How do you put one cat on a diet when you have two cats and only one needs to lose weight?
I have two cats and one is very over weight (18 lbs) while the other is a very healthy weight. The smaller cat never over eats but the larger cat always eats too much. I keep dry food out for them all the time but that method of feeding is clearly not working for the larger cat.
I've thought about trying to put the smaller cat's food up higher but the large cat is still very agile and can get wherever the smaller cat can.
Any suggestions as to the best way to helping the larger cat lose weight without completely changing the smaller cat's routine? Also any thoughts on the best amount of food food to start feeding the larger cat when I put him on a diet?
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As you say, free feeding isn't working for one of your cats.
You can attempt a mechanical solution if you can find or create a place the non-overweight cat can get to but the pudgy one can't. If the latter is not able to jump as high, moving the daytime food up onto a counter or shelf might work; I've seen this succeed, once. Or you might need to go technical, with a cat-identifying cat-door giving access to a container holding that bowl of kibble.
But realistically, since you have to put one of them on a defined meal plan, it'll be easier to just do that for both of them.
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