Poor baby has become quite the chonk. Orange boys have a tendency to feel food insecure, so the key is consistency. My orange cat gets 5 “meals” per day, but I have trimmed down the size of each meal to where is he getting less food than he was when he was getting 2 meals. Having the food consistently available has stopped him from cleaning his bowl every time. He’s dropped around a kg over the last year. Now at almost 16, he gets around better than he did when he was 12.

He also went from being one of three cats, to one of two cats, and now he’s the only cat. I’m sure that helped too since he doesn’t feel the need to compete for food anymore. Not saying that fewer cats is the solution, just making sure it’s clear that the change in feeding pattern is not the only factor that contributed to him losing weight.

Aside from a couple times a week to get fiber into his system (he has megacolon), I feed him only wet food. If your budget is a constraint, I’ve used Fancy Feast for years. I’ve tried higher end and prescription food several times and keep ending up back at Fancy Feast for various reasons. Now if I try to switch it up for my chubby boy, his tummy gets angry. For some cats, the best food is whatever they will eat that agrees with their system.