. Think he's just big boned 😂😂😂😂

Florissant · 18/03/2023 21:44

Hooray for feline weight management! Keep up the good work, Emerald and Arthur.

SkaneTos · 18/03/2023 21:45

Well done! Beautiful cats.

everythingisgoingup · 18/03/2023 21:47

Beautiful cats and really well done!

Which food did you give them?

Techno56 · 18/03/2023 21:50

Arthur has royal canin satiety but it doesn't stop him begging. But he begs no matter how much or what we feed him.

2 pouches a day and 9g of biscuits (he needs mostly wet for due to previous UTIs)

Not sure how much this will increase when he's maintaining but I need to work out something else to use once he's slim enough, as it costs so much we can't keep him on it forever.

We have tried the high meat content fresh stuff and it doesn't keep him full up either 😫

everythingisgoingup · 18/03/2023 22:00

techno56
Thanks
Ours are on hills science plan but they seem to be getting bigger 😢

Techno56 · 18/03/2023 22:07

We found that the vet nurse needed to calculate exact amounts needed, not give what they said on the packet.

When we relaxed a bit last time he lost weight, it went back on astonishingly quickly, it's so easy to give them too much especially dry food.

everythingisgoingup · 18/03/2023 22:10

I agree about the dry food

Ours beg and whine

It does seem unnatural to feed cats kibble

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TheShellBeach · 18/03/2023 22:28

Emerald has Satiety Weight Management dry food. 21g a day. The packet said much more than that but I kept cutting it down because nothing was happening.
I think we started on 65g a day!

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Bobbi730 · 18/03/2023 23:31

I need help with this.I have two cats, brother and sister. They have the same amount of food each. They seem to be out and about the same amount of time. She is definitely fat and he is lean and slinky. She doesn't eat his food, if anything, he eats hers. She's very timid so unlikely to have another family. I'm very puzzled. Any advice?

Pixiedust1234 · 19/03/2023 00:11

Oh, congratulations to the slimmers!! Thats absolutely fantastic considering its mostly down to diet and hardly any exercise! (Slithering from bed to bowl and back to bed again isnt exercise apparently).

I guess both cats failed in their attempts to say "its not fat, its floof" 😂

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TheShellBeach · 19/03/2023 12:50

Bobbi730 · 18/03/2023 23:31

I need help with this.I have two cats, brother and sister. They have the same amount of food each. They seem to be out and about the same amount of time. She is definitely fat and he is lean and slinky. She doesn't eat his food, if anything, he eats hers. She's very timid so unlikely to have another family. I'm very puzzled. Any advice?

That's exactly the set-up in this house. We have two cats, one fat, one thin.
We now weigh her food, and give her a lot less than it advises on the packet. It recommends 65 g daily. We've gradually reduced it to 21 g daily.

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TheShellBeach · 19/03/2023 12:55

And I laughed when the vet asked if she was eating elsewhere.
Emerald is so lazy that even when we put her into the garden for some exercise, she just miaows to be let back in.
There is zero chance of her being fed elsewhere because she doesn't go anywhere.

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Catsmere · 30/03/2023 02:33

I’m trying to get my Daisy’s weight down - she’s 5.2 kg, well over what she should be. She’s gained weight on Hill’s Perfect Weight and on their Macrobiotic. I’ve had her on Purina Pro Plan Weight Loss for a month, no sign of loss yet. What bothers me is that the recommendation on the pack is for 56g per day for a 5kg cat. Now 56g is 196 calories, and the vet said to have Daisy on 200 calories a day. Which would be fine, except 56g of this food is nearly a cupful, and she simply doesn’t get through that much food a day. She’s a sedentary, indoor-only cat in a very small unit, and though I’m trying to get her used to wearing a harness and have a secure one, she’s less interested in going outside since she heard A Noise 🙀 the other day and took off in panic (said noise was our neighbour in her own unit).

I do hope time will prove this food works!

Fat Cat FINALLY Losing Weight Yay!
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TheShellBeach · 30/03/2023 09:14

Catsmere · 30/03/2023 02:33

I’m trying to get my Daisy’s weight down - she’s 5.2 kg, well over what she should be. She’s gained weight on Hill’s Perfect Weight and on their Macrobiotic. I’ve had her on Purina Pro Plan Weight Loss for a month, no sign of loss yet. What bothers me is that the recommendation on the pack is for 56g per day for a 5kg cat. Now 56g is 196 calories, and the vet said to have Daisy on 200 calories a day. Which would be fine, except 56g of this food is nearly a cupful, and she simply doesn’t get through that much food a day. She’s a sedentary, indoor-only cat in a very small unit, and though I’m trying to get her used to wearing a harness and have a secure one, she’s less interested in going outside since she heard A Noise 🙀 the other day and took off in panic (said noise was our neighbour in her own unit).

I do hope time will prove this food works!

I think you need to give her a lot less food than this. We found that Emerald only lost weight when she was fed a third of the amount the packet said.
Read some of my previous posts on this thread. We ended up only giving our cat 21g daily instead of the 65g recommended.

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Catsmere · 30/03/2023 22:06

I think you need to give her a lot less food than this. We found that Emerald only lost weight when she was fed a third of the amount the packet said.
Read some of my previous posts on this thread. We ended up only giving our cat 21g daily instead of the 65g recommended.

I wish I could give her a lot less, but the problem is that it’s already less than the calorie requirement the vet specified, and when cats aren’t getting enough calories, they store what they are getting as fat - it’s one of those things the body does. Quite a conundrum … I hope I don’t have to change food yet again!

Catsmere · 30/03/2023 22:08

Drat, borked the quote!

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