Originally Posted by
Sixty Fiver
The Tunderkitten has lost a lot of weight over the past 7 years... she was rather obese and with a controlled diet that included raw and dry food she was at a healthy weight before the thyroid issues manifested.
Her food intake during this had to be increased and her energy level is really good for a grumpy old cat.. a big mistake that many people make is allowing their cat to eat any carbs as they are obligate carnivores and carbs mess them up really badly.
Tunderkitten- Great nickname!
Yeah-most cheaper dry cat food-very high in carbs-frequently corn(cheapest)-
cats obviously didn't evolve eating a high cereal diet with very little moisture.
The reason most folks use dry food-COST
For quite a while we were near broke-but had 4 cats
The cats-just arrived in neighborhood-3 of them as kittens 4 weeks old-so we couldn't just leave them on the street-so in they came
We are less broke-so they have been upgraded-their favorite is human canned tuna-cat canned tuna-to nasty for words