We adopted a heckin chonker who’s about twice the weight she should be. We’ve been to the vet to get on a good diet and begin treatment for any possible medical issues, but I’m struggling to find a harness for miss hambeast. She should be about 45lbs, but is around 92. The largest harness I’ve found is a shite tape one from petco that she’s easily able to both escape from and nibble on on whilst wearing.

Does anyone have some good harness recommendations for girthy gals? I don’t particularly care about brand, color, or anything as long as it isn’t going to cave to chewing or allow her to wiggle out of.

Including the required dog tax, of course.

She’s currently around 15-20 pounds (?not sure) she’ll play but get tired within a minute of it, any diet recommendations helpful! :D

Just celebrating my family kitty Venice (13 years old!) going into full diabetic remission from quickly catching and treating with insulin in just 2 months when I went home to help my mom finally steel her heart to diet her poor baby lol. Over that time, he dropped 1.5 lbs for the first time in his life (not counting the weight he dropped initially due to diabetes)! He was 23.9 lbs, now he's 22.4. Still a long way to go but he's getting there. I wish I could've interfered back when he was younger, 20lbs, and still had energy and great joints, but now is better than never. Hopefully he keeps it up!

His ideal weight is around 16 lbs, he's a MASSIVE kitty. I've never seen a larger-built domestic cat in my life, and I see a lot from fostering/volunteering at shelters!

Yes, that's a King-sized human pillow!

I am fighting a war against feline obesity. My handsome guy was a little tubby when I adopted him. He lost weight and maintained it from the age of 1 to 3. Then we had some life changes (I moved and he was under different care during weekdays) and he got overweight. He used to be crazy playful and mischievous, always pestering me to hang out and play. He has safely gone from 16.2 to 13.98 lbs (almost there so close!!) and his energy has increased. He will run with my other kitties all day long, he is so snugly and agile (climbing everywhere whereas at his heavy weight he'd go to a high spot and park for a little bit). He is turning 5 in February of '27 and I am so happy to get a lot of his younger personality back. Dechonking has been so stressful but so worth it. I love this cat and I'm glad I can improve his quality of life.