If you are feeding your cats nothing but canned food it would be a good idea to give them 1/2 a chicken wing or a chicken neck every now and then to prevent tooth and gum disease. Even if they are on dry food. You might need to chop it up for them at first but a cat with healthy teeth and gums should be able to get through a chicken wing with no problem. You might also need to put it under a grill just for a little bit to get the juices flowing and smelling nice for your cat especially if they've never had them before. But once they've had a few, they will love them and their teeth will be so much healthier.

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thanksss...
Kabin

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Oh my gosh!!! 45%!!! that is way to much. I alway's worried about the skinny cats-i never payed attention to the fat ones. But now i do!!!

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i feed my cats only wet cat food, even the cheaper wet cat food is better than dry, puts weight on them and i once fed dry and my kitty developed crystals and that was caused by the dry food which my vet had told me to feed! well once he developed crystals my vet told me to feed only wet and since then he has been fine and silky coat, my other cat has a flaky coat which i have just started giving salmon and omega 3's more often

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I have a 5 year old fat cat and I too wonder how she can be that overweight with the portions I am feeding her - 1/2 of a small can of wetfood in the am and 1/3 cup of dryfood both in am & pm. She also developed a flaky skin condition which the vets could not properly diagnose even after performing various tests & biopsy. Reading all these comments I am thinking now it maybe the dryfood. Any other suggestions?

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If you want the best for your kitties, GET THEM OFF THE DRY CAT FOOD.
My kitty Lily (15 years old) was diagnosed with diabetes on July 8, 2008, with a blood sugar of 666. She was mildly overweight and she had been on a 99% dry cat food diet (usually Iams, but sometimes other brand names). She was started on insulin twice a day. Initially I just fed her the Purina DM (diabetic) dry food but after doing research I switched her (and my other 4 cats) to ONLY wet cat food. My vet (who only takes care of cats) did not counsel me at all about her diet. I started home glucose testing (earlobe) and it confirmed what the vet found. But over the weeks, the blood sugar steadily kept dropping. I gradually decreased the insulin dose, and I weaned her off the insulin by September 21. Her blood sugars have been normal ever since. I will never go back to dry food -- my new philosophy is: almost any canned food is better than dry food!! However, if you're going to make a big change in the diet of a diabetic cat and the cat is on insulin, then you need to frequently check the blood sugar. The change was very dramatic in my kitty, and you want to catch low blood sugars early. I also think the Wellness brand of canned cat food is great! It is high quality, non-grain, and you can get it in 12.5 oz cans which are relatively inexpensive compared to some other high quality canned foods. If you can’t afford that, switch to canned Friskies or other less expensive brands. You’ll save

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I had to start feeding my cats dry food because of cost - they ballooned up within a few weeks. When I went back to feeding them high-quality canned food (as much as they wanted), they eventually lost it all, but it took about two years.

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Many years ago when my now seventeen year old cat was about seven, she developed a severe case of dia-
rrhea caused by her food. She ate Purina Cat Chow at
that time and looked like she had swallowed a tennis ball
before the problems began. Even the vet recommended
Purina CMN the problems continued. Eukanuba didn't
help and Iams slowed it down a little bit. I finally
settled on Wysong Vitality dry and it stopped and she
lost her"tennis ball". She now eats canned Wellness
and the problem hasn't returned. They make "grain
free" varieties also. I would never feed a cat "senior"
cat food, I just don't think it has enough protein and
other nutrients. I personally stay away for Hills
Science Diet brands, it's full of grains, chemicals, dyes, preservatives and is overpriced, in my opinion,
for what you're getting. I had a cat many years ago
who was supposed to eat HSD Feline KD and he
would do about anything to eat the other cats normal
food. I would find him eating the other cats hair
that they had shed. I personally thing it starved him
of the necessary nutrients he needed.

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I have a fat cat! And three normal to slightly overweight cats as well. We are low-income and I feed grocery store dry food. We feed twice a day, only a cup of food for all four to share. Sometimes I don't understand how the cats can keep this weight on this amount of food. They are indoor only cats, from 3 to 8 years old, with the fat one being the oldest. How do I feed her something totally differently? Food can not be left out as they eat it immediately.

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I have a 15-year-old cat who has developed kidney disease. I've been working with the vet to help mitigate the cat's resulting problems. I saw a TV show during which a well-respected vet (who's name I cannot recall now) talked about how cats are natural carnivores, and do not deal with grains very well at all. So, like Colleen, I changed Mac to an organic canned food. Mac's been losing weight fairly rapidly over the past year, and interestingly, now that he's eating this new food that contains no grains or meat "byproducts" whatever that may be), he's actually putting some weight back on; not all that much, but enough to make it significant to me. He doesn't seem to be urinating quite as much as he used to, and honestly, the cat is much more active and playful, running around the house and sometimes behaving like a kitten! I'm astounded by the rapid change.

We see the vet on Monday, and I'm expecting him to disagree with my having discontinued the Rx food. But I think that even if I'm shortening Mac's life by a a few months or even a year, it's better for him to like what he eats and to get the benefits of organic food. We'll see!

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