MC weightloss

[Raaiq143]

Hi guys

My one and half MC has a lost 1kg of weight after I switched to adult food (Royal Canin).
He has now put back most of the weight after i changed back to the kitten food (Royal Canin).

My question now is, what can I feed him to gain more weight and muscle? as his hind legs/hips are thin compare to the rest of his body.

[jckkerrison]

Kitten food is really very high caloried for the quick growth that babes have to cope with & no way would I have left a babe on that for so long so could it be that when you went onto the adult food he lost "baby weight" & hit a more natural one as how you are describing him he sounds like an "overweight" animal,they look all front & no back,if you are happy that he is healthy then I would start getting him back onto adult food gradually & hopefully get his natural shape back & let him grow at his own speed or if any way worried pop him along to the vets for a check up & they will be able to confirm wether he is overweight through feeding or has a problem {which he shouldn't at this age bless him}.

[Raaiq143]

I took him to the vet and they confirmed he was a little underweight. The vet also recommended that I immediately put him back on the kitten food to regain his weight and then slowly wean him off the kitten food which I am currently doing. Bolt weighs now 5.8kg's as he was that weight before he lost it. So is it normal for a MC's to be "boney" around his hip area?

[jckkerrison]

I have one who is very boney around that area but his build is very long & lean so doesn't look out of place, as an adult he only weighs in on average about 6.40kg has been as low as 6.10 so if your boy is one of the same type no way would he be underweight as he has another 2.5 years of growing to do yet anyway,a lot of them tend to go thin & can loose weight {although admittedly not quite so much as your boy} when they have a growing spurt then they seem to grow into their body again,your boy might have been unlucky enough to have had a growing spurt at the same time you were weaning him off of the richer high caloried food.Perhaps by gradually moving him back over onto adult food he will loose any baby fat without a lot of weight & his whole body will look in proportion again.I have to say they do tend to vary a lot in their growing stages & look different none of mine have been the same....x

[H&SWells]

when i tried to move mine from kitten to adult my tabby had a bad reaction so instead , once he settled down gradually over two weeks swapped them on to MC kitten food , which RC recommend up to 15 months ...only over the last four weeks have i put them on adult food , maybe worth trying that