{"id":2673,"date":"2010-06-10T11:50:28","date_gmt":"2010-06-10T18:50:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hundredtenpounds.wordpress.com\/?p=2673"},"modified":"2010-06-10T11:50:28","modified_gmt":"2010-06-10T18:50:28","slug":"fat-kitty-needs-a-diet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/?p=2673","title":{"rendered":"Fat Kitty Needs a Diet"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fat Kitty needs to lose some weight.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>He’s always been a big kitty, but with every year he gets a little chubbier.<\/p>\n

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Fat Kitty<\/p><\/div>\n

The story of Fat Kitty is sort of sad but with a happy ending. About 8 years ago, I decided I wanted a cat (my first pet ever!). I was single, living in an apartment by myself and looked in the newspaper for free kittens. The first two people I called didn’t answer the phone. Person #3 answered and was available! I made a date to come check out her kitty.<\/p>\n

He was about 5 months old and homeless. She had rescued him from some neighborhood kids who were abusing him and hitting him with sticks!! As soon as she said that, I was hooked. He was adorable and tiny! Who could abuse such a cute creature?!<\/p>\n

I took him home with me. I didn’t have a pet carrier, litter box or food. He ran around the inside of my car the whole drive home. I stopped at Target and bought the essentials and we went home.<\/p>\n

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First Night Together<\/p><\/div>\n

Our first night together was strange. He was scared and had an accident on the carpet but after that he was the perfect kitty and the perfect companion.<\/p>\n

Except he started destroying my apartment!<\/p>\n

I’d come home from work to books on the floor, plants over turned, plants EATEN, kitty vomit and just general chaos. I realized quickly he needed a playmate.<\/p>\n

A coworker’s cat had kittens so I adopted one from her. She was the runt and totally tiny. I named her Maya.<\/p>\n

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Maya<\/p><\/div>\n

It took 2 weeks of them fighting before they finally adjusted and loved each other. They started grooming each other and they sleep together. It’s pretty adorable.<\/p>\n

Since I had Maya–a tiny kitten–I bought her Kitten Food. High fat food. Fat Kitty went from being a long, lean kitten of 1 year old to being a FATTY cat! He was eating all her kitten food instead of HIS food!<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>I had to stop buying the kitten food. He lost some weight after that.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Fast forward 7 years…Fat Kitty weighs 17 pounds. He’s very long and muscular but he also has a bit of chub. I know that part of Fat Kitty’s problem is that he’s always afraid there won’t be enough food. I’m guess that’s from being homeless as a kitten. That kind of imprinting is hard to shake.<\/p>\n

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Back in the Old Days<\/p><\/div>\n

Fat Kitty is my soul mate. \ud83d\ude42 I love him dearly and he’s the coolest cat ever. He has the personality of a dog. He follows me around the house, comes to me when I call his name. He’s playful and goofy and the most affectionate cat I’ve ever met.<\/p>\n

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My Babies<\/p><\/div>\n

My dilemma?<\/p>\n

1. I can’t just feel them once a day because Maya is shy and won’t eat unless no one is in the house (she’s weird and skittish). If I didn’t leave the bowl out all day, she’d never eat.<\/span><\/p>\n

2. What kind of food do I get? I currently use the Costco cat food. Yes cost is a factor but I also want them to be healthy.<\/span><\/p>\n

3. When I tried (several times) to feed them only once a day and take away the dish, Fat Kitty cried and scratched everything. \ud83d\ude41 What can I say? I gave in…<\/span><\/p>\n

I don’t know what to do! I want my cats to be happy and healthy and live a VERY long time. Other than the few extra pounds, both cats are very healthy and have no medical issues.<\/p>\n

Any suggestions? What do you feed your cat? Does it have a weight problem?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Fat Kitty needs to lose some weight. He’s always been a big kitty, but with every year he gets a little chubbier. The story of Fat Kitty is sort of sad but with a happy ending. About 8 years ago, I decided I wanted a cat (my first pet ever!). I was single, living in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[104],"tags":[452,453,561,8784,729],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2673"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2673\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}