Food for weight gaining MN Cat

Re: Food for weight gaining MN Cat

Alison Daff — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 11:36:33 GMT

We offer both wet and dry variants in the Royal Canin Vet Care Nutrition young male. It is not essential to feed a wet diet to prevent urinary disease and decrease obesity. All Royal Canin feline diets - wet and dry - have the s/o index which means they create an environment unfavourable to the formation of urinary stones. RC VCN Young Male is specially formulated to help maintain lean body mass after neutering and you would have no concerns over protein and calcium levels as these are completely balanced in both wet and dry. If you would like any further information please PM me

Ali

Re: Food for weight gaining MN Cat

Cloudy Weather — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 21:34:53 GMT

Thank you Gemma that's brilliant :)

Re: Food for weight gaining MN Cat

Gemma Burden RVN — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 21:20:35 GMT

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Thanks though I will take what you say on board! Do you know the calorie content of hills young adult?

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The product info for the Young Adult can be found here http://www.hillsproducts.com/General.aspx/en-GB/SP/vetessentials-feline-young-adult/original/bag .

Re: Food for weight gaining MN Cat

Cloudy Weather — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 21:02:29 GMT

You cat sounds like she would get on well with my cat at an all you can eat buffet :) little devils!

Re: Food for weight gaining MN Cat

Cloudy Weather — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 21:01:05 GMT

Oh didn't know this thank you!!Will look into this too :)

Re: Food for weight gaining MN Cat

Cloudy Weather — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 21:00:25 GMT

Thank you I will consider this. Yes that is why I was originally feeding him on dry and I knew he like to graze and it did his teeth good but I worry its a lot of everything pump into a few biscuits and he just doesn't feel the bulk so carries on wanting more food, I did email the company to find out the calorie per gram to work out the BER (i think the calorie per gram is similar to hills sens - 3.96). and yeah did remember to half it because of the wet food - as much as he wished I hadnt!

Thanks though I will take what you say on board! Do you know the calorie content of hills young adult?

Re: Food for weight gaining MN Cat

Gemma Burden RVN — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 19:51:32 GMT

I know you would prefer a wet diet, but we have had quite a bit of sucess with simular cases using the Hills Vet Essentials Young Adult diet. We have used the guide in the front of the Hills product guide to work out feeding amounts (there is a chart that shows the BER and conversion factors and has a formula to allow you to work out how much of a particular diet you would need to feed for that individual), and as long as the owner has done as they were asked then it has worked well.

Re: Food for weight gaining MN Cat

lizabarf — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 19:01:05 GMT

royal canin do a young neutered male in wet and dry

Re: Food for weight gaining MN Cat

Mark Hedberg — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 18:12:29 GMT

To be honest, as long as he's got enough water, quite a few cats are just fine on dry food. I find that they enjoy the crunching, and it helps keep the teeth cleaner. Are you feeding the recommended amount? The wet food assumes you're only feeding the wet food, the dry food assumes you're only feeding dry food. So if the tin says feed a half can, and the dry food says feed 100g (for example), and you're feeding both, that means the cat's getting twice the intake he needs!

(And my cat will certainly scoff the lot if she gets the chance!)