I love my trucker listeners — can you imagine their devotion to their cats, taking them on the road and then embracing the logistical challenge of switching to wet food? What a great owner!
Hello Tracie,
I am the driver who has an 14 y/o Ocicat who was diagnosed with hyperthyroidism 3 months ago. Merlyn has been traveling with us for all his life Bandit has been traveling with us for the past 3.5 years. While listening to you I learned the importance of wet food so we switched him and our black and white cat over to wet. The reason I am writing to you is to find out if you have a recommendation as far as volume of food. Should we stick to the twice a day with him or should we be feeding him more? He seems to be thinning out as well as around 1400 starts asking for more. The photo is our boys on the bunk in our truck. Thanks for your time.
Richard
I wrote him back:
Congrats on making that change, it’s even more impressive knowing that you are on the road all the time and your wonderful boys get to share your life. As you’ll see on my website or even in the letter above, a cat should eat as much as he wants in a 15 minute period twice a day. Cats won’t eat until they explode like dogs — if he eats a whole can offer him a little more — if he eats half a can, offer him a little more. Let him show you how much he’ll eat at the two feedings — once he gets full that should be plenty until the next meal. Losing weight is what you want!! Our kitties are all too fat!
Tracie
