Kayllisti
08-13-2007, 06:31 PM
About this time last year, I adopted a young cat from the shelter. He's now about 2 years old; we've named him Fnord.
Fnord was my first pet (not including the many my family had when I was a child) and I wanted to be meticulous about his health. I fed him the food the vet reccomended and he was always the perfect weight and very active.
A few months after I adopted Fnord, a friend of mine had to give up his cat. Not wanting the cat to go to a shelter, I took this cat in. He too, has always been well behaved.
Ever since, I have found it extremely difficult to monitor my cats' weights. I feed them the exact reccomended amount according to the information on the bag of the dry food, but both of them seemed to be gaining weight.
I have tried feeding them smaller amount seperately. This seemed to work fine, each of them eating the proper amount seperate from the other. But then I noticed that both of them had gained even more weight on what should have been a much lower calorie diet! So, watching them closely, I found that they have been eating the dog's food too, and quite a lot of it! My dog has the opposite problem, she has always been slightly under-weight. So, I have to keep her food down and available to her all day.
Does anybody have any suggestions on how I can better regulate my cats' diets in a multi-pet household?
Fnord was my first pet (not including the many my family had when I was a child) and I wanted to be meticulous about his health. I fed him the food the vet reccomended and he was always the perfect weight and very active.
A few months after I adopted Fnord, a friend of mine had to give up his cat. Not wanting the cat to go to a shelter, I took this cat in. He too, has always been well behaved.
Ever since, I have found it extremely difficult to monitor my cats' weights. I feed them the exact reccomended amount according to the information on the bag of the dry food, but both of them seemed to be gaining weight.
I have tried feeding them smaller amount seperately. This seemed to work fine, each of them eating the proper amount seperate from the other. But then I noticed that both of them had gained even more weight on what should have been a much lower calorie diet! So, watching them closely, I found that they have been eating the dog's food too, and quite a lot of it! My dog has the opposite problem, she has always been slightly under-weight. So, I have to keep her food down and available to her all day.
Does anybody have any suggestions on how I can better regulate my cats' diets in a multi-pet household?