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mike_c

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30. are those grain based catfoods or meat/other protein based cat foods?

Reply to AnotherMcIntosh (Original post)

Sat Apr 27, 2013, 06:32 PM

Apr 2013

I'm not familiar with any of the three, hence my question. We feed dry (rice based) adult cat weight maintenance kibble ad libitum to our kitties, but supplement our oldest with additional canned meat based food because she is toothless and doesn't get enough calories otherwise (beef and turkey mostly, no fish currently).

Most of our cats do fine on this diet, but one is obese, despite all attempts to limit her food intake. We actually sent her to fat camp for several months, i.e. isolated her from the other cats at a friend's house who fed her a strict calorie limited diet while giving opportunities for daily outdoor exercise, to little avail. We've just recently gotten her back, and haven't gotten in to the vet yet, but I'm wondering whether somehow taking her entirely off of a grain based diet might be helpful. She is healthy otherwise, but is wider than she is long.

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