I give Hodge half a can of Hill's Prescription c/d at about 7:00 a.m.
and the other half at about 7:00 p.m.  He will eat anything (including a
small piece of bark that came in on my shoe). He polishes it all off in
5 minutes or less, single-mindedly. He will accept snacks immediately
afterward, which are really bribes to get him into the other room. :)

Congrats on getting your kid to eat. My old girl would not touch food of
any kind when she had CRF. It was heartbreaking.

I give Hodge half a can of Hill's Prescription c/d at about 7:00 a.m.
and the other half at about 7:00 p.m.  He will eat anything (including a
small piece of bark that came in on my shoe). He polishes it all off in
5 minutes or less, single-mindedly. He will accept snacks immediately
afterward, which are really bribes to get him into the other room. :)

Congrats on getting your kid to eat. My old girl would not touch food of
any kind when she had CRF. It was heartbreaking.

Corey Kaye <ckaye@holly.colostate.eduNOSPAM> wrote in
rec.pets.cats.health+behav:

Kami, dx in 2001, used to eat a half can of wet food a day by
grazing.  She won't eat any of the prescription diets, but she has
done very well on Science Diet for seniors.  Sadly, they
discontinued the one she liked and she was intermittantly fussy on
the second fave.  Nonetheless, the values were close to scrip, but
if you can get your kitty to eat it, more power!

She's now on "junk food" because it's an "eat anything" issue. Still
grazing, and the vet says it's okay.  

My two cats at home split a 5.5oz can of wet twice a day.  Otto, almost 7,
used to clean his bowl quickly but now usually eats some and walks away.
When Tiger was alive he wanted to go to her bowl, and she went to his, but
they didn't always finish right away.  They'd usually go back within a half
hour or so for the rest.  Now I have Isaac, an 8 pound bottomless pit.  I've
been giving him slightly more than half the can since Otto hasn't been
finishing his.  Isaac cleans his bowl in about 90 seconds or so.  I've been
adding canned pumpkin to his food because he's had diarrhea, and it makes no
difference.  Clean bowl in the blink of an eye.  Then I let him out of the
bedroom and he zooms over to finish up Otto's remains.

Isaac was fed wet & dry at the shelter and the first week he wasn't eating
much for me (he had a virus) so I broke down and bought a bag of dry.  I now
give them some as a bedtime snack and Isaac sucks his up in no time and the
rushes over to help Otto.  If given wet + dry at the same time, Isaac would
just Hoover everything up together.  Otto probably would go for the dry,
since he hadn't had any in years until now.

At work, Stinky gets half a can in the morning and a dry snack when I get in
(an hour after everyone else).  She gets another half can for dinner with a
little dry tossed on top.  Sometimes she eats everything right away and
other times she lets it sit for awhile.  Some days she won't eat unless I
crouch down on the floor nearby and talk to her.  Harriet gets about 1/4 can
of wet at a time, because she takes so long to eat.  She also gets a little
prescription Eukanuba low residue dry, which she seems to like a little more
than wet food.  What she really wnats is Stinky's Science Diet Light, wet &
dry, but we;re trying to keep her away from grains due to her
poop/intestinal issues.

--
Liz

She eats about 1.5 small cans, ie 4.5 oz total wet food per day. Plus a
few treats, a few pieces of dry, a spoonful of cat-milk, etc. She is a
snacker! Fortunately she is not an overeater, so I can put out what I
want but she will only eat what she wants and leave the rest.

I would like to feed 3/4 can twice, but sometimes it is 1/2 can thrice.

Very rarely. Usually she likes to nibble and come back.

Mostly wet, but there can be days when she has a craving for dry. I
don't mind, we all need change now and then.

There's 187 calories in a can of x/d.  You would have to find out how much
she weighs first, then find out how many calories a cat her size would need.