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Hey everyone. My mother has 2 obese cats. Both are brothers and your basic tabby. Bother are obese, one weighs 25lbs and the other 21lbs. I measured tyem myself 2 days ago, and both are 5 year old couch potatoes who see probably 10-15 minutes a day of activity(I guess, no idea what they do when she is at work).
For the longest time she has fed them kibble in a free feeding setting, always having food out for them to eat whenever and often feeding them when they cry to make them be quiet.
Recently one had to go to the vet(the 25lb one) and the vet said he wants to see them both drop weight, ideally he wants both to weight 15lbs.
So I have set to make her whip them into shape and drop those pounds.
Issue is, I have no idea how many calories they need. Calculating people is easy, cats is a bit difficult.
I did get her a bunch of wet food for them, the blue wilderness stuff and told her I would buy the food for her as long as she feeds them properly and gets their weight down.
Like I said though, my issue is figuring how many calories to deed them, and how fast they should lose the weight.
This is why I joined up. I want these cats to have a long, healthy, happy, vet free life with her. But I need everyones help figuring out caloric intake needs.
For the longest time she has fed them kibble in a free feeding setting, always having food out for them to eat whenever and often feeding them when they cry to make them be quiet.
Recently one had to go to the vet(the 25lb one) and the vet said he wants to see them both drop weight, ideally he wants both to weight 15lbs.
So I have set to make her whip them into shape and drop those pounds.
Issue is, I have no idea how many calories they need. Calculating people is easy, cats is a bit difficult.
I did get her a bunch of wet food for them, the blue wilderness stuff and told her I would buy the food for her as long as she feeds them properly and gets their weight down.
Like I said though, my issue is figuring how many calories to deed them, and how fast they should lose the weight.
This is why I joined up. I want these cats to have a long, healthy, happy, vet free life with her. But I need everyones help figuring out caloric intake needs.