Diana,

My Lilly always had a weight issue, and when we determined that her hips were giving her problems, getting up and down, we knew we had to get some weight off of her. Lilly, at her heaviest, was 98 pounds. I was able to get about 10 pounds off of her, with more exercise, and switching to the IAMS weight management food. But she and Honey lost interest in that food. Late, last year, knowing that she (Lilly) needed to lose more weight, I switched them to California Natural Reduced Calorie Lamb and Rice (dry food). Both girls lost weight and Lilly got down to 75 pounds, which was exactly where I wanted her to be. Honey is still eating that food, now, and I am considering switching Mack over to it, as well, since he will be a year old, next week. He seems to prefer Honey's food over his own puppy food, anyway! LOL!!

Our local feed and seed store orders the California Natural food for me. The large pet stores (Petsmart and Petco) don't offer it. But there are retailers that do stock it, normally. I have also switched Butter (cat) over to the California Natural Chicken and Rice food.

You can research the California Natural foods at www.naturapet.com . Natura also provides the Innova line of natural foods.

Good luck! Like humans, pets have the same issues of trying to reduce their weight!

By the way, I do have to try to entice Honey to eat, at times, unlike her "sister", Lilly, who would eat anything, anytime, when she was living. I add a little bit of Bil Jac fresh food (bought frozen), to get her to eat.

Logan