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Originally Posted by
Moon's Mum
Malka, I started weighing things to get Cain's weight down. I include the bone in the weight for things like any kind of poultry bone and ribs. The only time I disregard the weight of the bone is for really big things, like a cow foot, where he's left with a giant cow leg bone which he won't possibly consume. If it's a bone he will eat and digest, like chicken wings or turkey necks, I count the bone and weigh the whole thing. Don't know if it's right, but it works for us.
I guess Pereg's general diet is working for her as well - it is not a major weight-reducing diet as a 1.5kg loss since September is not excessive, just rather satisfactory - and I have recently changed from giving her the bone meal every other day to two days out of three. I am actually considering giving her a bone meal every day for her first meal now as she stays satisfied for far longer on the days where she has the bone meal. If I do then I will either get the turkey necks cut into three instead of into halves [or cut them myself].
I have already reduced the wing meal down to one large or to small wings instead of the three I used to give her. The backs I do cut in half before freezing but there is not so much meat on them so a half really is not sufficient for her.
She has not really got any excess fat on her now but is still heavy for her size and shape - so it is difficult to know what to do, but she is definitely slimmer and apart from her epilepsy she is, according to the Vets, 100% healthy - so I guess I will just carry on as I am doing.