Fat cat, skinny cat

cg1975

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We have one overweight cat and one normal weight cat, and feeding them is the problem. You know the story: the normal-weight one needs to free feed to maintain her weight and the fat one needs limited feedings. The fat one, of course, eats the skinny one's food.
We have had a thousand recommendations for how to fix the problem but most of the remedies take advantage of discrepancies in their size (the fat one's too big to jump, so put the food up high, etc). But our additional problem is that the fat cat is the smaller one by nature; the skinny one is just a larger cat. People hear that and are then at a loss -- so my question is:
is this an odd situation? Does anyone else have the problem of a big skinny cat and a small fat cat or if you have the skinny/fat problem is your fat one bigger and your skinny one smaller?
 

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I am having a similar problem here. My Osiris is very overweight, but most of my others are normal weights and with the amount of cats I have, I can't put him on a diet without putting the rest on a diet.
Azizi is STARTING to become overweight as well. I'm trying to get them to exercise as much as possible with toys and am hoping this will help.
 

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I'd love to hear any ideas that anyone else has as well.

Sneaky Pie is going to be 9, and has had a weight problem forever. It was easier the last few months b/c she was an "only" and I didn't have to worry about her getting into the other cat's food.

Then 2 weeks ago we adopted HollyHeart- she's 14 weeks old. And is tiny. And eats Kitten Chow. So now we have the problem of the overweight cat getting into the Kitten Chow. I was giving her IAMS weight control, but I saw no difference at all AND HollyHeart was deciding to eat that food (and she doesn't need calorie control) so I switched her to an adult formula. Sneaky that is. HollyHeart is still eating Kitten Chow.

The two of them chase each other around the house a lot. And that's more exercise than Sneaky's had in years
So I'm hoping that maybe she'll lose a few pounds by interacting with her new "friend".

Cheryl
 

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Timed feedings is the only solution and feed separatly durin them. I have a 9 month old a 3 year old who is at perfect weight but can gain quickly and a 2 year old who struggles to maintain. I feed 3 meals a day all stages grain free dry one meal and wet all other meals. I separate the kitten and the two others eat on opposites sides of the room and I make sure they keep to their own bowls.

Leslie
 
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