Any tips to keep our 10 month old Kitten from eating our 9 year old Cat’s Hill’s Prescription RD Diet food.

We just adopted her from the Humane Society, and they sent her home with Science Diet Adult. She is going for her first checkup with our vet on Friday, and I really don’t think it’s that big of a deal.
We have their food in seperate rooms, and we only fill her bowl when it’s time to feed her. She will eat a few bites and then will go and eat the 9 year olds RD (prescription weight loss- we measure out his food in the morning, and he just grazes thru the day).
Ofcourse our adult cat loves the kitten’s food (he is 17lbs to her 6 lbs and her food is much more fatty), so we then have to pickup her food bowl so he won’t eat it.
Hmmm… Why would our vet give our adult cat Prescription RD if it’s so horrible?

Because vets do not recieve specialized feline nutritional training while in School. Vet schools allow the pet food industry to control what vets learn. Most vets get a one hour lecture on BOVINE, yes COW, nutrition during school. There are no focused classes about the special diet that the planets only obligate CARNIVORE, yes… MEAT eating cat, needs.

The best thing you can do is feed both cats a canned diet. Dry food in inappropriate for your cat and the complete reason your older cat is fat in the first place.

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

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.

In the wild, 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. So they do not drink water. Regular ol’ house cats have descended from those same wild 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.

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