Comments on: A Jack Sprat Parable

By: » Can Cats Eat Dog Food, and Vice-Versa?

» Can Cats Eat Dog Food, and Vice-Versa? — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 13:07:33 +0000

[...] The moral of the story is that your dog should eat dog food, and your cats should eat cat food. The simplest way to make that happen could be to end the feeding free-for-all and offer meals to your pets in separate rooms. For more information on keeping your pets from eating each others’ foods, click here. [...]

By: Tabby

Tabby — Fri, 16 May 2008 05:59:51 +0000

We have a multiple cat household where two of the cats are overweight. Feeding those two in a separate room doesn’t give us the option of them eating only their portions, and we’ve run out of rooms to put them in. Any suggestions?

By: Cookie TN

Cookie TN — Fri, 16 May 2008 03:36:42 +0000

But the heavy cat only had access to her own bowl.
My only concern would be, couldn’t the thin cats still get to the heavy one’s bowl?
My grandma used to free-feed Cookie, and she was really overweight. Now that Cookie is mine, I feed her meals and she just needs to lose a couple more pounds.

By: Ted Rheingold

Ted Rheingold — Thu, 15 May 2008 22:46:56 +0000

Hi,

I saw a solution that amazed me recently. I wish I could find the link. A person with a similar situation constructed a small enclosed area with an open entrance that only the thin cats could fit through. The enclosure had a hinged top so the person could place food in there for them, and the thin cats could move in and out and eat normally. But the heavy cat only had access to her own bowl.

Not sure if that would work with your dynamics, but thought I would share it.