Comments on: Fat Cat

By: Christina-Xena

Christina-Xena — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 02:06:09 +0000

A pet being that much overweight, even for a cat, is considered obese, so the question comes down to what is in the best long-term interest of the animal, and how to achive reasonable health-weight goals? Now, not unlike for humans, I suggest:
- health food with reasonable food portions, so evaluate what types of food is being given a cat/animal. If addicted to can food, try quality dry food. If that doesn’t cut down calorie intake enough, then limit portions, and try more smaller meals spread out throughout the day, instead of one major meal.

-try to increase their activity, like letting the cat go out more (if applicable to do) or buy more play toys, and of course play with your pet a bit more. For an older animal/cat that prefers to lay around….find ways to stimulate them….just like you would a child. Cats are by nature “hunters” so even simply tying a string to a rod of some sort, with an object attached and get them to chase it is an easy activity…even while you sit in your chair…ahem!

- Don’t feed them human food! Our food is calorie rich, and often not good for a pet/cat. And the added flavors encourage overeating (often like for us people) Also this makes pets “beggers.”

But if one’s cat is a frequent “begger” for snacks…find low calorie healthy ones…and limit them. And use them to help train your cat, and stop being trained by your cat to respond to their every whim…and purrrr! Who exactly is in charge of whom!

Cats often decide to eat out of boredom, rather than true hunger, so do something to help alliviate that emptiness in their daily lives, and it will lower their appetites. BTW, a recent cat shelter found out that cats are real TV lovers, and especially animal type shows, and requested donations of extra TVs and got them. Fortunately today, the small flat screen TBV/monitors use far less power then ever, so consider a cheapie and leave it on a few hours a day on the nature channel.

And sadly, cats often immitate they owners, so if your cat demonstrates bad personal habits and being overweight, then maybe it’s this well reflects the owner as well. Afterall if we can’t stop stuffing our own faces, then we tend to feel that we can’t refuse our pets the same induligences? So to get your pet(s) in better health and reasonable weight then maybe you need to go on the same type of personal lifestyle corrective course as you want them to be on.

And finally, if we speak about dogs then get up out of the lounge chair, and take them for a long walk. What you then do for your beloved pet, may also do well for you!

Like master…like pet,

Christina-Xena

By: confuse

confuse — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 06:39:47 +0000

ok my cat is 27 pounds and maybe a little smaller than that so that picture isn’t true….

By: Terri

Terri — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 19:50:31 +0000

22 Pounds is no big deal, we have a cat who is slightly heavier than that, 24 pounds. A castrated male will get very large. Putting him on a diet is cruel. Why? Is he trying to fit into a bikini or something? Let him be fat, as long as he’s happy.
Life’s short!

By: kitty luver

kitty luver — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 03:01:12 +0000

actually that cat also has long fur plus the fat and besides my cat is 22 pounds and hes just as big but he doesnt look it because his fur isnt as long. duh.

By: Socrates Friend

Socrates Friend — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 09:51:31 +0000

The cat pictured is my partner’s cat and the photo is absolutely genuine. The media has reported that his goal is to reach 9lbs in 100 days. This is incorrect; the PDSA fit club competition runs for 100 days but Socrates’ weight loss will be much more gradual. He is not expected to reach his goal weight in such a short time; as many of you have pointed out, this would be dangerous to the cat’s health and his owner is well aware of this. Despite his weight and size, Socrates can move like lightening when he wants to……especially if he hears the food cupboard opening! The press have falsely reported that the cat is too fat to move and many unkind comments have been made in response. His owner is taking all the steps he can to ensure that Socrates has a long and healthy life. He is a beautiful cat.

By: not sure

not sure — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 01:40:42 +0000

Whether or not it’s photoshopped is not the problem… The problem is that the diet goal is unreasonable and could very well kill the cat. Cats need to lose weight slowly or they can develop problems in their liver. It’s also impossible to tell at this point what the proper weight for the cat should be. This would happen naturally on a proper low carb high protein diet.

Oh, and you guys out there feeding dry to your cats… check out http://www.catinfo.org.. not my site but it can save lives.

By: sara

sara — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 19:19:37 +0000

Wow, that’s nothing special.

My cat Cricket weighs 28 lbs.

By: Jay

Jay — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 19:15:40 +0000

The photo looks legit…I’ve done some Photoshop work in my day and know what to look for in false images. The cute vet holding the cat appears to be of diminutive stature.

By: Miss my Kitty

Miss my Kitty — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 17:37:50 +0000

Yes cats can get that big I had one who was not a main coon. She was 23 pound cat who had a eating disorder. I have a pic of my husband holding her and she is almost as long and wide as his torso and he is almost 5′10. We had to put her on a restricted calorie diet because she would eat until she puked. We had to hide her bag of food we would come home and she would have the bag knocked over with the front half in the bag and the back half hanging out. We then had to put our dog on specific time eating at the same time as the cat, because if he had food before she got it she would swat at him until he would lay down and then she would eat his food. Bad part about having a fat cat is the tend to get serious liver problems which is why we lost our kitty. R.I.P Nilla

By: octaypus

octaypus — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 15:50:56 +0000

That is a pretty fast diet. Any amount of research on the net will tell you that it can be very dangerous to an animal’s organs to have them loose weight that fast.
They should be doing this gradually, not so fast.