It has to be a con! (Hill's Science Plan for Cats)

Member Name: jaxm

Product:	Hill's Science Plan for Cats
Date:	22/01/04 (703 review reads)
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Advantages: Tasty from a cat's point of view, Much cleaner to handle than meat

Disadvantages: It's very expensive, It doesn't necessarily work

My cat was slightly overweight and, having taken him to the vet for his usual vaccinations, the vet recommended that, for the good of his heart and his kidneys, he should try and lose a bit of weight. She recommend a Hill's Science Plan special diet for him.

He loved the biscuits and we spent a small fortune each month buying them from the vet, thinking that we were doing him a favour. We took him back for his first weigh in after three months but he'd put on a few ounces. The vet insisted that we hadn't been sticking to the diet or somebody else had been feeding him. We persevered with the diet for a couple of years - and he was still overweight.

Eventually he got bored with the biscuits and that, coupled with our straitened financial circumstances, encouraged me to buy normal Go Cat type biscuits and supplement this with tinned cat food. He enjoyed the biscuits and the meat, and we enjoyed the monetary savings! By this time, we'd given up taken him to the vet for weigh ins, and only took him once a year for his boosters.

He must have been on the "normal" cat food for about three months when we took him to the vet for his boosters and, lo and behold, when the vet weighed him, he'd lost 2lb! She had no idea that we'd stopped using Hills and very smugly told us that she knew the diet would work eventually. Her face was a picture when we told her that we'd taken Jules off the diet some three months previously!!

So, don't be conned into buying expensive special diets for your cat. The food itself is probably nutritious and cats enjoy the taste - but then most cats seem to do quite well on good old Whiskas and Go Cat too.

By the way, Jules is now very trim. I'm thinking about changing my diet to Whiskas and Go Cat!!

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