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Best to ask your vet. But here are my unprofessional tips.
The overweight issue: do they eat other unknown things, maybe from a neighbour or bins? (Neighbours always lie about this).
If they're not eating unknown things, maybe you're giving them too much? You can do portion control on the dry food by weighing it and weighing the cats. There are numbers online. Or you can switch to diet food: https://www.royalcanin.com/uk/cats/products/retail-products?specific_needs=weight_management You could get a target weight from the vet and work your way down to it.
A dry diet is not necessarily bad if it's good quality stuff and the cat is an enthusiastic drinker and has not had UTI problems in the past. If you switch to a dry diet and the cat doesn't drink enough and consequently gets a UTI infection, that could be unfortunate because it might keep recurring. Best to ask the vet.
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Any thoughts on this:
We have two moggies. Our feeding regime is
AM - small tin of wet food split between two bowls. They are very fussy about wet food. Currently we give them High Life chicken selection. Recently one of them is occasionally being sick after the wet food. Often they don't finish meaning there is bits of wet food hanging around in the bowls until I get round to cleaning it out.
Evening - cup of dry food each in two different bowls. They tend to finish the dry food. Feed a variety including Scrumbles / Lilly's / Applaws.
They are both a bit overweight, one more than the other. Considering binning off the wet food as they don't seem to particularly like it other than licking the gravy off.
But then lots of online stuff saying that kibble diets are bad for cats.