My fat cat, how do you put a cat on a diet?

@plebian_angel Said

I have a fat cat too. I have no idea. I have two cats. One skinny and one fat. It's not like I can cut food back without punishing the skinny one.

@Dark_Tink Said

Does your cat have a constant source of food or do you get it certain amounts throughout the day? (0.6 and 1.0 ounce of food per meal for a seven-pound cat..two to four times a day)

Does it get human food? Cats have no carbohydrate-digesting enzyme called Amylase in their saliva.

Get a lazer pointer to get the cat chasing after the red dot. Most cats LOVE it.

@Sebastian Said

@DiscordTiger Said

Try exercising her, using the laser pointer or a string or even a cat dancer, anything that she will play with.

Its hard though, our TC was a little chunky for a while, so it was slow going on cutting his food down. He too would try the begging to get food out of other people thinking they "forgot" we finally just decided that, only one of us fed the cats, unless we were able to talk about it. But he would beg for a can or two a food day if he could. I think he developed "food issues", when he was abandoned before we got him.

@Sebastian Said

My cat is quite large, and I tried buying that low-fat food, rationing his servings, etc...

But after 4 weeks he had actually gained a pound. The vet couldn't figure it out, and neither could I until a few days later. My kids were sitting in the living room watching cartoons and eating...and there was the cat, getting hand-fed enough junk food to change the famine problems in most of Africa! I gave up after that....

@Sebastian Said

My cat is quite large, and I tried buying that low-fat food, rationing his servings, etc...

But after 4 weeks he had actually gained a pound. The vet couldn't figure it out, and neither could I until a few days later. My kids were sitting in the living room watching cartoons and eating...and there was the cat, getting hand-fed enough junk food to change the famine problems in most of Africa! I gave up after that....