That Fat Cat!

Re: That Fat Cat!

Jables — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 20:05:29 GMT

Haha I wonder if he'd go for a cat harness? I'll give it a go... Horror stories to follow!

Re: That Fat Cat!

loopylou711 — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 20:26:21 GMT

Speaking on behalf of a fat cat who has urinary problems,

Moderate calorie is great! not noticed to big a difference in weight loss but that more due to the fact he has lost so much already and is starting to get to his target! We use treat ball and kickroo... which he loves ... much refers just batting a pen around!!

But yeah really recommend the moderate calorie food as it is a god send in getting them to lose weight!

Finally note would be... if an indoor cat... cat harness all the way! Luka loves his walks esp in the rain!!

Re: That Fat Cat!

Jables — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 20:19:00 GMT

Great ideas guys thanks, I will definitely get a food ball, and I will try the RCW food. I already hide up his food, and I will get a feliway diffuser. I'll have a word with Hills tomorrow as well, see what they suggest. I can keep a close eye on his SG/pH at work so i can experiment with his food a bit!

This is such a common problem isn't it! I have so many clients in a similar situation.

I heard about WD actually, I might give that a go once I've spoken to Hills.

I really want him to start losing some weight, I think he'd make a good case for our weight clinic board, maybe put up some photos, graphs etc, as a good example.

I bought my cat a Kickeroo today too, he can't leave it alone so hopefully that'll help him burn some off!

I can't believe there's not a diet for this, I think it would sell really well!

xxx

Re: That Fat Cat!

Dodo bird — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 17:03:47 GMT

hi i run a wt clinic and we use hills - i have a cat at the moment who was similar to your cat .spoke to hills who said was ok to try rd (as had no episodes for a while + put loads of wt on with cd diet.) was 9.2kg now 6.2kg ... hills said to ck urine at each visit. wet is preferrable but this cat will only eat dry so need to make sure they have lots of water sites.need to have a specific gravity of about/ less than 1.030 and a pH of around 6.3 to prevent struvite formation .my vet said that obese cats form struvite more readily so would be good to get wt off. alternatively wd is reccommended for struvite wt prone cats and you could use this instead of the rd ..i would give hills a ring on their vet tech line as they were very helpful in this case .and obviously all cases are different ..also reccommend feliway etc to minimise stress.

hope this is of some use

Re: That Fat Cat!

Sal the 1st — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 09:14:52 GMT

is he losing weight? - is he actually eating enough?

dont know if it helps but one of my former cats had this problem and would block at the drop of a hat. After being on sd I started on 1 pouch of cd (1/2 in the morning and 1/2 at night) and as I recall he was on@ 40g rd dry daily split over 2 meals. I did this on the advice of my vet whose opinion was that the most important thing was water intake and not a specific food once the sd period was over- and from my experience I would tend to agree with them - and he did lose weight (he went from almost 7kg to 5.5kg - he was already fat when I got him before anybody says anything) and it did improve his problem. He had steady weight loss, wouldnt say he was starving at all.

with Morris my current fat cat I tend to hide his food in lots of places so he has to find it - that way he expends a bit of energy looking for it - he also has a food ball - would this help at all with the exercise bit?

Re: That Fat Cat!

Maisy — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 08:21:03 GMT

RCW do a moderate calorie urinary diet for cats - godsend seeing as many FLUTD males are overweight! Would be worth a try.

Good Luck!