Strategies for dealing with an obese cat? [View all]
A few months back, my wife and I adopted a cat and her son from a shelter.
She was still nursing at the time, despite being spayed. As soon as she got here she forcefully weaned her son.
The thing is was that she was clearly way over weight when we adopted her; her son, Harry, is just fine.
We took her to the vet, as required by our adoption contract, and the vet said she was healthy, but overweight.
She is always trying to eat Harry's food. Harry is a diffident eater; he walks away and comes back, and if he walks away, and we don't take the dish away, his Mom will finish it off.
We are trying to count calories, to limit her intake to 200 calories a day. It isn't working though. We're feeding her Purina One high protein, suggested by the vet, said to be good for obese cats, but we think she's even fatter now than when we got her.
We know from her history she'd been a street cat while pregnant, and maybe the memory of her hunger makes her gorge as she does.
I'd be interested in any advice from anyone with experience in this issue.
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