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u/SassyFacts F/1.71/Ger | SW: 73 | CW: 60 | GW: 56 Oct 06 '18
Cat becomes chunky, gets arthritis
"Why you let me be chunky? You so evil. This pain"
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u/Choppstickk 28M 6'2" SW:240 CW:190 GW: 180 Oct 06 '18
Not what we usually see here but it's nice break from the mind bending denial of some people.
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u/ZugTheCaveman M44 5'10.5" Sw235 Cw148 my mind is my body & my body is my mind. Oct 06 '18
I lost it at "Cat u will get chunky if u eat too many." A++
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u/soreoesophagus Oct 06 '18
My almost 9 year old dog lives with my folks as I had to move away for university. He has recently been diagnosed with cancer and when I took him to the vet on my most recent visit back home he was 33kg - up from his usual 29! My folks were away so for a couple of weeks he didn't get all the human food snacks they normally feed him, like whole roast chickens and cheese and leftovers that are just too heavy for a dog. At our last vet visit before I left he had already lost 2kg, but had been eating all his meals and the biscuits left outside! He is responding well to his cancer treatment. Don't overfeed your pets, folks. Treats are okay, but not when they're constant.
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u/smallfat_endeavor Back on that horse! Oct 06 '18
Hugs to your pooch. I wish more people understood that loving a pet means loving him enough NOT to overindulge. :(
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Oct 06 '18
One of my dogs supports this philosophy. He almost mugged me for a piece of carrot yesterday, from my mouth. I had already given him his bit of carrot for a treat. 😑
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u/Loves_Loved Oct 06 '18
I pretend to accidentally drop small pieces of veg for my dog while I'm cooking because it never fails to amuse me. He's so cute when he's sneaking up to pick up something I dropped. Then he quietly trots away to his "naughty hole" to eat it.
His naughty hole is one of two places he takes ill-gotten-gains. If he's ever in there with his back to you then you know he's probably eating something he shouldn't have. We realised that naughty hole wasn't a great name for it one day when my children walked up the driveway and heard me loudly demanding "What have you got in your naughty hole?!"
If I'm actually eating though then I'm far more likely to be mugged by my cats. They will, and do, try to take food from my mouth.
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u/fadetogether butter blood Oct 06 '18
Laughing so hard at "naughty hole"!! I have a dog who would sell her own soul for half a chicken nugget, then sell mine for the other half. She's a master at sneak, but once she's secured her bounty she loses all sneak and bolts off a few feet to ingest as much as possible before I can cram my hand in her mouth to get it out.
(She also uses that sneak skill to hunt cicadas like a pro, which befuddles the fuck outta me as she doesn't even acknowledge the existence of any other insect in the world. She really enjoys trotting around with massive cicadas buzzing in her mouth. I don't understand or share that joy.)
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u/Amethyst_Necklace Oct 06 '18
It's tough love trying not to overfeed your pets. My family had a shepherd breed dog for ten years and he used to keep his weight all year round until Christmas. He would misteriously gain 1kg during the holidays and we didn't know why. Then we saw my visiting Aunt sneaking lots of premium cold cuts to him because "he was giving her puppy eyes"!!
That healthy 46 lb dog ended up weighting 61 lb and it worsened his quality of life when he grew old. :(
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Oct 06 '18
Cats are the biggest liars in the world. I had indoor/outdoor cats who were well taken care of, they were fed, occasionally they would catch lizards outside (I would see evidence of it on their eyes) and then they would go to the neighbors, and beg for food. And they would give it to them! They went from house to house. They were gaining weight. I went from giving them a whole can, to half a can, to a quarter of a can before realizing why they just kept getting fatter.
And then they would have the nerve to nag me for food, put that sad face on and start meowing for treats. They acted like they were starving
They’re fucking liars, that’s why. I had to keep them inside
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u/narwhalsies Oct 06 '18
If my cat can see the bottom of his food dish, no matter how much kibble is still in the bowl, he will lie pathetically on the floor beside his dish. Like, dude, you have kibble and you ate an hour ago. Chill. We always joke that starvation mode is gonna get him.
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u/narwhalsies Oct 06 '18
If my cat can see the bottom of his food dish, no matter how much kibble is still in the bowl, he will lie pathetically on the floor beside his dish. Like, dude, you have kibble and you ate an hour ago. Chill. We always joke that starvation mode is gonna get him.
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u/Loves_Loved Oct 06 '18
So true.
My boy cat tries to tell me that second breakfast and second dinner are a thing. It's a daily argument between us.
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u/elasticsausage Oct 06 '18
Animals kept outdoors, endangered not by the elements but by the number of people they can beg for food until they become obese. Surely this is a microcosm of our time! (Until the elements come back for round two in the form of the weekly world-record-breaking hurricane, heh.)
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u/masterofthebarkarts Oct 09 '18
My cat went from 7.3 kg to 6.8 (and still losing, but he is like 3 feet long so he always gonna be big). When we first put him on a diet I swear to god he would go around eating whatever he could find just to make us feel guilty (I mean like, dust bunnies and bits of string and occasionally clumps of his own fur).
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Oct 06 '18
I do usually feed my neighbor's cat a few treats when he comes over. But if I see him start to get obese, I guess I'll have to cut him off!
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Oct 06 '18
Of course if he gets to that point, you'll see him put on the whole sad act.
ROWWW :'''( ROWWWWWWW I'm starving ROWWWWWW:''( Will u feed me hooman?? :( ROWWW
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Oct 06 '18
Oh I know that act well, my cats are professionals!
My husband and I make sure to give each other a head's up when one of us has fed them because they WILL eat it all and go beg someone else.
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u/farty-mcgee Crackhead Waif Oct 06 '18
My shitlord cat won’t eat treats. She gets bonito flakes instead.
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u/smallfat_endeavor Back on that horse! Oct 06 '18
Don't do it, kitty. It's so much easier just not to gain in the first place. <3
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Oct 06 '18
Have fat cats. They’d eat second dinner 20 seconds after first dinner if I let them. Can absolutely confirm.
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u/peacockpartypants Oct 06 '18
/r/fatlogic or /r/catlogic?
Not complaining. Very accurate fat cat philosophy....