Posted by tabitha on August 22, 2004, at 1:15:58
In reply to Questions for cat lovers, posted by sb417 on August 21, 2004, at 23:46:07
My cat was getting plump, so I started measuring her food. The bag said 1/2 cup per day. She still had a baggy tummy, so I switched to adult healthy weight maintenance brand. Now she looks like a good weight. It's dry food. I read that it's important for the #1 ingredient to be meat rather than grain or meat by-product. Cats don't really digest grain very well, although lots of the commercial dry foods are mostly grain meal.
I only feed her 1x per day. When she was on the fattier food, she'd leave some of it, and often other cats would come in the yard and eat it (and there would be a big ruckus with the cats hissing and growling at each other) Now that she's on the diet food, she finishes it all, and no more invading neighbor cats. She seems to do OK with just one feeding per day.
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