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Fat Kitty Still Needs a Diet

Fat Kitty Still Needs a Diet

Lisa Eirene

About Lisa Eirene Lisa lost 110 pounds through calorie counting and exercise. She swims, bikes, runs, hikes and is enjoying life in Portland, Oregon. Her weight loss story has been featured in First Magazine, Yahoo Health, Woman's Day and Glamour.com.

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11 Comments

  1. kalin

    I’ve gotten convinced my kitty is getting chubby-with us being gone so much around christmas i started letting her eat all she wanted and it turns out if you do that, she eats a LOT! in the past month she looks like she gained a pound or two (which on a 10 pound kitty is a lot)
    we feed her a couple times a day, so we’re doing that, but less at a time. we’re getting her a friend soon though-who knows what that’ll do to the eating…

  2. Erin

    I have the same kind of issue with my cats. One is a big fatty who loves to eat and the other is normal sized and skittish and likes to hide away (I wonder if this is a black cat thing because she is black like yours). I always leave out the food for them so they can eat when they want to. I recently took the fat one to the vet and she didn’t seem too concerned with his weight, so I decided not to worry about it.

  3. Sheri

    Such a sweet story, their adorable! Cats and Dogs can get Diabetes my Mom’s Smokie got it and past on, don’t think by feeding your babies is love that is where we fail as parents and hurt our kids. Feeding them healthy and good things is showing love, so go buy yourself some IAMS or Science Diet weight control food and put them both on it. It can’t hurt your shy one, but if you find he’s losing weight then you’ll need to do something extra for him.

    I know spoiling them is part of being a Mom, but we want our furbabies to live a long time we must take care of them, just like we are doing our own bodies.

  4. Lisa

    While I dont have any specific advice as such, I know my local vet has a big range of diet specific food. Perhaps you could go and chat to your local vet or vet nurse?

  5. Diane Fit to the Finish

    Our cat is 90 percent outdoors – but we give him Cat Chow, which he seems to like. Now our dog – he wants to be overweight, but we closely monitor his food allotment and keep him busy running around.

  6. Lori

    We had 2 kitties for a couple of years. They had to live separately because they didn’t get along. One was always very thin for her whole life. She ate free choice and got wet food and all kinds of treats. She never weighed more than 8 pounds her whole life (Oh how I wish I had the metabolism she did).

    The cat we still have has to have very portioned out food. She gets Iams Indoor Cat food, which is reduced calorie. She gets 1/2 cup a day, 1/4 in the morning and 1/4 at night. Plus 1/4 can of wet food (aka her crack) in the morning. This is actually weight loss portions for her, but she just does not get smaller. She gets no food treats *at all*. She weighs 10 pounds and the vet said no more. She was 1 pound heavier, but did lose that.

    Might be because she is the laziest thing ever, but sometimes I think she just takes after me 😀

  7. marie

    dude, having the SAME dilemma over here. We’ve got our own fat kitty and just adopted a kitten, and neither of them want to eat the food they’re supposed to eat. The vet recommended we do scheduled feedings (which we did already) but our older (fat) kitty doesn’t like eating when the kitten is eating. She weighs 11 lbs now but I sweat she’s gained weight since we got the kitten. We’re just doing our best to try to make them eat their own food, but it’s tough.

    1. Lisa Eirene

      Scheduled eating is so hard. I guess I give in to the whining from Fat Kitty because he becomes a brat if I take away the food…sigh!

  8. Amy

    I have a similar problem. My Charlotte (the one in my picture over there <–) is huge. She's meant to be a little kitty when you look at her bones, but she's weighing in at a hefty 6.2kgs!!

    My other kitty Toby is tall, long and very, very lean. He needs to eat all day long or he'll waste away to nothing (he struggles to hit 4kgs and is about 3cm taller than Charlotte when on all fours).

    But where there is food, there is Charlotte and for every battle I have with Toby to get him *to* eat, there is an equally tough battle getting Charlotte to stop! She's so fat she now has problems grooming her back so it has to be done for her with the brush 🙁

    I wish I had some answers for you! Sadly I don't, but I can say that I empathize!

  9. Tricia

    Unfortunately, they do make a prescription appetite suppresant for pets called Slentrol. Ask your vet about it.

    1. Lisa Eirene

      No I’m not giving my cats a diet pill. That goes against everything I believe in for myself, my cats wouldn’t be any different.

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