Hi
unfortunately "low fat" dried foods are useless for overweight cats, because they are very high in carbohydrates, and it is this that causes weight gain. Cats need zero carbohydrate in their diet, but they do need fat. So the only way to get your cat to lose weight would be to totally stop the dried food - all dried foods are inappropriately high in carbohydrate. Make the change gradually and ensure you choose high meat content wet foods (60% or more of the named meat ingredient)
I know this works - until last August my cats ate dried food as part of their diet, and a couple of my spayed girls were somewhat overweight - since stopping the dried food, they have slimmed down nicely and all of my cats are a good average weight now.
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Originally Posted by marianne
Hello! Does anyone happen to know of a good low fat dry cat food? Sassy our 3yr old Ragdoll needs to lose a couple of pounds and so far doesn't like any of the low fat ones we've tried. (Royal Canin, Nutro, Science diet) I have her on a Natural one that she kind of likes. I have to keep my kitten food for Milo up high so she can't get to it. He could change to adult food now but not sure which to change him too. Maybe I could give them both regular adult food and monitor the amounts? Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!
(wet food gives Milo loose stools  ) |