Reddit reviews Catit Design Senses Food Maze_DX
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Smart way to feed your cat and offer various levels of difficulty to challenge your cat's abilitiesSide cut-outs: Cat moves the food through the maze by pawing at it through the side openingsFood tray: As the food moves through the maze, it collects in the food tray at the bottom of the mazeVarying levels of difficulty: rotating disc located inside the maze allows you to increase or decrease the openings for a more difficult challengeAccu-Pressure Mat: provides pressure point paw massage
My cat was doing the same. She ate so fast she wasn't even fully digesting it... according to the vet, it wasn't even hitting her stomach before she puked it up. (She said because it was "tubed and undigested" that implies it's not going past the esophagus.)
We bought her this, and it's really helped the problem. She still throws up about once a week, but it's no longer daily. It took her about two months to really start using it (putting treats in it really helped), and it helped that I took out the top level at first. (Once she got better at using it, I put the top level back.)
If your cat has the same problem, I recommend it!
I got one of these for my chubby cat. He lays on the floor and rolls the ball back and forth down the length of his arm, barely lifting his head to eat the pieces that fall out. Sort of defeats the purpose there, Fat Man...
We also got him one of these and he just hip-checks the damn thing, knocking half of the food out in a single shot. I'd be annoyed, but I'm too impressed by his ingenuity.
Kitty treat maze!
This looks like a good design. I got this one a while back that I had to modify because my cats kept tipping it over to get to the food. I took off the base and replaced it with a wood post glued on top of a board (so that the cats would have to sit on the board to reach the food, which prevented it from being tipped). They hated it and would cry at night to bed fed.
http://i.imgur.com/AtI5IB8.jpg this Lucifer he is about 1.5 years olds. He is my baby! [maze] (http://www.amazon.com/Catit-Design-Senses-Treat-Maze/dp/B004G9L1H2/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pC_nS_nC?ie=UTF8&colid=GEKXSOCWU12Y&coliid=I333M0M7LYQKS5). Teddy bear :). Sorry to hear about your baby :(
Sorry, that's hilarious! You should think about getting one of these:
Catit Design Senses Food Maze
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B004G9L1H2/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_PcqFAb8Z9STMA
Make him work for it. He might still make a mess, but it will be a lot harder for him to do so.
Get your cat some puzzle feeders that vary in difficulty and start meal-feeding your cat exclusively. Breakfast lunch and dinner, nothing else. My cats have never been overweight, but they used to incessantly beg for food.
Jackson Galaxy is an amazing vegan, cat behaviorist (who also had a gastric bypass for a weight problem, himself- so he’s got some empathy for overweight pets) and if you look him up you’ll get a lot of good information about how to parent your cat.
Here’s one of my favorite puzzle feeders because of it’s difficulty. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B004G9L1H2/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_.oFnDbC9T56PC
But I’d recommend a variety. You can also make your puzzles out of trash if you can’t afford to buy a bunch of puzzles.
If you feed him a late dinner in a difficult puzzle it’ll keep him occupied for quite a while. Then you’ll have fewer hours of whining to endure.
Walking is an excellent idea, particularly for an active breed like a manx!
I would also suggest a few extra things :
Example 1 .example 2
Look into catit feeders. They come in different shapes, we have one that looks like a cylinder sort of, and one with various height tubes. They have to work for their food and it seems to keep them from eating too much cat digger
catit tower
I had the same problem - one skinny cat and one fat cat. I had to figure out how to give them both food. I didn't want the skinny cat to starve, and also wanted the fat cat to not just be able to pig out until the food was all gone.
I got them a food puzzle - they have to navigate the food out of the feeder one piece at a time. Since we got it, my fat cat went from 18.5 pounds to 14 pounds!
Try a free-feeding puzzle feeder. My cat got to a chonking 16 pounds (which is large for her size). We purchased a Catit puzzle feeder and she lost the weight in a few months. And she’s maintained herself at a perfect (for her) weight of 8.5 lbs for over 2 years now. Because my girl is a natural borne ✨Diva✨ my husband was against it at first, but it’s cheap, so...what’s to lose? I spent a couple minutes poking my fingers in and knocking bits down to show her the idea and she took to it like a fish to water. We now have a second one, of a different style and different maker, that we put elsewhere in the house and fill with a different flavor/type of food. Both my cats love them. The idea is to prevent them from easily eating too much when bored and to make eating more stimulating, like a hunt.
They can eat as much as they want for as long as they want, but they have to earn every last kibble of it. My (former) fat cat seemed to live in front of the feeder at first - knocking food down most of her waking hours. But now it’s just a few times a day, and maybe a single tablespoon’s worth of food at a time.
This is another Catit puzzle feeder. They also have a variety of puzzle feeder toys - if you’re OK with bits of kibble all over the house. This is just one example.
(We actually just had to put our former chonker on a special renal diet. (She’s 18). We picked her favorite puzzle feeder and changed just it to the new, specialty food and left the normal food in the other. My two girls haven’t had a stitch of trouble telling which is which. I think the only downside - as they see it - is that they’ve lost the diversity of two feeders. (According to the stuff I’ve read, they recommend multiple feeders spaced around the house to engage their instinct to search out food.) But I’ll be damned if I’m going to have multiples for each type of food spaced around the house. After all, there’s only so much room in my house.)
This........
So maybe it's not the digging itself, but the process of retrieving something that the cat likes? I'd try with one of those toys where you put (dry) food inside and the cat has to try and get it out (treat dispensers). They range from the basic ball with holes in it to more complicated ones. Here are some cool ideas I found:
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/564x/d8/ed/13/d8ed1329249004316c14b3f4b09fb013.jpg
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3769436/Scientists-reveal-DIY-food-puzzles-boost-cat-s-health-turn-ace-hunter.html
http://www.redferret.net/?p=27981
https://www.amazon.com/Catit-Design-Senses-Food-Maze/dp/B004G9L1H2
If I were you I'd try to DIY the toys first, because the cat might end up not using them. Also, I suggest you put new food inside, so the cat will be more interested to try it. Or just not her regular food that it can eat without digging.
How comfortable s she with touching her paws? I'd suggest soft paws if she's comfortable, or you could have the vet do it for you. They still allow cats to retract their claws, so they're humane, but they can't scratch up your apartment. I suggest this only because it seems so stressful & it's a quick fix for now.
For food, maybe a toy that forces your cat to play with it would fit her personality. Maybe a cat toy like this, or this? You'd have the problem of her knocking them around... but well, that's the point. It's meant to be enriching & fun for a cat like yours. You can put a food mat underneath it, so that when treats fall you don't have to worry about your floor getting dirty.
I don't have any advice for the water dish though, since you already switched it to a heavier one. Good luck!