Off the juice 35 days - now what??

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Mary and Peanut

Mary and Peanut

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Peanut was diagnosed in Aug 2015 and is off the juice for 35 days. I want to know if I need to keep his feeding times to 12 hours apart. I have 3 cats and switched them all to canned food and the 12 hour schedule when Peanut was diagnosed just to keep things easy. It would be so much easier to feed in the morning and when I come home from work.

Also, one of my cats (Oliver) is just a little over a year and very active. I've been feeding him one can of Friskies Pate a day, but he's acting like he's starving, stealing food from us and growling when we take it back. I have increased his food to 1 1/2 cans, but he still seems hungry. The other cat, Little Girl, is an indoor/outdoor cat and is very active. I always left dry food out all day before Peanut's diagnosis and I never noticed any of them eating that much, well except Peanut who got up to a hefty 18 lbs (he's lost weight and looks very good). Now, all three gulp their food down as fast as they can. Is it because of the lowered carbs? Should I feed the two active cats more food?
 
I think that as long as you stick with same food you've been feeding, you can relax your feed schedule. Goof went OTJ last May, he gets fed 3- times day now. I still test him periodically, and he's has 3 injections is .50 since May.
 
I agree...I'd just weigh them (a bathroom scale will do..weigh yourself, then pick up the cat and do the math) and feed them when it's convenient for you and gradually add food to the more active cat's diet

If they start to gain unwanted weight, you'll know you've fed about as much as you can afford to!

Another tip is to add water to their wet food....it helps to "fill them up"....add enough to make a "gravy" but not so much that they refuse to eat it anymore
 
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