Diet for cats?

Thanks i have tried to exersise him and it kinda works but he just needs to get into a routine. i will try out thos little food puzzle toys or something they sound like a good idea!
xx

Hi Tabs,

It is very difficult to diet a cat, especially when there are others in the house as well! I think the suggestions Sarah and Christine have given you are excellent and you should definitely try them. There are now several brands of food on the market which are designed to aid weight loss in cats and sometimes it can be easier to feed all the cats on this, rather than trying to restrict it to just one. It won´t do a slimmer cat any harm to eat a lower fat diet but can be very good for the fatter one! Also, making them work for their food can be an excellent way of making them burn calories and is often particularly effective in more food obsessed cats. Use a treat ball or puzzle toy filled with their normal daily ration.

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thanks all theses tips must write them down somewhere lol!

tabs our trortsky is quite a large cat but i cant say hes fat he does charge around a lot like an idiot but wealso play with himthis does keep the weight down but ufortunatelly you end up with a muscular cat like he.at meals i have all sort and eat in arow each knows which is there bowl and when done they will leave bt humbug and dizzt do try and sneak in to pinch as to which i shew them out so they get the message when done thats it and for the mosrt part this works dont know if that is any help.xx

he does hunt quite a lot but not as much as he used to. We get a few toys but the pup soon finds them and tears them to shreds. thanks for the tips i´ll be sure to try them out!

i have a fatty cat that does this too, not helped by the fact that coco (the non-fatty) eats slowly and a little at a time. the only thing we find we can do is stand nearby coco while she eats and when she has finished what she wants we pick the bowl up. we then re-offer it to her a short while later, again staying with her so that kenny (fatty) can´t eat any. we do leave biscuits out (the low-calorie kind) all day and he grazes on those. at first we were worried he´d just eat all of them at once but once he realised they were there all the time he just ate a small amount. we find that feeding them in different areas helps and also having more than one bowl of biscuits down so that he goes and searches for them helps. you could try making toys to encourage him to "hunt" for his food. a very easy one is to make a pyramid of toilet roll tubes stuck together (with the tubes lying flat rather than upright) and then putting a dry biscuit in a few of the tubes, your cat then has to work out and work at getting the biscuit out with his paw. you can also by "treat balls" which you can put a few dry biscuits in that he knocks about and they pop out, this again encourages him to work for his food and also gives him some exercise.
if he doesn´t like going out then you should add a few sessions of play time in to your daily routine, playing with balls and dangly toys to encourage him to run around and jump etc. 5 - 10 mins of this a few times a day will not only help him lose weight but will also increase the bond between you and him.