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Cats too fat.
Kelly Greene wrote:
"Bill Graham" wrote in message ... This is true, but food is only half of the equation. There is also exercise and my circumstances are different from what he he had before. My cats have a larger territory and they move about more. there is a chance he will lose some weight without drugs or starvation procedures. I guess I will just have to wait and see. I don't know what a "Maine Coon" cat looks like. But this one is just fat. I can tell from his other proportions that he could lose about half of his present weight and still be in good shape. I worked in an Animal Hosp for years in NYC. Where Maine Coons are concerned, most owners don't realize how FAT they are because of all the fur and being told they're BIG cats. Big and fat are not the same thing. They are larger cats generally speaking, but should not be FAT and weight 30+ lbs. For a Maine Coon to be that heavy and still be of "normal" weight, it would have to be the size of a cocker spaniel. And many purebred Maine Coons are no larger than the average housecat. They're not all large cats and that includes those being shown in cat shows. My brother in law lived in Alaska for a while, and he told me about a cat that was very large that he saw whose owner said he fed him something called, "Grow Kitty", which was some kind of hormone that made the cat grow abnormally large. I tried looking the stuff up on the internet, but with no success. This was about 40 years ago, so perhaps they took it off the market. |
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Cats too fat.
Kelly Greene wrote:
"Bill Graham" wrote in message ... Well, now he is an outside cat, but he doesn't seem to have a great deal of drive to run around outside. for sure, he doesn't go over the roof like a couple of my other cats do. I think that in time, however, he will probably become more active. It would be very hard to restrict his eating while he is living here with my other 4 cats. they have been living with an infinite supply of kibbles for a long time now. I was thinking..... have you considered switching to canned food? It's generally better for cats due to the moisture content and doesn't include fattening high-carb unhealthy things (for cats) like corn or other grains. I have 3 indoor only cats. None are overweight and all get canned food. They get a midnight snack of one of the better kibbles.. but that's all. Yes. I feed them canned food too. But the canned food requires a certin amount of up keep that the dry food doesn't need. My sink is always full of dishes soaking in water to get the dried canned food off of them, and the cats don't like this brand or that brand, or food that is too old, or had been eaten on by some other cat..... The dry food is always available to all of them, and it keeps, and is much more convenient. but, when a cat comes into the kitchen and meows, well, he/she gets a fresh can, or sometimes some roasted chicken that we usually have in the fridge too. We eat chicken about three times a week.... What it amounts to, is that we have a bunch of very spoiled cats.....:^) |
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Cats can certainly gain too much weight, especially if you've got just one and it lives in the house. Usually if you have two cats they keep each other busy, playing and chasing. Look on the box or go to purina.com and see what the recommended food portion is for him. If you don't know his weight, get on the scale and weigh yourself, then hold him in your arms and weigh again. It won't be exact but it'll be close. And when he begs, pick him up and hold him or brush him. He's probably begging for attention as much as something to eat. |
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