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| Topic Started: Feb 21 2016, 07:33 AM (611 Views) | |
| Deleted User | Feb 21 2016, 07:33 AM Post #1 |
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Because I rescued these girls, it is hard to figure out what to feed them. They have wasted so much because they stick their little noses up so often. I tried expensive stuff and cheap stuff and finally I have given in and am feeding them fancy feast. I even tried making nice dinners from chicken, liver, giblets, etc...and they wouldn't even touch it. They hate people food. They eat 4 cans per day. I think that is a lot, but one of my cats is very very big, probably close to 50 lbs...at least 40 anyway. The other one weighs about 2 lbs, laugh123 How much should the average cat eat per day? |
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| Trotsky | Feb 21 2016, 12:10 PM Post #2 |
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Less than enough to generate a 40 pound cat. |
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| goldengal | Feb 21 2016, 12:24 PM Post #3 |
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I cannot imagine a cat that size at all. While it has been 20 years since I have had cats, ours were never over weight. You have to be able to feel their ribs with a thin layer of fat over much the same as dogs to have a healthy pet. There are diet foods for cats the same as dogs and perhaps some who have pets currently know of the better ones. Take care, Pat |
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| FuzzyO | Feb 21 2016, 12:37 PM Post #4 |
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Read what the can says and feed slightly less. Google your question, you will find lots of answers. A 50 lb cat will soon be a dead cat. 8 - 12lb is average weight, depending on breed and size. |
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| Deleted User | Feb 21 2016, 12:38 PM Post #5 |
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This is how I received them, one fat and one skinny. I was shocked as she is bigger than all the dogs in the neighbourhood and I can hardly lift her. She is not too friendly and doesn't want to be picked up, so eventually she will let me and then I will post a picture of her. You won't believe it. People come to my door that I don't even know and ask if they can see my cat. They heard about her. I have a lazy boy chair and she takes up all the room on it. laugh12 She is still eating, I just got the measuring tape and measured just across her back (not all the way around) and she is 14 inches across her back.That is 2 inches wider than a foot on the measuring tape. She has long legs too. |
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| Deleted User | Feb 21 2016, 12:39 PM Post #6 |
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This is how I received them, one fat and one skinny. I was shocked as she is bigger than all the dogs in the neighbourhood and I can hardly lift her. She is not too friendly and doesn't want to be picked up, so eventually she will let me and then I will post a picture of her. You won't believe it. People come to my door that I don't even know and ask if they can see my cat. They heard about her. I have a lazy boy chair and she takes up all the room on it. laugh12 She is still eating, I just got the measuring tape and measured just across her back (not all the way around) and she is 14 inches across her back.That is 2 inches wider than a foot on the measuring tape. She has long legs too. |
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| Deleted User | Feb 21 2016, 12:41 PM Post #7 |
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Oh, I forgot, that would include her long hair. She is a ragdoll and has long long hair. So she wouldn't be 14 inches....probably only about 11 inches. |
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| Deleted User | Feb 21 2016, 12:48 PM Post #8 |
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My big cat is as big as this one and the exact same coloring. Maybe mine is slightly bigger. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swTglKUB52A watch when she picks her up. That is what I go through when I pick up my big girl. |
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| Deleted User | Feb 21 2016, 02:32 PM Post #9 |
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Goodness me, Mouse, your kitty is humongous, if she is almost the size of the one in the video. My male kitty is a long haired domestic and weighs about 20 pounds. I have him on PetValu weight control dry food and about 1/2 to 1 small can of wet food per day. Good luck with your kitty's weight loss. 1sm088doubleup.gif |
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| Trotsky | Feb 22 2016, 01:41 AM Post #10 |
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Mouse, I have figured out your cat: Posted Image I think most cat fanciers recommend feeding Wildebeast and Zebra. My longhairs topped out at about 14 pounds at their fattest. Each got about a quarter can (tuna can size) of canned food in the morning, they split a baggie of MOIST food (in the foil packet) in the evening and all day had an open bowl of "crunchies," aka kibble, Purina Cat Chow or Meow Mix whenever they wanted it. When we went away for a long weekend we left a couple boxes of moist food on the table. They would open the box, take out a foil pack, tear it open and have a feast. They were good about eating it all because all we found were the foil packs hither and thither. They were fond of drinking from the toilet and the fish tank. Seriously mouse, you need to put Dumbo on a diet big-time. Why not get a vet's recommendation on something extra high fiber? Fancy Feast is like spending $4 for a cup of coffee at Starbucks...fine for those who have no concept of money. (Very fat cat who doesn't want to eat: problem has solved itself, right?) Edited by Trotsky, Feb 22 2016, 04:17 AM.
