Strategies for dealing with an obese cat?

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9. 2 of our 4 cats, both altered boys, were getting a bit chunky.

We switched from mostly dry food to mostly canned pate' for everyone. We feed everybody 4 times a day - 3 of the feedings are the pate', which we mix with enough water to make a slurry. The vet says the wet food fills them up more, and sticks with them longer, and the water also helps fill them up more as well as helping with hydration.

They get a more generous amount of the pate' for breakfast, and smaller amounts at 2 PM and 10PM. A small scoop of kibble at 7 PM, in the slow feeder dishes that make them work for it.

Everyone is fed in a separate location because the younger boy eats like a dog - pretty much inhales his food. He'd be done and going to everyone else's bowls before they'd be half done.

Both boys slimmed down noticeably in just a few months.

Good luck.

Just remembered - I saw a type of slow feeder dish for canned food on an episode of Jackson Galaxy's My Cat From Hell show. The dish had sloping sides with textured surfaces that you mash the pate' into. Don't have a link - sorry.