Wet canned food

We decided to start supplementing Tigger and Sheboo's diet with some wet canned food, since it has almost no carbs compared to the kibble (cats as carnivores don't need carbs). Supposedly, wet food also helps make sure the cats ingest enough water, which helps prevent kidney-related problems. Before, we had allowed free feeding of kibble, which was fine for Tigger, but Sheboo had become, for lack of a better word, obese! We then bought an automatic kibble feeder before to help Sheboo lose weight by feeding small regular meals. The feeder dispenses a total 0.375 cups of kibble for each cat a day (< 200 cal). Though Sheboo has lost weight over the year, she is still fat (though I guess no longer obese). We can only surmise that she must be eating some of Tigger's share. So, after some research, we decided to get a case of Nature's Variety Instinct and a case of Evanger's canned cat food, since they both seemed to have meat as the primary ingredients and minimal carb fillers.

Trying out the Instinct canned food Tigger happily chowing down

Tigger loved the wet food, but Sheboo is a very finicky eater for such a fat cat, and does not like to try any new foods. We tried to entice her by mixing in some canned sardines and dried bonito flakes, but in the end, the only thing that would work was to basically wait till she was starving enough to eat it. So, for now, we are feeding them the wet food in the morning and the kibble in the evening. Overall, the total calorie intake will be reduced from the all kibble diet, so hopefully we will see some results with Sheboo.