Under the Weather Pet | Ready Cal for Kitten | High Calorie Pet Nutritional Supplement for Weight Gain & Healthy Weight Maintenance | 10 Vitamins, 7 Minerals, Omega Fatty Acids & Carbohydrates | 80cc

My older cat absolutely loves this — she’ll lunge for the dispenser the second she sees it. I started giving her Under The Weather Ready Cal when she was slowing down and eating less, and it’s made a real difference. She’s perked up, put a little weight back on, and seems to have more energy. It’s easy to use, she enjoys the taste, and I like knowing it’s full of good nutrients. Great for giving an older or picky cat a boost.

I have a 15 year old Yorkis with kidney issues. He cannot afford to miss a meal but he refuses it more often.I mix a little of this in his food and he eats! The added calories and electrolytes is what was needed. I have also noticed a bit more energy in him. Great product.

I bought this Under the Weather gel for my 15 year old cat with jaundice. Since she's been feeling bad, her appetite has not been as good as normal. However, not only does she love the gel, I'm pretty sure it also made her feel a bit better by relieving her dehydration a little. She's been peeing a lot so I'm sure she's low on electrolytes, which is the original reason I gave this gel a try. She's also lot a lot of weight and this is helping her get some extra calories in her. Sadly it's not curing her jaundice, but it's at least treating dangerous side effects of it.ALSO, because the gel is sticky and gummy, it's great for hiding small pills. I've been hiding her steroid pill inside a dollop of it and she usually swallows it down.

Yeah, forget the directions to dab a little on a paw and let the cat lick it off. My cat was horrified at being smudged. She wouldn’t lick it off a plate either. I didn’t like taking a glob and shoving it into her mouth, and you should’ve seen her incredibly unhappy and disgusted face the one time I did.I got this to increase the calories my cat took in during a time she was too sick to eat well or enough. On that count, it’s fine and does offer calories and some nutrients. The issue is getting it into your cat.This stuff is thick- you can’t syringe it in, and it doesn’t mix into food easily. What I ended up doing was putting a teaspoon of this and a teaspoon and a half of baby food in a tiny container and microwaving it 8 seconds. Then I could stir it all together, let it cool and syringe feed it.All the high calorie gels have questionable ingredients that you probably wouldn’t want to give your cat long term but this stuff *did* help keep weight on my cat til she recovered sufficiently to eat more on her own. At the same time I used this, I also tried the Tomlyn brand. I prefer that one - it’s far easier to get out of the tube and (after heating with some baby food) it mixed better. It’s also less expensive and not in a big inconvenient container like Under the Weather.I also tried Richard’s Organics which was thicker than the Tomlyn or Under the Weather. It was the hardest to squeeze out of the tube and more difficult to mix in.I’m definitely not a veterinarian but as a consumer I’d suggest that any high calorie gel is probably not enough to keep your cat going, even if you follow the directions. It certainly won’t fill an empty belly (which must be uncomfortable) or keep them eliminating regularly. Not eating can become habitual so stop it fast.What we did for our 8 pound cat: Got some of the Gerber (meat only) “2nd foods” for “sitters” (on the label).They have:TurkeyChickenHamBeefRead labels. In most other brands, the calories are lower per jar.You can also easily heat, mix and syringe with Hill’s A/D diet as it’s liquidy and nutritious. You need a prescription for this food from your vet.Even mixing a teaspoon of the gel with 1 1/2 teaspoons of food, you end up with a bunch of syringes of food. You look at it all and wonder how you can possibly get it into your pet, so many little syringes.Hey, it’s your pet’s life. Get someone to help if you can. Wrap that baby up in a towel or blanket like a burrito. Put the burrito on a towel or sheet you don’t care about to catch any droppings. Gently lift the side of the lip and get the food in there 1 ml at a time. Chase with some water syringes at the end.It’s not fun but it may keep your pet alive. We’ve done this twice a day now for 10 weeks. Our girl is just now starting to get back to more regular eating and moving around again. Worth it? Definitely.This is NOT intended as veterinary advice. If you have a vet who’ll give you feeding guidelines, follow that advice. Our cat had 2 different vets (regular vet and internal medicine specialist) and neither one had any ideas. I’m just saying what we came up with and apparently worked. Best wishes to you with your pet.

This literally saved my cats LIFE. He's 17 and all of the sudden just stopped eating and drinking. Where normally he is always at my feet wanting food. He went from that to not eating for 5 days. I was trying to squirt water in his mouth because I could see and feel how dehydrated he was. At his age I wasn't about to take him to a vet because the stress of that alone would have killed him. I somehow found this googling what I could do for help. I ordered it. Got it the next day. Administered it immediately, and within 3 hours he started to eat again. It was just a little the first day but by the second and third day he was eating more than he has in over 2 years. I literally have no idea how this worked but I was seriously preparing myself for the worst and it was making me sick. I only gave him half the recommended dose the first day for fear he would have a bad reaction. He had zero side effects. Yesterday I bought him a piece of fish and chicken from long johns and he ate both other then the breading I took off in it's entirety. I also got him a vanilla frosty from Wendy's and he drank a 4th of that. It is amazing and I thank whoever made this. It literally saved my cats life. And whoever it was that said in another review they wish the tube was bigger ? It's HUGE!

Excellent product! Kittens responded within 2 to 3 days and became playful and energetic.

Why did you pick this product vs others?:I got this out of desperation as my cat would not eat for weeks, despite the vet giving him appetite stimulants and other medications to encourage eating. My cat refused to eat this. I could not get it in his mouth bc it was so thick and would not come loose from the tube. It ended up all over his fur around his mouth. Waste of money.

My 17 year old cat is in a health crisis and not eating well, and so I tried giving him Under The Weather high calorie gel. The first day he wouldn't touch it until I mixed in with another treat. After that first day, he decided he loved the taste and readily ate it off my finger, when he wasn't eating anything else. Even though my cat's appetite has improved somewhat, I just ordered my 3rd tube of this high calorie gel in the hopes keeping my cat going through some tough days.