do I have to give my cat a soft meal?

I have two cats, one cat (moon) is wet food daft! But i have managed to cut her down to 1 sachet of wet food a day from 4 sachets.... i find she is losing weight because of this which isn't a bad thing as she was a chubby little thing.

I dont feel you need to give a cat wet food as long as you can provide it complete dry food. When you try to wean him off the wet food he will complain for a good few days, but then he will forget about and won't ask for it again... (normally anyways)

Good luck!!

Miaow!!

xx

Actually, if he's overweight, wet food is recommended to help lose wight since it has more protein and less fillers. Dry food is predominantly carbs, corn, rice, and other fillers, which can make your cat a bit porkier!

I feed mine mostly wet food, and then give them dry food to help with their teeth. If he only licks the gravy, perhaps try a better brans, like Spot's Stew or Blue Buffalo, which my cats eat with gusto! If you can't afford holistic brands, I give my cats Fancy Feast, it's not nearly as healthy but to my cats it's like junk food, they can't get enough!

Cats often like the 'moisture' of wet food but not the texture. Something you could try though if the cat is wanting more flavorful food is pouring low sodium chicken broth over their dry food and see if they like that.

He needs the soft meal. and if he's over weight you have got to take away the dry to slim him down.

Cats were never meant to eat dry food, also known as cereals or kibble. We, humans, make them eat it for convenience to us. It has nothing to do with them or their nutritional needs. It's completely species inappropriate.

All small domestic cats descended from desert cats. In the wild, desert cats derive their entire liquid intake from their prey. They do not have a thirst mechanism because they don't need it when eating a species appropriate diet. They get all they need from what they eat. Additionally water was usually not available to them in their desert climate. So they do not often drink water. Regular ol' house cats have descended from those same wild desert cats.

So in a home environment, your kitty does not get the moisture it needs from dry food and it’s almost always in a constant state of dehydration. Water fountains are encouraged to TRY to get your cat to drink more and your kitty may even enjoy it, but it will never meet its water intake needs drinking from a bowl.

Deadly feline illnesses such as diabetes, kidney failure, obesity, allergies, Irritable Bowel Disease (IBD), bladder stones, kidney stones, urinary tract blockages and Urinary Tract Infections (FLUTD), with and without deadly crystals run rampant these days. Cats are not taking in enough water to stave them off. Proper water intake through a species appropriate diet alone can prevent most of these conditions.

Overall, wet is all around better for any cats diet, be it canned or Raw and they should never be fed dry cereal kibble if we wish to most closely match their wild nutritional and dietary needs. Kibble meets our needs… not our cats.

There is NO such thing as dry "diet" food for cats. Dry foods are filled with carbs that make your cat fat. You can't make a dry food without carbs, so there are no dry diet foods.

The proper amount to feed per cat/per day should be about 5.5 ounces of wet (high quality grain free canned or Raw Meat/Bones/Organ) food.

The calories in that amount of food are sufficient for most "normal" sized cats. Of course a highly energetic cat will need more food to keep it healthy, and a lazy cat will need less food to keep it from getting obese. But 5.5 ounces of wet food per day is a good place to start.

Here is a fantastic site that will help you help your cat lose weight!

http://www.catinfo.org/feline_obesity.htm

not as long as you give him a hard beating!