How much does your cat weigh?
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eltawater said:
Rufus is about 6.5kg at 6 years of age. We feed him two pouches of soft food a day, with around 8-9 royal canin biscuits per meal.
The little sod then supplements said diet with 3-4 mice/voles/shrews daily, judged by counting the piles of entrails and skulls left on the kitchen floor/rear patio/front door step/driveway.
Macavity, our 6.5kg ginger bruiser, practising his Facebook Angle. He still looks huge.
I have three Maine Coon crosses that all came from rescue.
When I got them a year ago all three were around the 3Kg and just a bag of bones. I don't think they weigh much over 4Kg now, but all look far healthier and have filled out a bit. I don't think they will ever be huge cats but they are now happy cats
When I got them a year ago all three were around the 3Kg and just a bag of bones. I don't think they weigh much over 4Kg now, but all look far healthier and have filled out a bit. I don't think they will ever be huge cats but they are now happy cats
As mentioned earlier we have a female that I believe to be overweight. We find it difficult to regulate her food- she will quite offer scoff it and then vomit, we understand she was in the rescue home for a number of months before she came to us.
The problem is that 1) she is an utter house cat, hates going out, and rarely goes more than a few metres from the house 2) we have a very old male (15-18) who will only eat very little in a session, and came from a bad background so likes to eat alone. The female therefore comes in and eats the male's food. Repeatedly letting them in/out when they get on well seems bad, he also eats mostly at night when we are not around.
We also suspect she's getting fed elsewhere.
She is a very small boned cat yet has doubled her weight to 1 stone in 2 years, and has a notable "paunch".
The problem is that 1) she is an utter house cat, hates going out, and rarely goes more than a few metres from the house 2) we have a very old male (15-18) who will only eat very little in a session, and came from a bad background so likes to eat alone. The female therefore comes in and eats the male's food. Repeatedly letting them in/out when they get on well seems bad, he also eats mostly at night when we are not around.
We also suspect she's getting fed elsewhere.
She is a very small boned cat yet has doubled her weight to 1 stone in 2 years, and has a notable "paunch".
Edited by 0a on Tuesday 18th October 16:40
I was just searching the net for how much to feed a cat when this thread on PH came up 
Just been to the vets for annual jabs and check up, they weighed Lily who weighed in at 9.1kg
Last year she was 7.7kg
Obviously we have not noticed this greedy guts' weight gain so vet has put her on a diet
she was just a little vague about how much to feed her, so I'll carry on looking
The little cat Poppy weighed about 5kg and is fine on weight
Just been to the vets for annual jabs and check up, they weighed Lily who weighed in at 9.1kg
Last year she was 7.7kg
Obviously we have not noticed this greedy guts' weight gain so vet has put her on a diet
she was just a little vague about how much to feed her, so I'll carry on looking
The little cat Poppy weighed about 5kg and is fine on weight
missdiane said:
I was just searching the net for how much to feed a cat when this thread on PH came up
Just been to the vets for annual jabs and check up, they weighed Lily who weighed in at 9.1kg
Last year she was 7.7kg
Obviously we have not noticed this greedy guts' weight gain so vet has put her on a diet
she was just a little vague about how much to feed her, so I'll carry on looking
The little cat Poppy weighed about 5kg and is fine on weight
If your vets are good they'll have a qualified vet nurse that you can be referred to. That's a huge jump in weight Andy just cutting back her normal diet probably won't be enough (unless she is overeating vastly)Just been to the vets for annual jabs and check up, they weighed Lily who weighed in at 9.1kg
Last year she was 7.7kg
Obviously we have not noticed this greedy guts' weight gain so vet has put her on a diet
she was just a little vague about how much to feed her, so I'll carry on looking
The little cat Poppy weighed about 5kg and is fine on weight
You'll benefit from monthly weight checks at the surgery rather than trying to do it yourself (they are usually focus appointments but they may advise a proper at loss diet from them)
I have appointments every day I work for helping pets to lose weight, overweight pets are referred to me, sadly I am kept very busy as a result.
