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Lifer
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Originally posted by: joecool
i have two cats and have the same problem with the younger one - he's a complete fatass and can't lick his butt. it's completely disgusting. personally i'd love nothing more than to get rid of both of 'em, i don't really enjoy having my expensive and nice house being turned into a giant litter box! but the wife and kids will never let me do this. problem is, we can't cut back on food for the fatso cause he steals food from the other cat, who is old and weak. if we put less food out she'd starve - which would be fine with me - but not really an option. i'll tell you what, tho, this whole experience has turned me off of pets completely. when this fatso dies (which will probably be 15+ years from now, we'll have had cats for 25 years by then), i've already told me wife i have earned at least 20 years of pet-free living!
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What the hell... are you the laziest cat owners on the planet? If one cat is eating the other's food then you have to give them specific meal times and separate them while they are eating.

To the OP... as for "diets", it is very rare that diet food really will help much. Certainly in your average dry food, diet food is actually going to be worse. The best way to put your cat on a "diet" is by switching to a high quality wet food. Wet foods tend to have a much higher percentage of protein, whereas dry food is often up to 50% carbs.

Diet foods often reduce calories by removing things that the cat needs. So the cat ends up needing to eat more diet food to equal the same amount of necessary nutrition.

Your cat looks very similar to my cat. It creeped me out until I noticed that your cat doesn't have the little brown patch below her nose that mine does. Otherwise they look eerily similar. Mine weights 13 lbs and is somewhat overweight. She is still able to reach around and clean herself, though.

The butt dragging is more than the cat being overweight. First off, I am wondering if your cats don't get along, because cats will often groom each other to take care of such problems. Secondly, it could be that her diet is incosistent and causing problems with her stool. But more than likely as mentioned above it is a behavioral thing in response to a physical thing.
 
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Linflas

Lifer
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Have you taken the cat to the vet? That behavior can indicate any number of things that could be wrong other than just worms.
 
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Eli

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LMFAO!!!!!!!!

I'm sorry I don't have any advice, but that's the most f'in hilarious thing I've heard all day, possibly all week.
 
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miri

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Take her to the vet and find out why her poop is watery. My cat has hair that is 100x longer than that and has no streaks. Cat poop should be solid and should not stick to their but hairs.
 
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BooGiMaN

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i say cat diapers....


then again i dont own pets for this reason...no way i could or would put up with this stuff....
 
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SilentVixen

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At least your cat isn't as "special" as one of mine. His favorite thing to do is step in his $hit and then run around on my carpet. I taught the lil b@$t@rd by throwing him in the tub with lots of water for about a half hour!
 
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