Choice of 3 diet cat foods

**tomkatzid** · 09-07-2009, 02:32 PM

We now own (as of April) a FAT cat, 17.5 lbs. She is 3 yrs old, at 1 yr she was 9 lbs. Vet said feed DM or MD, one is Hills 1/3 X 2 and one is Purina 1/3 X 2. We now feed Iams diet, 1/4 X 2. Anyone feeding either of these? They are carried by the vet, so I'm sure there are other good diet foods out there not carried by our vet. Pandee is indoor only and does not run around much. We have her food on a table, so she needs to jump up and she has to jump over baby gates to get to the food room. Other than that she looks out the window at the birds !! Our cat before her, Kelcee was only 6 lbs, so she is an arm full compared to her.
We want to feed dry only, knowing weight loss by canned is faster. But we need to keep her on dry only.
Thanks in advance for your input.
Katz

**Catty1** · 09-07-2009, 06:01 PM

I use grain-free food. Even a vet at my clinic said that was fantastic...I said maybe one day vet pet food would be grain free?

She said, "I only wish!"

Vet food has a lot of starchy fillers...I'd go with a grain free like Innova Evo. Check around at a few pet stores - there are others, like Blue Buffalo (I think).

Why do you need to keep her on dry food? Just wondering if your vet said that, that's all.

**kb2yjx** · 09-07-2009, 06:08 PM

I have to agree with Catty1. Our Hope Simone has eaten EVO canned food since she was six months old. Hope is one very lean kitty machine!!!! AND it is very good good!!!

**tomkatzid** · 09-07-2009, 06:46 PM

We want to feed her only dry, the vet said canned would make her loose weight faster. If she is going to loose at all. But canned does not fit in with our time frame for working ect... I will check into grain free diet foods next time we are at the pet store. Hills was my last choice of those two, but Iams isn't any better, it's just what she grew up on. I will do a search on line and see what I come up with too.
Thanks for you info, Katz.

**kb2yjx** · 09-07-2009, 06:52 PM

Merrick makes BG(Before Grain). My allergy boy eats the canned and dry. Your vet is very correct. The dry food adds on the carbs and that is why the cat gains weight. Perhaps you need to re evaluate your schedule. We feed 8 cats before we leave for work....If you have only one cat it should be easy to do. Good luck...

**tomkatzid** · 09-07-2009, 07:57 PM

It would be nice if we could re evaluate our schedules but we can't so that is why we are looking for dry diet food. Something other than Iams. We just can't do canned, there is no way. So the vet said use dry and one of the two mentioned, but I like the idea of grain free. I've been looking on the internet and found most grain free dry foods are not diet so they are about 100 calories per cup more. So back to searching for dry diet.
Thanks again, Katz

Originally Posted by kb2yjx

Merrick makes BG(Before Grain). My allergy boy eats the canned and dry. Your vet is very correct. The dry food adds on the carbs and that is why the cat gains weight. Perhaps you need to re evaluate your schedule. We feed 8 cats before we leave for work....If you have only one cat it should be easy to do. Good luck...