What kind of foods do you feed to your flabby feline?

Ozzie (and his sister) gets dry food daily, some in the morning and some at night. I think about once a week they share a can of canned food. And any time I cook meat I give them some (and that would be about three times a week or so).

But Ozzie isn´t on a diet. The vet tells me he´s healthy

Frodo gets 3 small meals a day. He´s on mainly wet food because of bladder problems, but I give him a tiny amount of Hills prescription dry food because he prefers it.

We started giving him 3 meals when the vet suggested we put him on the dreaded diet, to try and con him into believing his food hasn´t decreased. It doesn´t work though and he still seems to be convinced he´s going to starve to death. I feel horrible because I know food is his life, but he really needs to lose weight to help prevent the cystitis recurring all the time.

He has a love of dog food and we have to keep the bags of Barney´s food locked away because he always manages to get into them and gorge himself otherwise.

I feed my 2 fatties with low calorie foods, but I am sure they eat at the neighbours as well.

Beau eats Science Diet kibble, and gets occasional treats of bites of baked chicken. He is not on a diet, as the vet has not yet felt Beau needed it.

You feed them all day long as much as they want. Keep that bowl full and that can opener going all day long. snacks are good too but only in large quanities. Never stop feeding them. Ever! The more the better! All day long!!

MR! GET OFF THAT COMPUTER,

Ignore the above. Teri (MOM)

I feed Mugger dry food all day on demand, and two tablespoons of wet food per day. Plus more when he screams for it.
--Wolfie

Wet food 2 times a day; dry food to nibble on in between and treats like temptations; some cooked food like chicken, liver, pork and steak.

Often when I eat dinner at the table Betsey will come with me and sit by the side of my chair, meow and then wait for her cooked treat. She only eats a little of it, then meows the cat version of ´thank you´ and meets me in my bedroom after dinner for a cuddle and a brushing.

Miming gets fed on demand and I´m too ashamed to count how many times that is. He also checks out everything I eat and often my food does not pass his taste/smell test. He is actually a picky eater but he demands to have the food that he likes.

Chelsea gets fed on demand by dad and never asks me for food, cos she knows he´s a sucker. She has dry food in her bowl always and she has whiskas/felix in jelly when she asks. Problem is she eats the jelly and tries to leave the meaty bits, so we have to mush it all up for her so she can´t do that! She hates cooked food of any description, and prefers meat to fish flavours!

Bonny eats only Fancy Feast as much as he wants. Shahori eats dry food and sometimes dog´s food. She also gets her food on demand.If not, I´m going to regret it..

I have put my cats on a diet (again). 2 meals a day and NO MORE. So far 1 cat fight and 1 scratch to me from Sid.

I have put my cats on a diet (again). 2 meals a day and NO MORE. So far 1 cat fight and 1 scratch to me from Sid.
That´s horrible! Only two meals a day? What about snacks? This is not the way a cat should be treated! Get a lawyer. We should have whatever we want whenever we want and the humans should be happy to give it to us and...

...Well that´s what happens when Ozzie gets to use the computer

Just following the vets orders. (He has just lost weight, so he feels sanctimonious.)

I´ve had Mugger on the food regimen I posted above - before that, he was getting almost an entire (small) can of wet food a day, plus the dry food. When I first started restricting his diet, there were LOTS of complaints from him about how I was starving him to death (not). Now he´s used to it, and has managed to lose almost a pound. I also rarely give him human food treats. Still, sometimes he complains - he has a very special meow, sounds like a kitten, that he uses when he´s in need of some extra food. He does it so rarely though that I know when I hear that "meeeeeeeeeuuuuuuuuwwwwwwwww" that he´s actually hungry and not just being a con artist.

Sidney eats in fact very little. I think he is suffering from middle age spread. He has lost weight from his back and sides, but now looks rather peculiar with his tummy dangling down.

We keep their bowls always full so my boys can eat whenever they want. And in the morning they get wet food.
Both are one kilo heavier than they should be, but it´s not a problem for them because they are very active cats.

Another cat fight about the food this morning. Oh dear, I think the diet was a bad idea.

Oldwoman, if it�s for their health then I really do support the diet. (My other post was Ozzie being silly )

Is there any way you could prevent the fights? Maybe feed them in separate rooms, or at separate times? I think large cats are wonderful, but I think healthy cats are even better

I cant stress enough---feed them alot at all times, keep it coming---add meats, snacks, feed, feed feed!! that can-opener should never be put down.

MR! FOR THE LAST TIME, GET OFF THE COMPUTER!!

Ignore again (Mom)

Clerihewed, the two fatties Sidney and Ginger are life long rivals. They were both strays on the same patch, on which my house happens to stand. They just about manage to rub along together, if I feed them on demand and keep them as separate as possible. They spend a lot of their time trying to get at each other. When they are hungry, Sidney gets more agressive and attacks everybody around him. He is more friendly towards myself, but it has taken him many years to get to that point. He now has arthritis in his back legs and needs to lose weight. It is very difficult. He does not really eat very much.

Bibi eat dry food at least twice a day. In the morning and early evening. She is a kind of palm feed cat...soo spoiled! By this way, she will eat much compare to eating on her own
But I always make sure her bowl is load up so that she can eat anytime she want.
In a year I keep changing type of dry food given to her but still in the same brand - Royal Canin. I tried formula for "hair & colour skin" sometime "hairball" or "indoor" or etc just to give flavour to her.
Just like us..we r not going to eat steak everyday, aren´t we?