I just don't get it. I have three cats, two of whom are overweight adults. Our former vet always recommended feeding them light dry food from the time they were kittens as they started looking pudgy from about 1 year old. They have been a strict r/d diet for years with controlled portions (1/2 cup per cat per day), and continued to gain weight steadily throughout their whole lives (4.5 years). No one ever mentioned to me that this could be from the very high-carb food they were eating. In fact, I had been told in the past that feeding a cat wet food was like feeding your child twinkies.
I have spent so much time tearing my hair out not knowing what to do about their weight gain - I don't want to starve them after all! Plus, these are cats with each other and a baby sister to play with, with many cat toys and numerous very tall cat trees and scratching posts, etc so it's not like they're bored and have no opportunity to exercise.
Anyway, I have just switched them to a "Catkins" diet using Wellness, grain-free wet food, so hopefully they can get down to healthy weights.
It just really burns me up that I have paid so much money taking my cats to very expensive, high-end veterinarians, and the only way I found out about this approach to feline weight loss was through hours of my own internet research. Are these vets just uninformed? Are they being paid by the Hills folks to shill Prescription Diet foods? I repeatedly expressed my confusion at Oscar and Molly's weight gain despite their strict r/d diet for YEARS. It almost feels to me like this has been kept a secret or something. Or am I just being too conspiratorial here?
I have spent so much time tearing my hair out not knowing what to do about their weight gain - I don't want to starve them after all! Plus, these are cats with each other and a baby sister to play with, with many cat toys and numerous very tall cat trees and scratching posts, etc so it's not like they're bored and have no opportunity to exercise.
Anyway, I have just switched them to a "Catkins" diet using Wellness, grain-free wet food, so hopefully they can get down to healthy weights.
It just really burns me up that I have paid so much money taking my cats to very expensive, high-end veterinarians, and the only way I found out about this approach to feline weight loss was through hours of my own internet research. Are these vets just uninformed? Are they being paid by the Hills folks to shill Prescription Diet foods? I repeatedly expressed my confusion at Oscar and Molly's weight gain despite their strict r/d diet for YEARS. It almost feels to me like this has been kept a secret or something. Or am I just being too conspiratorial here?