Greeting fellow cat-enthusiasts!
Now it's actually been four weeks since Haku moved in with us in our comfy little apartment in Germany, after we adopted him from a rescue who picked him up from Bulgaria's streets. So far he's been doing good, slowly getting to know every corner of his new home and also more frequently demanding cuddles and pets. So after a months of living with us we payed the vet a visit, mostly for a general check up.
Vet said he's mostly fine, he has a light gum infection due to the lack of most teeth and gave me some medicine for that. They said if he's in pain I should come visit them or in 2 months the latest for another check-up.
They also noted that Haku is quite a chonky boy, bringing 6.6kg (~14,5 pounds) and adviced me to put him on a diet. I'm not quite sure thought, how to tackle this. I know Haku isn't particular active, spending most of the day sitting, laying or overall not moving much. He's not very interested in interactive toys like wands and such, he prefers playing with his little mouse toy, which he kicks around in the evening and chases after until he's tired. Attempts on turning this into a human-cat play session by flicking the mouse through the room has failed.
Food-wise he currently gets bozita wet food and sometimes some grain free dry food, I try to give him more wet food thought because he lacks almost all teeth. On some days he just refuses to eat his wet food until i sprinkle some of the pellets on. He also is not interested in any treats, nothing I tried has him interested. Of the bozita he eats half a tetra pack (full pack contains 370g i belive) a day, over the course of a day too, he eats slowly bit for bit, additionally a few bits of dry food.
I don't know if I should just reduce the amount, as it already seems a bit small to me, on the package it says a cat his size should actually eat a full tetra pack a day. I try offering him different brands of high quality wet food as well but he's a bit skittish some days, he might eat it but the bozita is the most reliable one, probably it's the closest texture-wise to what he got at the rescue (whiskas).
Now it's actually been four weeks since Haku moved in with us in our comfy little apartment in Germany, after we adopted him from a rescue who picked him up from Bulgaria's streets. So far he's been doing good, slowly getting to know every corner of his new home and also more frequently demanding cuddles and pets. So after a months of living with us we payed the vet a visit, mostly for a general check up.
Vet said he's mostly fine, he has a light gum infection due to the lack of most teeth and gave me some medicine for that. They said if he's in pain I should come visit them or in 2 months the latest for another check-up.
They also noted that Haku is quite a chonky boy, bringing 6.6kg (~14,5 pounds) and adviced me to put him on a diet. I'm not quite sure thought, how to tackle this. I know Haku isn't particular active, spending most of the day sitting, laying or overall not moving much. He's not very interested in interactive toys like wands and such, he prefers playing with his little mouse toy, which he kicks around in the evening and chases after until he's tired. Attempts on turning this into a human-cat play session by flicking the mouse through the room has failed.
Food-wise he currently gets bozita wet food and sometimes some grain free dry food, I try to give him more wet food thought because he lacks almost all teeth. On some days he just refuses to eat his wet food until i sprinkle some of the pellets on. He also is not interested in any treats, nothing I tried has him interested. Of the bozita he eats half a tetra pack (full pack contains 370g i belive) a day, over the course of a day too, he eats slowly bit for bit, additionally a few bits of dry food.
I don't know if I should just reduce the amount, as it already seems a bit small to me, on the package it says a cat his size should actually eat a full tetra pack a day. I try offering him different brands of high quality wet food as well but he's a bit skittish some days, he might eat it but the bozita is the most reliable one, probably it's the closest texture-wise to what he got at the rescue (whiskas).