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offbeatmama

I saw in the vet recommended food post below that you have a guide to see about calories for weight loss. Do you think there's anyway I could get you to look it up for my kitty or point me to a resource I could use to do it myself? My cat is 14 lbs and her ideal weight is around 11 lbs. I feed her Chicken Soup for the Cat Lover's Soul but I'm going to pick up some high quality fish free wet food for her today. I'm just wondering how much to feed (which I don't really know since I don't know how many calories she should be getting).

Harlows*Secret

It's at work.  I work at an animal hospital and unfortunately it's in my Hill's product guide.  It's not Hill's product specific, just a calorie guide for animals.  And I can't find that part of the guide online   I will be back in the office on Monday but in the mean time, what I need to know is the calories per can in the food you picked up today.  Also, if you could, find out how many grams of protein are in 100 k/cals.  You usually have to call the company for this info.  For the Chicken Soup, do you feed the adult or light formula?  What ratio of dry/wet do you want to be feeding?  I feed Chicken Soup too but to get her protein up for weight loss, I have a mixture of 2/3 Chicken Soup and 1/3 some kind of grain-free (I alternate between Core, NB Alpha and Fromm etc.)  My cat is on 212 calories a day and that's with an ideal weight of 13# (she's a ragdoll, so she is a bigger breed).  Let me know the answers to the above questions and I will calclate it out for you.  Have a great weekend

offbeatmama

Thank you! I'll give them a call to find out the protein content. I'm using the lite adult formula. I had been feeding her Wellness but just switched. They're mixed 50/50 right now since I didn't want to shake things up too much by switching quickly though she greatly prefers the Chicken Soup.

I'm not sure about the ratio of wet to dry. I actually just got wet food for the first time. She doesn't seem to want much wet food at a time - only about a teaspoon. I'll check back once I get the protein info.

 

Wet food = 148 kcal/can

Dry food = 302 kcal/cup

offbeatmama

I finally got it!

10.2 grams of protein are in 100 k/cals for the dry lite formula

11.1 grams of protein are in 100 k/cals for the wet lite formula