I can sympathize with the frustration of feeding cats different meals. In the past I have always fed my cats a small amount of can food in the evening and have allowed them to have a good high quality dry food during the day. However. My husbands cat who joined our household along with my husband 2 and a half years ago just can't handle this diet. She came to us at 22 pounds of loving cat. Now she should be about 17 pounds because she is a very big girl anyway..but still..much too heavy.

Just several weeks ago we weighed her and she had gained up to 25 pounds. I talked to our vet and she feels the best thing for her is to go on the Atkins diet for kittys. Since she gained 3 more pounds in 2.5 years on lite dry food in limited quantities this just wasn't working.

So now they are all on a strictly canned food diet until we can get this weight off of Kaliban. So she gets canned, ground kitten food twice a day. It is higher in protein and cats can only convert a certain amount of protien to fat and glucose while they can convert ALL of carbohydrates.

Brianna and Katie both have very sensitive tummies for canned food and I have found the only one they can keep in their tummies is the Nutros Natural Diet. It is made by Maxx cat I beleive.

Deirdre can eat anything but since she has just a high metabolism I have her on the Purina ProPlan little 3 oz cans of food. She looks just gorgeous! She has gained back all her weight and her coat is sooooo shiny and soft. She even got back the black pigment on her paws.

And they can only eat twice a day. So they are only allowed to have the food for an hour in the morning and an hour in the evening. If they don't finish it then tough. But both Brianna and Katie have been protesting this new feeding arrangement and have refused several meals. I can't let this go on for long because I don't wish to develope liver problems. So every once in a while I have to force feed them by putting fingerfulls of food in their mouth and making them swallow. They eventually give up the stubborness and start eating on their own again.

*sigh* Feeding time has become a challenge and a chore. But on the plus side.....Kaliban is back down to 23.5 after only 3 weeks!!!! YEA!!!

Denyce