What affects us affects cats
Meow Fat cat MEOW has died. I wrote the story of this amazing overweight cat a few weeks ago as those at the Sante Fe Humane Society and Animal Shelter worked to help Meow shed some of his 39 pounds. Unfortunately, Meow lost his battle on May 5 due to pulmonary failure. He’d began …
Photo: © Beck E reproduced under creative commons Pictures of fat cats are quite popular. I am not sure why. Perhaps people are looking for rich people rather than cats that are overweight! This page is about cats…. Fat cats are unhealthy cats. Fat cats indicate poor cat caretaking. I guess that is obvious. …
Marley weighed only 4 lbs. at rescue Furby gets B-Complex Cocoa then and now Misty loves Nutra-stat A cat lover tending to underweight cats has a very delicate job ahead of them. I won’t go into what causes a cat to be malnourished or underweight (Michael did a page on that: cat losing weight). …
by Kiriaki (Athens, Greece ) My silver Persian who is nine years old lost has around 1.5 kg weight in the last weeks. He does not eat any food or at just a bit. He drinks water and goes to the cat litter. I went with him to the vet and she did blood …
Moe a famous fat cat – photo by danperry.com Generally, a healthy cat weight is between 9 and 12 pounds for a male cat and between 7 and 10 pounds for a female cat (book No 5– See: Methods and References (new window) for the philosophy behind presenting medical information and references used). Another …
by Finn Frode (Copenhagen, Denmark) Clauz in The Guiness Book of Records, 1970 According to the Danish version of the 1970 Guiness Book of Records, the fattest cat known at that time was Clauz, a tabby tom living in San Francisco around 1950. In that year Clauz was 8 years old and weighed 18 …
by Michael (London, UK) People want to see a cat weight chart to assist them in checking whether their cat is the correct weight and if not to see if their cat is fat or obese, slender or plain thin and underweight. It is not possible to produce a weight chart that contains actual …
by Michelle (WI) Snowball Snowball is 21, an indoor cat, and weighed 18 pounds until recently. About 2 months ago he began loosing weight and his hunger increased. I took him to his vet and the usual blood and stool tests were performed. All the results came back either negative or within normal ranges. …
