Hey all. I'm looking for some help figuring out what and how much I should be feeding my embarrassingly overweight cat. She's always been hefty, but at our most recent visit the vet said she's diabetes case waiting to happen. Damn.
Anyway, the vet's recommendation was to feed her two cans of Purina Rx OM each day. Two issues: 1) I'd rather feed her a better quality food and 2) this ends up being $50-$60 each month, just for the one cat. My thinking is that if I can find a better quality, but still affordable alternative wet food, I can work out the caloric equivalent and keep her on the same diet. I'm just having trouble finding all the info.
According to the Purina website, the OM comes out to 128 calories per can, so I need to give her 256 calories of whatever other food we select. Does this sound right? I know you have to be careful when helping a cat lose weight, and I want to make sure I'm not messing this up. So what's a good but affordable wet food that we could try instead? We used to use Innova, but I've heard they've had some quality control issues lately. I've heard that Felidae is good. Any thoughts on that? Or other suggestions?
If we went got the Felidae, it looks like we'd be feeding her about 7.5oz per day to get the same caloric intake. I will run this all by the vet prior to starting the diet, but wanted to get feedback here first.
Anyway, the vet's recommendation was to feed her two cans of Purina Rx OM each day. Two issues: 1) I'd rather feed her a better quality food and 2) this ends up being $50-$60 each month, just for the one cat. My thinking is that if I can find a better quality, but still affordable alternative wet food, I can work out the caloric equivalent and keep her on the same diet. I'm just having trouble finding all the info.
According to the Purina website, the OM comes out to 128 calories per can, so I need to give her 256 calories of whatever other food we select. Does this sound right? I know you have to be careful when helping a cat lose weight, and I want to make sure I'm not messing this up. So what's a good but affordable wet food that we could try instead? We used to use Innova, but I've heard they've had some quality control issues lately. I've heard that Felidae is good. Any thoughts on that? Or other suggestions?
If we went got the Felidae, it looks like we'd be feeding her about 7.5oz per day to get the same caloric intake. I will run this all by the vet prior to starting the diet, but wanted to get feedback here first.