Posted on 01/17/2012 12:20:17 PM PST by smokingfrog
The days of gluttony are over for one fat cat out east.
Tiny, a 30-pound house cat, was stuffed into a duct-taped box with a normal-sized cat one-third his size and dumped at an animal clinic in Fredericton, N.B., shortly before the New Year.
Nancy Garon, Tiny’s foster mother, brought him home to get him in shape. So she has him chasing a laser dot, which he never catches, wrestling with a toy fishing pole and hunting rodents. He will lumber onto the scales every Tuesday as part of a weight loss challenge to raise funds for the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.
But before the weekend, Tiny refused to eat, likely due to the stress of being abandoned at an unfamiliar place.
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At least they left him something to eat...
It depends on the cat’s frame. I had an 18 pounder who was just a tad overweight, a real gentleman cat.
Our current kitty was 1 year old and 11 pounds when we adopted him from the shelter. He was a little underweight at the shelter (bossier cat pigged on the community kibbles), so he has plumped up to a too fat 16 pounds. He cries for food constantly, plus he supplements with an unknown amount of mousing. The 18 pounder wasn’t thrilled with dry, and so was somewhat self-regulating. The new cat will eat as much as you give him.
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Tiny certainly isn’t.
Sounds like a job for Michelle.
cats don’t metabolize fat very well, it tends to collect around their livers. If they get really obese and then go anorexic, they can die if not force fed.
PING this one over to you. :)=^..^=
It’s the Catkins diet for that fattie.
All the ones I've known have a certain je ne sais quoi.
I had a friend who had two “Super Cats.” One 32 pounds, the other 36. They were not fat at all! They were slim, but as big as dogs! When they played, and chased each other around the flat, they’d knock over furniture!
I have two normal gal kitties, that are the same height and same length. One weighs 7 1/2 pounds, the other almost 12. Mao’s not fat though. She is “broad of beam, with wide shoulders and hips.
The Great PV was 23 pounds, but he was BIG. I didn’t want an obese cat, but he just kept growing. He was the first cat in this country to have feline leukemia and survive it.
The vet had no clue what was wrong with him. He gave PV a steroid shot and said if he isn’t better in 48 hours PV will probably die.
But he never was FAT. And he recovered.
(Ah nub kittehs!)
Good grief, that is so sad. That qualifies as animal abuse.
There’s an epidemic of fat cats. People need to understand that the pasty, dry, carb-laden cat food is poison for cats. The commercials touting cat food containing grains, fruits, and vegetables are insane. Cats’ bodies are not made to ingest carbohydrates, so many of them become fat and diabetic. The best cat food for them is Blue Buffalo—the wild version, with the bobcat on the bag. It’s all meat.
Teh kittehz, Ai luvz dem.
“I thought my 20lb cat was fat”.
He can haz salad?
I'd agree. If an owner can't keep his or her cat (or dog) at a reasonable weight, something is wrong with the owner.
You can't always tell from the weight alone how obese a cat might be. I understand, for example, that a 30 lb. male Maine Coon might be normal or close to normal.
But in Tiny's case, he is definitely seriously obese. Hopefully, he'll recover with proper attention and treatment.
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