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A few things I need to tell you first of all. One, our house has six cats; Momma, Princess, Slipper, Asia, Spot, and Ra. Second of all, before two years ago I'd never had a cat, wanted a cat, or researched cats, so my knowledge base is a little patchy and I tend to compare them to dogs, just because that's what I'm familiar with and they're both four-legged mammals. Third of all, I just switched to a new cat food.
Let me back up. Back when we had dogs (both fixed), when they reached a certain age we switched them from normal food to weight management food; not because they were getting fat (which is hard for active outside dogs to do), but because it seemed to fill them better and keep them full longer. Working on that premise I switched the cats' food to weight management the last time I needed to get more dry food (they're on a mixed dry and wet diet). Don't get me wrong; they love it--but they don't seem to get full eating it. Where they were previously going through four small bowls of dry food a day, now they're going through almost ten. It's a huge increase, and they still seem hungry all the time.
So--what am I doing wrong? Do they just like the new food, or are they really hungry all the time? I don't want them to get used to eating so much in a day and then switch back to the old food (that just seems like a recipe for disaster), so what should I do?
Let me back up. Back when we had dogs (both fixed), when they reached a certain age we switched them from normal food to weight management food; not because they were getting fat (which is hard for active outside dogs to do), but because it seemed to fill them better and keep them full longer. Working on that premise I switched the cats' food to weight management the last time I needed to get more dry food (they're on a mixed dry and wet diet). Don't get me wrong; they love it--but they don't seem to get full eating it. Where they were previously going through four small bowls of dry food a day, now they're going through almost ten. It's a huge increase, and they still seem hungry all the time.
So--what am I doing wrong? Do they just like the new food, or are they really hungry all the time? I don't want them to get used to eating so much in a day and then switch back to the old food (that just seems like a recipe for disaster), so what should I do?