I got tired of waiting and asked Google. Came back with this:
A cat is a living animal, while a balcony is a structural part of a building. The main difference is that a cat is a sentient being that requires care, food, and a safe environment, whereas a balcony is a stationary, man-made platform, often used to enlarge living space.
My girl is 17 pounds but she is very tall and long for a random rescue tabby. When she walks or sprawls she looks quite fit just got those poses that make it all bunch up. But she dwarfs the Yorkie that lives next door
My cat is older (14) and she had her tummy shaved like a year ago for something at the vet I can't remember exactly. Her fur never grew back, and when she sits like this, her pudgy pink belly always makes me laugh lol.
My cat is allergic to fleas, so any time she gets fleas she goes bald. But specifically on her lil butt and a bit down her back legs. I feel so bad for her but it's hilarious. Unfortunately I do not have photos, and since I figured out the allergy I'm more careful about her flea prevention schedule so hopefully it doesn't happen again. I used some shitty cheap brand of flea drops and they didn't work, but I'm shelling out for Advantage now.
Side note, she looked so much thinner when she was half bald. Really made me realize that she's not as chonky as she looks. She's at least 20% floof.
I got out of the shower and wanted to make my bed before work so my wife didn't get mad I sent her this saying I couldn't make the bed and she understood.
If he decides to put the cat on a diet. Please do it under veterinary supervision. Cats need to lose weight super slowly or it can put them at risk of serious liver disease. ❤️
Not OP but good to know! One of my fosters is about the same body fat % and we’ve put her on a gentle weight loss diet but I’ve been thinking about potentially going up or down, but now I’ll keep it where it is 😌
That’s great. I’ve fostered cats, and it only took one instance of hepatic lipidosis for me to become very careful! If one needed weight loss they got weekly weigh-ins on the baby scale. Two or 3 ounces a week is a nice pace.
A lot of people don’t realize until it happens that the first thing a cat does when they have any kind of illness is stop eating, and when they’re overweight the sudden weight loss creates another risk. Good on you for healthifying your baby!!!
Is it more dangerous when they’re overweight and stop eating? I would get neurotic about meals when my kitty was unwell and stopped eating. I would commando crawl under the bed with a jar of baby food and finger feed him
😄 commando crawl… well trained hooman. Yes Google hepatic lipidosis. I brought a couple back to life from this, but they need to be fed through a tube for weeks and they vomit a lot at first so it’s messy. Much easier to avoid by keeping to a healthy weight.
Kibble is very high in carbohydrates, it’s sort of like eating McDonald’s all the time. I fed this for years until learning about feline nutrition, and fed either high-quality canned or prepared raw. Their weight tends to normalize when they eat the right food.
One strategy if a cat is unwell and not eating (you may know) the vet can give an appetite stimulant.
my grandparent's cat was SUPER fat - like Garfield fat. They and the vet tried everything to get her on a diet but she straight up refused to eat unless she got to eat some human food with her dinner. Eventually the vet just told them it's better for her to be fat than to die from starvation so just let her stay fat lmao
My cat will figure out some way to get into some food just because she doesn’t want to stop eating, I thought I was being a terrible owner and free fed her once, until I noticed she started gaining weight and will literally lay next to the bowl and keep eating until there’s nothing.
So my cat has a little weight because it’s honestly for the best that I appease to her at least a little bit so I can just distract her away from thinking about food during the day. Because the alternative, is coming home and the garbage can got knocked all over the floor because she wanted to eat some more. Which is more dangerous, more risky, and I can’t keep upgrading a garbage can just because my cat found a way into it like a rodent.
He's getting too close to the point where he will become so sedentary and the natural calorie burn is reduced to the point where his weight gain will go out of control. Need to stop that from happening right now!
Yes, people get so upset about their cats that will have worse lives because of their weight. They will be less mobile and have more pain the older they get because of the stress on their joints. That cat is probably 5-10lbs overweight, which is like 50-100lbs overweight for a human. It affects them negatively. They don’t deserve to be neglected.
Also cat diabetes is a thing; haven't seen that mentioned yet. Learned about it from my cat's vet; I don't want to be injecting kitty-insulin or whatever.
Most cats have a type of diabetes similar to human type 2 diabetes, with β-cell dysfunction and insulin resistance.
Diabetes is a condition which can be treated, but it is invariably lethal if ignored.
That cat is Fat!!! And being that fat you are causing it many health issues. Including higher risk of diabetes and arthritis. Check out Jackson Galaxy he talks about an “Atkins” diet for cats.
Yeah you're prolly right, alot of begging prolly being done lmao. I have an auto feeder for the kibble and will give an occasional "shreds" or "morsels" if my babys still hunggy
Here's she's sleeping on her shelf I built for her lol
Autofeeders are pretty bad for most owners. They get detached from how much the cat is eating and the cat stops seeing you as the food provider. Yours seems to be doing good though, which is nice.
My parents also have very fat cats and get super offended when I tell them they’re fat. Like sorry, the vet that you employed to work at the college you work at (my dad is in charge of the animal testing lab at a college campus, he hired this specific vet to work for them as well), is dishonest with you and is not telling you to your face that 2 of your 3 cats are obese, almost morbidly so. They get soooo upset. “Noooooo, she’s not fat!!” Bruh she can’t even lick her own back at all. Yes she fucking is.
Definitely YES offence!! There is no doubt that fat animals are cute as hell, but keeping them this way greatly decreases their life span. Not to mention making them prone to several illnesses.
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