booter@lll-crg.ARpA (Elaine Richards) (10/25/85)
Well folks, now I humbly come to you for advice. My cat has taken on the dimensions of the Hindenberg. Due to a hairy schedule, I got her one of those cat silos that feeds the little monsters automatically. She did well by it for a year and suddenly *FAZOOM* mucho kitty. How does one put a cat on a diet. I trusted her for so long that I really don't know how much to give her. She eats Science Diet dry food due to a history of bladder infection. She HATES canned food and food that people eat. How many fractions of a cup should a cat get. She is small and should weigh no more than seven pounds. ^-^ I appreciate your advice, I am sure Mehitabel =.= will not. !!! ) 00 0--..........? lll-crg!booter
freeman@spar.UUCP (Jay Freeman) (10/29/85)
[This line dedicated to the obesity of the line-eater.] >Well folks, now I humbly come to you for advice. My cat has taken >on the dimensions of the Hindenberg. ... She eats Science Diet ... >How many fractions of a cup should a cat get. She is small and should >weigh no more than seven pounds. I have about seventy pounds of cats who eat "CD Dry", a similar product. I use a "regular" cat-food can -- tuna-fish-can size -- as a scoop. A grand total of two such scoops per day -- leveled off precisely -- feeds the aforementioned felines adequately. These prepared diets are very rich, and a little goes a long, long way. (My seventy pounds of cats count out at six, except when they are playing when I am trying to sleep. Then it's more like fifty of them.) -- Jay Reynolds Freeman (Schlumberger Palo Alto Research)(canonical disclaimer)