Sorry your vet wasn't a bit more proactive in helping you. Our vets are very good....at passing pets over to me
Thanks
We have to go back in 6 weeks, so they definitely want to monitor her, which is good, I can find out how much dry we feed her, and how much wet, but not mixed, but she did say we should aim to feed her as per a 7kg cat, and if she is getting really hungry to up it a bit
thing is, there is 2 of them and I guess she eats some of little ones portion of dried too, plan is (vet advice) to feed them the usual wet food in the morning (50gr) and then let dried food run out and feed a little bit of dried later on when they ask for it, making sure we don't put down too much
She also mentioned about a different food for maine coons; royal canin, we feed her Applaws, not sure what the difference is, but I may look at getting a bag and trying to integrate food over if it will benefit
Amazing how the weight creeps on though, I never thought for a minute she would be over weight but when we got home I looked at some older pictures and you can definitely see a difference all over, not just in the tummy
I'm trying to attach a picture, but it doesn't like my bitmap
excuse crap qulaity, also needed to crop to take me out
We have to go back in 6 weeks, so they definitely want to monitor her, which is good, I can find out how much dry we feed her, and how much wet, but not mixed, but she did say we should aim to feed her as per a 7kg cat, and if she is getting really hungry to up it a bit
thing is, there is 2 of them and I guess she eats some of little ones portion of dried too, plan is (vet advice) to feed them the usual wet food in the morning (50gr) and then let dried food run out and feed a little bit of dried later on when they ask for it, making sure we don't put down too much
She also mentioned about a different food for maine coons; royal canin, we feed her Applaws, not sure what the difference is, but I may look at getting a bag and trying to integrate food over if it will benefit
Amazing how the weight creeps on though, I never thought for a minute she would be over weight but when we got home I looked at some older pictures and you can definitely see a difference all over, not just in the tummy
I'm trying to attach a picture, but it doesn't like my bitmap
excuse crap qulaity, also needed to crop to take me out
Edited by missdiane on Monday 10th September 17:43
My British Shorthair was 8.5kg in march, I was advised to put him completely on dry food as it's easily measured. He is now on Royal Canin Obesity food 60grams per day. He now weighs 7.5kg and never seemed to be hungry.
It's too difficult to get him regularly to the vet so I just weigh him at home, the vet seems happy with the progress we've made.
It's too difficult to get him regularly to the vet so I just weigh him at home, the vet seems happy with the progress we've made.
well you know that the older you get the less you weigh as your not as active, well it goes for cats too.
mine is 20 years old, and weighs 3.1 kilo, but is a bag of bones an fur really.
but she's happy and doesn't really eat a lot, although she will bite and scratch your legs to the bone for chicken kebab and tuna.
mine is 20 years old, and weighs 3.1 kilo, but is a bag of bones an fur really.
but she's happy and doesn't really eat a lot, although she will bite and scratch your legs to the bone for chicken kebab and tuna.
We've got 3, the small mackerel tabby Siber is about 3kg and tiny with it but the big tabby and white, Aero, is over 7kg but big boned, with the ginger one, Flake, being in the middle somewhere. We've found the best way to stop the big one eating all the others food was to get one of these:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B004G9L1H2/ref=asc_df_B...
Just fill it up with some dry food, the others can fish something out as and when they're hungry as they're both natural grazers but the biggest one will trough the lot if you put it in a dish. This way he only bothers if he's *really* hungry.
Have to be watchful for them getting too smart and just knocking it over!
http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B004G9L1H2/ref=asc_df_B...
Just fill it up with some dry food, the others can fish something out as and when they're hungry as they're both natural grazers but the biggest one will trough the lot if you put it in a dish. This way he only bothers if he's *really* hungry.
Have to be watchful for them getting too smart and just knocking it over!
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