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But he was such a tiny kitty cat.

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Originally posted by: tyler811
Found him in a snow bank 4 years ago behind the place where I work. Frozen solid his temperature was 25 degrees below normal. Cost $300 to get him back to normal but well worth it



My cat
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You make it sound like you took him to a mechanic.
 
Originally posted by: meltdown75
my wife doesn't like cats 🙁

thanks for the kitty pics everyone! i shall live vicariously through your kittyness.
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Why not they are so much easier to take care then dogs. We have 2 dogs, one has cancer though only 2 months or less now to live :brokenheart: and love them both but when we travel they go with us. Kinda hard to find a hotel thats lets pets in. But then our cat always wants to play at around midnight or 1 am
 
Originally posted by: torpid
Originally posted by: ggnl
2 of my 3 cats are about 4 lbs heavier than they should be. I feed them measured amounts of good weight control food twice a day, and it has only managed to keep them from getting fatter than they already are.
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Is it dry food? If it's not one of the more natural / expensive brands then it is likely to do that. A lot of cheap foods make their "diet" food just have more carbs and less protein, which makes the cat eat more in addition to being an unhealthy amount of carbs. I had a lot of success with switching to a high protein wet diet. My fat cat lost about 2 lbs on this. Though the skinny one (actually they were both fat before, but this one started out skinny coming from the humane society) has remained the same.
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It's premium brand dry food (one of the cast won't eat wet food), 38% protein and low fat content. They are housecats, so the problem isn't the food, it's the lack of exercise. I attempt to keep them active with plenty of catnip toys and excercise via a laser pointer, but they are perfectly content to sleep all day.
 
Originally posted by: Triumph
Originally posted by: tyler811
Found him in a snow bank 4 years ago behind the place where I work. Frozen solid his temperature was 25 degrees below normal. Cost $300 to get him back to normal but well worth it



My cat
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You make it sound like you took him to a mechanic.
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Oh I am sorry no did not mean to convey that.
 
Originally posted by: ggnl
Originally posted by: torpid
Originally posted by: ggnl
2 of my 3 cats are about 4 lbs heavier than they should be. I feed them measured amounts of good weight control food twice a day, and it has only managed to keep them from getting fatter than they already are.
Click to expand...

Is it dry food? If it's not one of the more natural / expensive brands then it is likely to do that. A lot of cheap foods make their "diet" food just have more carbs and less protein, which makes the cat eat more in addition to being an unhealthy amount of carbs. I had a lot of success with switching to a high protein wet diet. My fat cat lost about 2 lbs on this. Though the skinny one (actually they were both fat before, but this one started out skinny coming from the humane society) has remained the same.
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It's premium brand dry food (one of the cast won't eat wet food), 38% protein and low fat content. They are housecats, so the problem isn't the food, it's the lack of exercise. I attempt to keep them active with plenty of catnip toys and excercise via a laser pointer, but they are perfectly content to sleep all day.
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Define premium brand. Anyway a good wet food is 80% protein. It's not the fat content, it's the carb content, which is probably at least 50% in dry foods. My cat gained 3 lbs on perhaps the most nutritious dry food out there (innova), and then lost 3 lbs on wet food.
 
Originally posted by: WannaFly
kitteh
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I named my cat after composers too, but I didn't choose their most well-known names.

I named one Sebastian after Johann Sebastian Bach.
I named the other Giovanni after Giovanni Pergolesi Batista. His Stabat Mater is one of my favorite pieces.
 
We had a cat who, in the prime of his life, was around 18 pounds. Very big and muscular. Then, he suffered a stroke, and just wasn't the same. All he did was eat and sleep. He would never move more than a few feet per day, and he ballooned into a 25 pound monster. He was enormous.
 
Our cat is fat. We've put her on a diet but she rebels, constantly begging for food whenever I'm near the closet its stored in. She even tries to wake us up early to get us to feed her (I feed her right before bed and right when we get up, a small amount when I get home from work). So I'm forced to punish her. (Put her inside the hole in the couch and stuff a pillow in to trap her there)
 
Originally posted by: PingSpike
Our cat is fat. We've put her on a diet but she rebels, constantly begging for food whenever I'm near the closet its stored in. She even tries to wake us up early to get us to feed her (I feed her right before bed and right when we get up, a small amount when I get home from work). So I'm forced to punish her. (Put her inside the hole in the couch and stuff a pillow in to trap her there)
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You should punish yourself for giving in 😛
 
Placeholder. I'll add pics of our kitteh Sugarbear later. And the name - you can blame my 10yo daughter for that. 😛
 
Originally posted by: ggnl
Originally posted by: torpid
Originally posted by: ggnl
2 of my 3 cats are about 4 lbs heavier than they should be. I feed them measured amounts of good weight control food twice a day, and it has only managed to keep them from getting fatter than they already are.
Click to expand...

Is it dry food? If it's not one of the more natural / expensive brands then it is likely to do that. A lot of cheap foods make their "diet" food just have more carbs and less protein, which makes the cat eat more in addition to being an unhealthy amount of carbs. I had a lot of success with switching to a high protein wet diet. My fat cat lost about 2 lbs on this. Though the skinny one (actually they were both fat before, but this one started out skinny coming from the humane society) has remained the same.
Click to expand...

It's premium brand dry food (one of the cast won't eat wet food), 38% protein and low fat content. They are housecats, so the problem isn't the food, it's the lack of exercise. I attempt to keep them active with plenty of catnip toys and excercise via a laser pointer, but they are perfectly content to sleep all day.
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get a dog...

 
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