I have some good news regarding Rowdy’s diet. Kimberly and I finally found a diet system that works. We put the cats on a better quality food and then changed the way we were feeding them from a “fill (the bowl) and forget” method to feeding them a very specific amount of food twice a day. This didn’t work because the other cats would eat a little and then leave some for later, but Rowdy would eat his portion and theirs, too. Because the portions were smaller, it still wasn’t enough for him. Result: three cranky cats.
The solution was simple – we put Abra’s and Cat-Cat’s food up on a cupboard, where Rowdy can’t get to it. Once we did that, Rowdy started to see some results. Here is his weigh-in log:
12.18.07 – 24.0 lbs.
04.24.08 – 26.8 lbs.
07.28.08 – 27.2 lbs.
10.04.08 – 27.0 lbs.
10.09.08 – 26.6 lbs.
10.31.08 – 25.8 lbs.
11.16.08 – 25.2 lbs.
12.09.08 – 25.6 lbs.
12.16.08 – 25.4 lbs.
So, after a year, Rowdy weighs just a little bit more than when we first looked at him and thought he was so fat that we should weigh him. That doesn’t seem so good, but he really is making progress. By Summer, he’ll be ready for the beach.
An unfortunate side effect of weighing Rowdy is weighing myself. Ugh. That middle number is supposed to be a seven, not a nine. I don’t think the eggnog is helping me.
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