Can't find my other posts on this. If you read any of them I was pretty disgusted with the cat I adopted. She was biting me, demanding hours of play, following me to the kitchen, & jumping into my plate of food. Got the biting & play resolved but had to lock her up to eat myself & even to give her food. She would grab her dish before I could get it to the floor & spill the food all over. I took her to the vet two days after I got her & was told that she could not gain weight & should be fed no more than 225 cal per day.
A week ago I called the original shelter where she came from to get more information. They said she was starving & extremely under weight when she came in. I guess that explains why she was digging in the garbage disposal for a crumb of food. My friend,with a lot of cat experience, told me to give her whatever she wants whenever she wants it & to leave food out when I leave. This is supposed to convince her that there will always be food for her. My tiny cat ate 12 oz of food at one sitting last night.
Today we had about as much as well as 1 oz of raw. Really liked the raw but I am just starting with this,. She is now acting like a normal cat but I can actually see the lump of food in her body. Has anyone else had a cat that had been starved & what did you do? She is very contented & has become, if you can believe, picky. I am just afraid that after a few weeks I will have a 20 lb cat. Before I was feeding her a 5.5 oz of Instinct everyday which was about 225 cal. This is supposed to be enough for a 7 lb cat but she would eat her food in less than 1 minute.
A week ago I called the original shelter where she came from to get more information. They said she was starving & extremely under weight when she came in. I guess that explains why she was digging in the garbage disposal for a crumb of food. My friend,with a lot of cat experience, told me to give her whatever she wants whenever she wants it & to leave food out when I leave. This is supposed to convince her that there will always be food for her. My tiny cat ate 12 oz of food at one sitting last night.
Today we had about as much as well as 1 oz of raw. Really liked the raw but I am just starting with this,. She is now acting like a normal cat but I can actually see the lump of food in her body. Has anyone else had a cat that had been starved & what did you do? She is very contented & has become, if you can believe, picky. I am just afraid that after a few weeks I will have a 20 lb cat. Before I was feeding her a 5.5 oz of Instinct everyday which was about 225 cal. This is supposed to be enough for a 7 lb cat but she would eat her food in less than 1 minute.
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