The first step in deciding whether your cat is overweight is to know what a cat at his ideal body weight looks like. Compare your cat’s figure to the following chart to find out whether your cat is overweight, underweight or at a perfect weight.
Provided courtesy of Nestle Purina company
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May 16th, 2010 at 10:44 am
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August 8th, 2010 at 6:53 pm
Amazing, I found your site on google poking around for something completely unrelated- now I’m gonna need to go the old posts. Good bye free time today, but this was a really spectacular find.
August 31st, 2010 at 7:17 pm
[...] ANSWERS: There is a vet's site http://catinfo.org/ that has a lot of info on cat nutrition and in the main article there is something about how many calories the average cat should eat: it ranges between 150-250 kcal/ day . But it varies by their age, structure, activity level, metabolism etc. The bags of food might say how many calories are in a cup so you could start feeding around 200 a day and then monitor her weight either with a scale or regularly assess her body condition by running your fingers along her to feel how much fat is on her, also look at her from the top and from the side. Then decrease or increase the amount as needed. Determining if cat is overweight or underweight: http://www.peteducation.com/article.cfm?…http://www.pet-health-care-gazette.com/2… [...]