I came back from my honeymoon and accused my parents of making Justin fat! Well, he was already overweight of course, but being gone for a week really made me do a double take and notice just how big he has gotten. Of course, I think my little brother may have just dumped a lot of food into his bowl each day instead of the controlled feeding that I asked my family to do, which may have caused him to gain at least some of the weight. Well, we bought a scale last night and from weighing myself and then myself with Justin in my arms, I got an approximation of his weight.
He weighed 14 pounds back around January and now he weighs somewhere around 17-17.5 pounds. This is really not good.
I have tried every trick in the book to get him to eat wet food in order to make him loose weight but he won't do it. He will eat maybe 2 bites of wet every few days and otherwise eats only dry. Right now he is on Chicken Soup for the Cat Lovers Soul and he gets somewhere between 3/4 of a cup and 1 cup every day. This is a bit less than what the bag recommends for a cat of his size.
He has been getting exercise every day with the laser pointer, maybe 5-10 minutes of running around total. Plus he will play with Stormy sometimes.
I am really worried about him that he has been packing on more pounds even though I do controlled feeding. With the amount of food that he gets right now, he is constantly begging for more and every time I get up and move toward the kitchen, he runs over thinking he will get more food. He is only 2 years old and I don't want him to have health problems from being overweight, especially diabetes. Already, he does not clean himself very well due to his size.
My husband insists that if I only serve wet food, he'll eventually get hungry enough and eat it. I have tried this, but I always have to give in and give him at least a little dry since I heard it was bad for them to go longer than a day without food.
What can I do? Is there ANY dry food that will help him loose weight? I will keep trying the wet food, but I just don't see that happening, as I have tried various brands and tricks for months.
I will try to post a picture of him later...he may have moved from "overweight" into "borderline obese". I'd really like to see him be about 12 pounds eventually.
He weighed 14 pounds back around January and now he weighs somewhere around 17-17.5 pounds. This is really not good.
I have tried every trick in the book to get him to eat wet food in order to make him loose weight but he won't do it. He will eat maybe 2 bites of wet every few days and otherwise eats only dry. Right now he is on Chicken Soup for the Cat Lovers Soul and he gets somewhere between 3/4 of a cup and 1 cup every day. This is a bit less than what the bag recommends for a cat of his size.
He has been getting exercise every day with the laser pointer, maybe 5-10 minutes of running around total. Plus he will play with Stormy sometimes.
I am really worried about him that he has been packing on more pounds even though I do controlled feeding. With the amount of food that he gets right now, he is constantly begging for more and every time I get up and move toward the kitchen, he runs over thinking he will get more food. He is only 2 years old and I don't want him to have health problems from being overweight, especially diabetes. Already, he does not clean himself very well due to his size.
My husband insists that if I only serve wet food, he'll eventually get hungry enough and eat it. I have tried this, but I always have to give in and give him at least a little dry since I heard it was bad for them to go longer than a day without food.
What can I do? Is there ANY dry food that will help him loose weight? I will keep trying the wet food, but I just don't see that happening, as I have tried various brands and tricks for months.
I will try to post a picture of him later...he may have moved from "overweight" into "borderline obese". I'd really like to see him be about 12 pounds eventually.