I dunno if its "Rx" specifically, I mean iVet is vet distributed only but I don't know why, it's just a reduced fat diet food. It's not got anything special in it that would indicate it needing to be sold by a vet. I thought it was odd. But yes, I get it at the vet only.
I feed her a chunk of wet food 2x a day, one on morning and one at night. Just like a tablespoon full. We also switched this to a lower fat but I'm not sure the protein on it. I think it's by Hill's. I just found the lowest fat one that didn't have a crapload of filler and one that had meat first on the list and not a bunch of "by product" etc. So she's probbaly getting more than 18% with that plus her joint supplement which doubles as a multi vitamin.
I think she's hungry, because she's always begging. SHE NEVER USED TO BEG EVER, even when we've gone through periods where she's needed pill medication that she'd get in a treat or whatever, she'd never beg.
So normally we were feeding about 1 cup of food. Now we are at 3/4 per instruction for losing weight. She was 10 lbs and some oz I forget how many, but wanted her down to like 7 since her patella, he said it could help her greatly to reduce weight a bit. I didn't know she was overweight until we shaved all of her hair off. She was a bit chunky! |