Fat pets

[Miss Chicken]

When I took my cat, Spider, to the vet a couple of days ago he was weighed. He came in as 6.7 kilos (almost 15 lbs). The vet said he was probably slightly overweight but not enough to be concerned about.

My other male cat, Georgy, is putting on weight. When we took him in, a year ago, he weighed less than 3 kilos which was significantly underweight. Now he is over 5 kilos and is beginning to look chubby. He is a shorter cat than Spider.

Georgy is food obsessed. Once he eats his own food he tries to steal the other cats' food. He is always wanting to be feed. I suspect, because he is an indoor/outdoor he is getting food from other sources as well. I really think I should put Georgy on a diet.

Have you ever had to put a pet on a diet? I am not talking about just diets for weight-loss but for other health problems as well? If so, how did your pet react and was the diet successful?

 

[All Seeing Eye]

My Gerbil has 2 food bowls and empties both of them every day.
He's honestly fat as **** which is why i've stopped calling him Toby and started calling him Fatty.

 

[Kirk's_Tights]

You have a cat named Spider?


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My mom had to put her cat on a diet. She was huge....

 

[Crusher Disciple]

My furry tub of lard is 16 pounds. It's going to take a while to get her back to skinny.

 

[Miss Chicken]

You have a cat named Spider?


@_@

Not as strange as my girl cat's name - Miss Chicken.

Here is the most recent photo I have of my Spider. People can tell me if they think he looks fat.

 

[kimc]

I had to start restricting my dogs to 1/4 cup of kibble a day. One was seven pounds and the new puppy was nine pounds - they should each weigh about five pounds which is a huge difference for dogs that size. I'll be glad when the diet is over - I feel horrible watching them push their empty dishes around.

 

[Vulcan Princess]

I have a 12 lb cat who my vet says could stand to lose a pound or two. She was 8 pounds when I took her in and she was too skinny. She grew to about 9.5 pounds upon proper feeding and started gaining excessive weight when we got a kitten who steals her food. I think she's worried about having enough. I put her on a low-calorie cat food, but I had to switch because she developed an allergy to it. I'm thinking of getting one of those automatic feeders that's on a timer, since I work weird hours and travel a lot on business. Right now, I just leave a big bowl of food and she eats when she's hungry.

 

[RJDiogenes]

My Mother's last cat was huge for a while, around 18 lbs. In the last six months to a year of her life-- she was very old-- she dwindled down to less than ten. Maybe as low as five, I forget.

 

[nevermore]

Eh, two of my cats are quite fat. I've had them all on indoor/weight control food for the past year, but there's been no change at all. I can't really give them limited amounts of food because then the most aggressive (and fattest) one would just eat it all and the others would starve, especially the one cat that is not overweight. Screw it, they're healthy and it's cute:

And it doesn't hinder them:

*shrug*

 

[freak]

In 2007, my cat Buttercup weighed in at a huge 27 lbs! He got on perscription w/d dried cat food formula and now weighs a healthy 10 lbs. But the worst thing is we can't get him off the food. Everytime we try to give him something with it he gets really sick, throwing up all over the house. Now our other cat, Bandit is getting fat. I've been cutting back her food though and she has NOT been happy AT ALL. Buttercup seems to always be hungry, meowing constantly. Mom tells him to "buzz off" or "shut up or I'll squirt you with the water bottle!". He can be a sweety though..then he can be a royal pain in the ass.

 

[Miss Chicken]

In 2007, my cat Buttercup weighed in at a huge 27 lbs! He got on perscription w/d dried cat food formula and now weighs a healthy 10 lbs. But the worst thing is we can't get him off the food. Everytime we try to give him something with it he gets really sick, throwing up all over the house. Now our other cat, Bandit is getting fat. I've been cutting back her food though and she has NOT been happy AT ALL. Buttercup seems to always be hungry, meowing constantly. Mom tells him to "buzz off" or "shut up or I'll squirt you with the water bottle!". He can be a sweety though..then he can be a royal pain in the ass.

Would you have any before and fter photos of Buttercup?

Eh, two of my cats are quite fat. I've had them all on indoor/weight control food for the past year, but there's been no change at all. I can't really give them limited amounts of food because then the most aggressive (and fattest) one would just eat it all and the others would starve, especially the one cat that is not overweight. Screw it, they're healthy and it's cute:

What about feeding them in separate rooms or does your normal weight cat eat only a little at a time?