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| Deleted User | Feb 22 2016, 02:36 AM Post #11 |
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Thanks everyone. the trouble is, I got these girls from a place they were kept in cages all their life and used only for making babies. She said their babies sold for $1,200.00. they were heading for the electric chair. I have no idea of their real age because I was scammed and told they were healthy. they are not young cats and certainly are not healthy. from the time I got them I have been fighting upper respirtory infection, possibly kennel cough, vomiting, and infected with ear mites so far in to their system I was cleaning them out of their other areas, like eyes, chin, etc. They were a big mess and I worked hard every day working on the problems. Searching the internet for answers and try different things. I only adopted them as I was told they were healthy, but when I got them I couldn't send them back to that horrible place, so I set out to heal them. It took months and getting antibiotics from across the boarder. I am still working on a few things, but they are so much better now and happy, playing and I am so proud of how sweet they are. The big one only has one fang as the other one got broken trying to get out the cage. It would have cost me thousands to take them to the vet. I wouldn't spend that kind of money on old cats that were ready to die anyway.....so I did it myself. I did check some prices and I nearly fainted as the cost the vets charge today. I tried to get them to eat diet food and they won't do it. I just was curious about how much food the average cat gets served per day so I could compare <Oooops, the big one wants the lazy boy chair, I have to move now> |
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| blizzard | Feb 22 2016, 03:23 AM Post #12 |
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Rag doll cats do tend to be bigger, therefore heavier, than most domestic cats. Not that I have ever heard of a 40 - 50 pound cat. I would love to see a photo some time. It is wonderful you took the two into your home, I expect they are thriving on all the care and attention you are provide. Do they go outside? My sister has had three rag dolls, all indoor cats, the latest came to her through a shelter in Winnpeg, he is huge! Possibly larger than any kitty we have ever had in the family. She does keep the cats on a strict diet. More expensive and it took some time to find a food the female would eat but the pet food store she goes to takes back cans not used. Can you consider going to a higher grade food? My D has one cat who was always an outdoor cat until the extremely cold winter of 2014 in ON. He is not a rag doll but is quite portly. The vet said he had to lose weight, my D resisted trying to explain that this wintering couch potato kitty has always been big, even when the weather is wonderful - if he gets hungry when outdoors he hunts for his food, on top of what he is fed at home. Only being outdoors is what keeps his weight where it is versus slimming. My cat weights under ten pounds, always has. He is an immigrant cat from China. Many cats there are quite small when compared to the domestic cats in NA. He only eats dry food - special formula for urinary tract issues. (He has been know to go into near death's door whenever I go away) |
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| FuzzyO | Feb 22 2016, 03:44 AM Post #13 |
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Blizzard do you leave him an unwashed sweater or shirt of yours when you go away? It helps a bit. |
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| Trotsky | Feb 22 2016, 04:30 AM Post #14 |
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Mouse, I understand. I got a Persian from the garbage room, I named her Fleur (after Susan Hampshire in Forsyte Saga.) Beautiful gray cat but, OH, the work. SHe must have had a tablespoon of mites in each ear. Took many applications of miticide (by me.) She was filled with worms...getting big pills down her that smelled like gasoline was no fun...we both hated it. Then I found she was pregnant. She cared for the first baby but it was born dead and unrevivable. Then she strolled around the apartment dropping 6 more corpses as she walked, never even looking back. THen she forgot how to wipe her ass so every day I had to spray her keyster in the tub amid chaotic caterwalling and screaming. My older cat despised her and attacked her several times. I could take no more, so after about 2 years of this, I made Bob take her in a nice carrying case and a box of Cat Chow and drop her in a popular park. She was beautiful so someone snapped her right up. I hated to do that, but I didn't wasn't to kill her, and I could not bear the thought of even one more battle in the bathtub. Like a bad marriage, you have to draw the line somewhere. If a cat could be said to be profoundly retarded, I would say that Fleur qualified. A big lesson: female cats are very territorial and will not accept another unless raised together from kittenhood. Edited by Trotsky, Feb 22 2016, 04:31 AM.
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| FuzzyO | Feb 22 2016, 04:40 AM Post #15 |
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Not necessarily so. It partly depends on how you introduce them, but it also works better to have a newcomer who is of the opposite sex. |
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