Diet food for cat

[Cocochai]

Our rescue cat (6yo) becomes overweight in the winter and slims down in the summer. The vet said she can tell her weight fluctuates by her pouch.

The vet’s recommended Royal Canin Light biscuits which she loves but I don’t know if she’s being greedy but they just don’t seem to fill her up. She’s constantly hanging around or harassing us for food. She also gets half a pouch of Whiskas wet food daily as she likes the jelly. We think the RC wet food is too expensive.

We previously had her on Go Cat as that’s what she was eating at the rescue, and while it’s not good stuff she never begged for food and just grazed all day, whereas now she mostly eats all the RC food quickly and wails for more. We have double checked and we are definitely giving the right amount of food.

I’ve just been reading on an other thread that people criticise RC as rubbish so I wondered what other brand is good that has a diet/light range please? So many reviews/choices online!

Try Arden grange light, it’s grain free & the biscuits are heart shaped.

I would look for a high quality dry food - unfortunately neither GoCat or Royal Canin fall into that category 🙈

Mine is on a prescribed dry food for medical issues so I can't really help with brands - but as a general rule, you don't want something available in a supermarket.

Has your vet said how many calories she should be on? That at least would give you a starting point in figuring out how much to give her.

I had a similar problem a couple of years ago with my Daisy - put her on the Hill’s Perfect Weight, then the Metabolic. She’d be screaming for more food. She went right on gaining weight, too. (I realise now I wasn’t giving her enough, and as with humans, cats stack on weight when they’re getting too few, as well as too many, calories). I’m trying her on Purina Pro Plan Weight Loss dry atm.

Good luck working this out!

One of my cats was on Hills Metabolic for 2 years and put on half a kilo! I swapped back to a mix of normal dried food and Whiskas pouches and started weighing out the amount of food for her target weight. She is getting close to it after 3 years.

Doesn’t surprise me! The ingredients Hill’s use are, well, they’re not cat food. It annoys me that vets push that brand, it’s really not what it’s cracked up to be.