So I’ve been reading this forum for a couple of months, since before I got my boys but haven’t got round to signing up until now so very excited!!

I have two conti lionhead crosses from a rescue. They’re brothers and very affectionate (with each other and anyone else who possibly has food). They live (near) free from roam in the house together and I’ve been quite lucky as it only took a month to get them litter trained.

However, the last month has been quite traumatic. The bigger of the two (Ozzie) ended up with a stay in the vets on a drip because he is really struggling to put on weight. The vets suggested that they were both underweight due to not being fed enough at the rescue when they were pre-6 months. So they both went onto an insanely heavy diet to try and get weight onto them as quickly as possible. They both seem much happier now (which is great) and spend most of their time jumping and running around like mental bunnies. However, the smaller of the two (Cornflake) is starting to approach optimum body condition, whilst Oz is quite far off.

Has anyone got any suggestions of high calorie things I could feed one of them (most of their food is consumed when I am at work) I can hand feed mornings and evenings in order to ensure Oz is receiving more food – I just can’t find anything high calorie enough that they’ll actually eat!!

They are both in great health otherwise and have had every lab test in the world done, but I’m nervous that with Oz now growing length-wise rather than putting on weight he won’t be able to cope if he does get sick..

Thanks!