The fattest of cats...!

Re: The fattest of cats...!

Bouteloua — Sun, 08 Sep 2013 23:28:07 GMT

We recommend that heavy cats go to a mostly canned diet. The reduction in carbs and protein increase helps a lot. Many people call this the "Catkins" diet. We recommend this for our diabetic cats. Proteins are increased and carbohydrates are decreased. Yes these diets are meant for diabetic cats. However think of these heavy cats as being a diabetic case waiting for a cat to happen and you will understand how this type of diet change can help with weight loss. I'm not sure what is available in the UK. We often recommend Hill's M/D, Purina D/M, and even high quality kitten diets. I know that this all seems contradictory to everything that we have learned. Here are a couple of sites that can help you.

http://www.felinediabetes.com/diet.htm

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/16452.php

Re: The fattest of cats...!

Rebecca Ridley — Wed, 28 Aug 2013 20:10:19 GMT

Thanks all for your suggestions. We aren't fans of Hills at our practice, just recently moved to using Virbac foods and having great successes normally! Think encouraging her to exercise is the way forward, hiding food around the house (great idea!) or using feeding balls etc. Will give it a go!

Re: The fattest of cats...!

Jenny Cook RVN — Wed, 28 Aug 2013 12:16:46 GMT

Hills metabolic diet is great, got lots of patients on it and doing well.

Re: The fattest of cats...!

Sal the 1st — Tue, 27 Aug 2013 22:33:41 GMT

small amount of ration in the bowl and then get ingenious and hide the rest around the house so the cat has to work for it - it worked well with one of mine when he was a house cat - not so well now he has a list of little old ladies on his daily rounds and a ready supply of bunnies and rats since they started the harvesting

Re: The fattest of cats...!

Lisa Goodship — Tue, 27 Aug 2013 22:26:26 GMT

I have had a few cases where patients seem to be on as little as possible and still not loosing weight. I got in touch with my hills rep, as was on r/d, and they advised me in one case, which was a dog, was being fed too little - o had reduced food as thought not working, the body almost goes into starvation mode and stores all the food you feed it, if that makes sense?!! I had to feed more to get the metabolism working again and then reduce the food, did seem to work. Maybe get in touch with your rep to see if they have any advice for this specific case. Another idea I was given was to fed from an egg carton, so they have to eat slower, rather then eating all straight from bowl.

Good luck lets us know how it goes

Re: The fattest of cats...!

bunnyshouse — Tue, 27 Aug 2013 17:03:02 GMT

Just had a cat 12kg!!! Think its the biggest cat the practice has seen. Weight reduction seems to be a lot slower with metabolic so we have gone with rd in this case for the time being with an interactive feeder.

Re: The fattest of cats...!

Steph Worsley — Tue, 27 Aug 2013 16:54:44 GMT

royal canin satiety maybe?

Re: The fattest of cats...!

svngem — Tue, 27 Aug 2013 15:50:50 GMT

Is the new Hills Metabolic an option? We had a 10.4kg cat on it whose doing very well