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Am I putting my cat on the correct diet? Please help.?

I have just recently gotten a cat, she is 2-3 years old and very overweight. She weighs between 15-16 pounds and has always eaten out of an AUTO FEEDER so we cannot tell how much she has been eating this entire time. We started out giving her 1/3 cup of food a day but she always meows, even when she has food in the dish. I just want to make sure we are not starving our kitty cuz she does need to lose some weight and I think by portioning out her food we can help:)
Thanks

YOU may not be feeding her the correct food..

Canned foods and dry food with grains and corn and canned food with gravy are A FAT CAT or unhealthy cat waiting to happen, you need to lower her carbs, raise the protein. You have to do it slowly, so their system can get used to it. Ask your VET for the best way or just try a little mixed with her now food for a few weeks.

FOR example I have a CAT who is diabetic, she was on science diet, I have read this could have caused her illness; her body can’t digest the grains/carbs… I have used this brand for all my pets for 20 years I was shocked to find out that her dry food I had been feeding her was 47% carbs!!! HILLS FOOD IS CRAP AND HAS been for years and I DIDN KNOW IT. And her HILLS canned food was 18-58% carbs!! Back 20 years ago they used to be proud of there less fillers, now I see they weren’t too proud to use them after all. ALL THAT CARB in her food played havoc with her blood sugar and once I lowered her carbs and fed her higher protein food her blood sugar went down more then 200 points and she did lose weight. She missed her dry food so I found one by WELLNESS its called CORE its costly but she doesn’t eat as much cuz there is ZERO Fillers no grains or corn all protein. AND ITS ONLY 12% carbs, its the lowest dry I have found and she likes it! I tried all the low/no grain cat foods and found some she likes and I keep her carbs down to 4-11% a day, I will give u the website where you can see all the carbs in all the cat foods and print it out for the shopping days, I also found if you go to a MOM and POP pet store you will get better deal with the BIG pets stores who have HUGE RENT and over head.. GOOD LUCK.
http://www.geocities.com/jmpeerson/dryfo… for the dry info

http://www.geocities.com/jmpeerson/ for two lists of canned food GOOD LUCK

http://www.wellnesspetfood.com/cat_wellness_dry_core.html

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