Sorry this is an edit. For some reason the half can part did not show
up. It should read I feed her a half of a can in the morning and a half
of a can in the evening

2 cups of dry food sounds like an awful lot food! ... and what size are the
cans?

I give Brio ? of a 3 ounce can of Wellness in the morning and the other half
at dinner. She doesn't eat the half can all at once, but returns to her dish
a few times during about a half hour period to finish it. She gets close to
a cup of dry Wellness over the course of the day but I don't leave it out
all at once cus I discovered when she was a kitten that no matter what
amount of dry food I left out she'd eat it ALL. She still has that same
tendency so small amounts at a time are all I give her.

Hi, I feed my Sassafras (Sassy) wet and dry food. After reading several
of the post regarding feeding, diets and what not, I think maybe I feed
her too much.  Her vet has never said anything about her being over
weight, actually when they weighed her Wednesday she was 13 ? pounds.
I feed her ? can of wet food in the morning and ? can in the evening.
She also eats around 2 cups of dry food daily (I leave it out all day).
She is a very active little girl who gets the zoomies at least 1 time a
day.  Her dry food is IAMS and her can is 9 lives (I have tried to give
her the expensive wet food, but she will not eat it, 9 lives is the
only one she will eat and then it has to be either the tuna and egg or
the tuna and cheese). She does not get treats (only because I have not
been able to find one that she will eat). Occasionally I will let her
have some potato chips.  She is 9 years old.

I have always fed my cats on an "at will" basis - they
always have dry food available, and moist food twice a day
(which sits there until the next feeding, if they don't eat
it all).  The only one who might have been termed "fat" was
the stray who adopted me after about three years on the
streets, and once he realized he'd never have to go hungry
again, he slimmed down.  (He was still a BIG cat - weighed
nearly twenty pounds - but it was all muscle, so neither
humans, dogs nor other cats messed with him!)

Without knowing how your cat is built, I have no idea if 13.5 is an
appropriate weight for her.

Take a look at this chart:
http://maxshouse.com/nutrition/Body_Scoring_System-Chart.jpg

Which of the descriptions best fits her?

If Sassy is considered to be overweight, you are over feeding.  I she isn't,
you aren't.
(although I have to say that she seems to eat a lot)
For my cats, half a gooshy can in the morning, and again at night is plenty.
I do give Boyfriend some dry, not much, to snack on.  He likes it so much, I
think he must have been fed on it exclusively in his last home.  I'm trying
to wean him off it and told him his willy will block up if he eats too much
dry.  He said he will just eat a little bit coz it's yummy and he yikes it.

Hi, I feed my Sassafras (Sassy) wet and dry food. After reading several
of the post regarding feeding, diets and what not, I think maybe I feed
her too much.  Her vet has never said anything about her being over
weight, actually when they weighed her Wednesday she was 13 ? pounds.
I feed her ? can of wet food in the morning and ? can in the evening.
She also eats around 2 cups of dry food daily (I leave it out all day).
She is a very active little girl who gets the zoomies at least 1 time a
day.  Her dry food is IAMS and her can is 9 lives (I have tried to give
her the expensive wet food, but she will not eat it, 9 lives is the
only one she will eat and then it has to be either the tuna and egg or
the tuna and cheese). She does not get treats (only because I have not
been able to find one that she will eat). Occasionally I will let her
have some potato chips.  She is 9 years old.

Two cups of any average dry food has probably 450-700 calories. Way
too much dry food. Most cats don't need more than 200-300 calories
per day. (estimating of course. I can't right off find the online
calculator for determining need based on weight) My overweight
feral gets at most 1/2 cup of lite dry food in 2 separate meals,
but she won't eat any canned food.

That sounds like a lot.  A can of food (Iams, Science Diet or Nutro)
will last Vino 3-4 days and he has a big bowl of dry Iams available at
all times but he only eats about 1/2 cup per day of it.  He has been
stable at 12 lbs all his life but does sport an impressive udder :-)
--
Britta
"There is no snooze button on a cat who wants breakfast." -- Unknown
Check out pictures of Vino at:
http://photos.yahoo.com/badwilson click on the Vino album

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I dont really think you can feed a cat too much unless they are big cats who
eat a lot because they*are* big, or a cat that has an unusually
large appetite, I feed Wilson a sm; tin of wet food mornings and fresh
meat evenings and like you dry food is there always, mostly he leaves half
the tin,just nibbling at itthrough the day, I pick it up when it dry's out,
sometime he gollups his fresh meat down and somtimes hardly touches it
prefering the dry,until henri got sick with his kidney's at 13 years old he
ate very well except he had chicken breasts cut up instead of meat,
Wilson wouldn't eat chicken.   regards   Jean.P.
Hi, I feed my Sassafras (Sassy) wet and dry food. After reading several
of the post regarding feeding, diets and what not, I think maybe I feed
her too much.  Her vet has never said anything about her being over
weight, actually when they weighed her Wednesday she was 13 ? pounds.
I feed her ? can of wet food in the morning and ? can in the evening.
She also eats around 2 cups of dry food daily (I leave it out all day).
She is a very active little girl who gets the zoomies at least 1 time a
day.  Her dry food is IAMS and her can is 9 lives (I have tried to give
her the expensive wet food, but she will not eat it, 9 lives is the
only one she will eat and then it has to be either the tuna and egg or
the tuna and cheese). She does not get treats (only because I have not
been able to find one that she will eat). Occasionally I will let her
have some potato chips.  She is 9 years old.