Thread: Feeding Advice

We are dealing with related problem in trying to get our big boy Remy to lose a bit of weight when there is dry food down all the time. Our girl Bella eats mainly dry, and grazes, so it must be available at least most of the time for her, plus the other two also graze. Unfortunately, Remy has a tendency to go eat dry whenever bored or when anyone else eats it, and when his fast growth quit around two years old, this resulted in a bit of excess weight. We have done two things to reduce his dry food and thus calorie intake: (1) we removed the dry food dishes from downstairs so there is less availability of dry, and (2) we have been trying to feed him more canned food. Remy spends quite a bit of time downstairs, and we had dry in three places in the house, including downstairs. Saw that he was nibbling frequently downstairs during the day. Now he has to want food enough to go seek it out upstairs (plus a bit of exercise going up the stairs). Since the canned food is nearly 80% water, it seems like a good way to make cats feel full but not really get that many calories. So far this seems to be working, but the basic issue of having one cat that eats too much dry in a multiple-cat house is certainly a very tough problem.