Yeah, I have few overweight, too, and that's why I'm trying to switch more
to canned now that I know it is healthy and so much lower in calories.
Fortunately, the overweight ones like anything (partly why they're
overweight I suppose lol) and the ones who only eat dry are pretty good.
But it's hard to have dry for them and try to keep the others on moist only,
so I was hoping to get them off of it. I think I'll try some of the raw
stuff and see. I agree they would be more likely to eat it if no dry was
available! I cannot tell you how encouraging it is to me that your cat lost
5 lbs. over a year and a half!! I have a couple who could stand to lose a
good 3-4 pounds, so I'm hoping we'll finally get somewhere now that I have
learned some more things.
Thanks for your input, as well as everyone else's, too, and sorry your cats
keep getting sick!!
Kris
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Belinda" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, June 23, 2006 12:21 PM
Subject: Re: cats who don't like moist food
Buddie when she was younger would not eat anything but dry and she was
picky about which dry. She wouldn't eat chicken, beef, most any table
food. She did like bacon, and potatoe chips. When she got extremely over
weight and I had no choice but to put her on a diet, dry was out. Dry
food is the worst for cats, and I wish I could get my 2 dry food junkies
off it.
To my amazement she started eating the canned all on her own, I wasn't
putting out dry except in the evening, I guess she quickly decided she
didn't like being hungry all day and started nibbling on the wet. After a
few days of noticing her eating wet, I stopped feeding dry all together.
When she was eating good and losing weight, I stupidly starting putting
out dry for the 2 junkies, but Buddie never again ate the dry, she lost 5
pounds over a year and a half and was doing great until she got liver
cancer shortly thereafter.
I'm still trying to get the two 2 junkies (both who by the way are
overweight and the only ones who are overweight), off of the dry. Every
time I decide I'm going to get my guys on better food, somebody gets sick
with something really bad, I'm almost afraid to try again. Before Buddie
got sick I was trying to switch all to raw. Before Bailey got sick I was
trying to switch the ones who wouldn't eat raw to a better canned. And
immediately after losing Bailey, Fred comes up hyperthyroid and CRF!!
--
Belinda
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