Our 10 year old cat, Reggie, has been an "overeater" for his entire life. We have always attempted to control the amount he eats by measuring out his dry food every morning and giving him small amounts throughout the day. This has been somewhat successful. He is probably about 2 pounds overweight. There are alwaysm however, days here and there where we are not home most of the day and we have to choose between giving him his daily allotment early in the day which he immediately consumes or making him wait until we get home and worrying he is hungry. He also had the habit of begging for extra food and, softies that we are, we would give in and give him extra. With his new Automatic feeder we know he is getting the correct amount of food throughout the day and we have removed the emotional aspect of giving him attention (probably more what he was begging for) in the form of food. He has lost about 4 ounces since he has had the feeder which, according to our vet, is a very healthy weight loss for the two months he has had the feeder. We also don't need to worry about him getting fed when we are not home.
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