Crunchie
Warren Veteran
OK I just got a big lecture from my new vet about Honeys weight which we've struggled with for some time.
She gets 2 small plates of herbs and veggies a day along with unlimited timothy hay and around 15-20 excel pellets every three days, she'll also eat grass and weeds from the garden. We were told by our old vet this diet was fine however Honey sometime had a mucky bum and was 3.4kg in weight. I found out that my dad had been giving her and Roly half an oatcake before bed so asked him to stop this a few months ago.
Our new vets says she'd prefer if Honey were between 2.5 and 2.8kg which I think she was when we first got her. However she also says she'd expect Honey to lose only 1% of her body weight each month. By my calculations it'd take her about a year to reach 2.8kg from the 3.28kg she's at now. Does this sound OK?
We've been told to offer different types of hay and to limit things like root veg, cauliflower and brocolli. Honey's always been quite good at eating hay but the vet says that offereing different types will give more nutirents as they can be picky about the actual hay they eat. She also said that Honey shouldn't get more than 20g of pellets a day but she doesn't even get this every week.
It's looking harder and harder to actually find a daily meal that Honey can have without her being a great big fatty. I've actually taken away all the commercial treats aside from the dried weeds type ones.
She gets 2 small plates of herbs and veggies a day along with unlimited timothy hay and around 15-20 excel pellets every three days, she'll also eat grass and weeds from the garden. We were told by our old vet this diet was fine however Honey sometime had a mucky bum and was 3.4kg in weight. I found out that my dad had been giving her and Roly half an oatcake before bed so asked him to stop this a few months ago.
Our new vets says she'd prefer if Honey were between 2.5 and 2.8kg which I think she was when we first got her. However she also says she'd expect Honey to lose only 1% of her body weight each month. By my calculations it'd take her about a year to reach 2.8kg from the 3.28kg she's at now. Does this sound OK?
We've been told to offer different types of hay and to limit things like root veg, cauliflower and brocolli. Honey's always been quite good at eating hay but the vet says that offereing different types will give more nutirents as they can be picky about the actual hay they eat. She also said that Honey shouldn't get more than 20g of pellets a day but she doesn't even get this every week.
It's looking harder and harder to actually find a daily meal that Honey can have without her being a great big fatty. I've actually taken away all the commercial treats aside from the dried weeds type ones.
