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In article <1630@ihlpg.UUCP> kan@ihlpg.UUCP (Casali) writes:
>Is there any way to add calories to cat food and still
>have the cat like the food. 

No problem!  My cats eat whipped cream, ice cream, butter, and all
sorts of fattening goodies.  To discourage hairball, we keep a stick
of butter uncovered on a table for the cats (the five of them go
through a stick every couple weeks).  Most cats will gnaw happily at
"bull bacon" (trim the excess fat off steaks and roasts, nuke or broil
it till it's no longer raw, and let them at it -- they like it raw,
but I squeam when I see them eating it raw, white and repulsive.).
Eggs are cheap and most cats like hardboiled ones -- the cats and I
happily split them, with them eating the nasty yellow dry part --
exactly the division that puts meat on their bones.

Most cats will eat anything they see their person eating, so if the
cat can be tempted with a bit of your dinner, that's another
approach.  And when I'm trying to rehabilitate a weak cat, those
hellishly expensive jars of babymeat work like a charm -- they love it!

Those little 3 ox. cans of gourmet cat food are more fattening too, I
think, than standard canned cat foods.

And the kittymushies (semi-moist) foods are higher in sugar than most
other forms of catfood, so leaving a bowl of them where your cat can
get into them whenever she has room for a bite would help.

On one level, I almost wish I had your problem, since all three of our
former males are a little blimpy, while the gals stay slim.  You might
search for a source for Tami Ami dry cat food.  It's denser, so once
they're adjusted cats don't eat as much, but during the transition
period, while their tums are used to handling the old volume of less
concentrated food, they bulk up a bit.  I believe there are
prescription diets for putting weight on cats too, but since that's
not our problem, I can't give you any solid information.  Ask your vet.

By the way, somewhere I read a line about how to decide whether your
cat is too thin/too fat, and if someone can provide me a pointer, it
would prevent me from stealing the line without credit:

If you can't feel the cat's ribs, he's too fat; if you can see them
clearly, he's too thin.

Since being _too_ fat is as hard on cats as on people, don't
overcompensate.  It does sound like your furry needs a little extra
treat, but maybe not to go back to it's pre-illness weight.

Good luck!

				STella Calvert

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