 

[nevermore]

What about feeding them in separate rooms or does your normal weight cat eat only a little at a time?

Yeah, he only eats a few bites then walks away. Actually, they all do, so since I also live in a one-bedroom apartment, I would have to lock one in the bedroom and one in the bathroom in order to keep the separated, and would have to do so for hours in order to ensure that they all ate their food.

 

[tharpdevenport]

I saw a cat on a show once, that was so fat -- 30 pounds -- that it couldn't walk for very long, and the owner was pushing it around in a wheelbarrow. He would feed the cat, as I recall, runny cake batter.


I imagine a cat half that weight experiences spells of tiredness that a cat weighing less would not.

 

[Ruaidhri]

My dog is about 10 pounds heavy. She should be 55 to 60 pounds, but weighs maybe a hair under 70. When I was still with my ex, her solution to a whiny Lily was to give her a treat, and of course as she got older, Lily started gaining a little weight, which is not out of the ordinary for a dal as they become less active.

Since I separated from my ex, I cut back significantly on the treats, and Lily has slowly been shedding the extra weight. Now that the winter is gone, I'm ramping up the exercise for her too.

When I had cats I absolutely hated when it became necessary to put just one of them on a special diet (for uroliths). It was nigh impossible to feed the pigs separately and so we had to buy tons of that expensive prescribed formula kibble.

 

[captcalhoun]

Shade was overweight, we put her on a diet under vet's orders. but she got too skiinny because we never got told when to switch her off to something else for too long. she's gaining weight again, but is not fat. since she lost the weight, she's been even more of a pickle than she was as a kitten!

 

[Warp Coil]

I took my chinchillas to the vet recently, and the vet wanted to weigh them. I found it a little strange, and wondered how they expected to get a chin to sit still on a scale. Turns out they put them inside a tupperwear container and subtract the weight of the container. Anyways, it turns out that one of them is overweight. He's got a heart murmur, too, so the vet would like him to slim down for his health. So far it isn't working.

 

[C. Cole-Chakotay]

My little darlin', Tulip, is supposed to be fat. She's a guinea pig. Truth be told, she's smaller than most, weighing in at 934 grams. I think she's a nice size. She's a 'heart pig' and is on medication so I don't want her to get too fat.

My boys (gerbils), Michael and Erik, are also in the normal range for their species. Michael weighs in the 90's grams, and Erik weighs in the 80's. Erik is the big eater of the two, but is also more active than Michael.

 

[C. Cole-Chakotay]

I took my chinchillas to the vet recently, and the vet wanted to weigh them. I found it a little strange, and wondered how they expected to get a chin to sit still on a scale. Turns out they put them inside a tupperwear container and subtract the weight of the container. Anyways, it turns out that one of them is overweight. He's got a heart murmur, too, so the vet would like him to slim down for his health. So far it isn't working.

They weigh guinea pigs the same way. I even have a kitchen scale I weigh my girl on weekly. I hope your boy does well with his heart murmer.

 

[Miss Chicken]

I took my chinchillas to the vet recently, and the vet wanted to weigh them. I found it a little strange, and wondered how they expected to get a chin to sit still on a scale. Turns out they put them inside a tupperwear container and subtract the weight of the container. Anyways, it turns out that one of them is overweight. He's got a heart murmur, too, so the vet would like him to slim down for his health. So far it isn't working.

They weigh guinea pigs the same way. I even have a kitchen scale I weigh my girl on weekly. I hope your boy does well with his heart murmer.

They weighed my cat is his carrier and after I took him out the cat carrier was weighed.

 

[Vanyel]

My cat, Fergie, looks very over weight. I suspect it's due to her being a long hair. However when I took her to the Vet for her vaccinations she came in at 12.5 lbs, an increase of .5 lbs over her last visit. I feed her the same every day, she get a cup of food and no more until the next day. And she will knead on me at about 7 in the morning until I get up and put food in her bowl. Anyway I asked the Vet if she was overweight and he told me that she was "pleasantly plump" and that at her next visit, we'll see if she's gaining weight.

Fergie is quite active, and can easily jump from the ground to her favorite spot, which 4.5 feet up. She likes to go into the bathroom, and jump up onto a set of drawers, where her kitty karrier is kept. She loves it up there and usually sits there and waits for me to come out of the shower before jumping down, with a thud sound, and rubbing against my wet legs. I've tried to stop her from doing that, cause I hate getting her fur on my legs just after a shower, but she has a strong will and I have yet to win that battle.